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The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)Clement, of Alexandria, Saint

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The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Name: The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Author: Clement, of Alexandria, Saint

Clement, of Alexandria, Saint

Theology -- Early works to 1800; Theology -- History -- Early Church, ca. 30-600

18. The Mosaic Law the fountain of all Ethics, and the source
          from which the Greeks drew theirs,                         47

    19. The true Gnostic is an imitator of God, especially in
          Beneficence,                                               57

    20. The true Gnostic exercises Patience and Self-restraint,      60

    21. Opinions of various Philosophers on the Chief Good,          71

    22. Plato’s Opinion, that the Chief Good consists in
          assimilation to God, and its agreement with Scripture,     74

    23. On Marriage,                                                 78


                               BOOK III.

    1. Basilidis Sententiam de Continentia et Nuptiis refutat,       84

    2. Carpocratis et Epiphanis Sententiam de Feminarum
         Communitate refutat,                                        86

    3. Quatenus Plato aliique e veteribus præiverint Marcionitis
         aliisque Hæreticis, qui a Nuptiis ideo abstinent quia
         Creaturam malam existimant et nasci Homines in Pœnam
         opinantur,                                                  89

    4. Quibus prætextibus utantur Hæretici ad omnis generis
         licentiam et libidinem exercendam,                          95

    5. Duo genera Hæreticorum notat: prius illorum qui omnia
         omnibus licere pronuntiant, quos refutat,                  102

    6. Secundum genus Hæreticorum aggreditur, illorum scilicet
         qui ex impia de deo omnium conditore Sententia,
         Continentiam exercent,                                     105

    7. Qua in re Christianorum Continentia eam quam sibi
         vindicant Philosophi antecellat,                           110

    8. Loca S. Scripturæ ab Hæreticis in vituperium Matrimonii
         adducta explicat; et primo verba Apostoli Rom. vi. 14,
         ab Hæreticorum perversa interpretatione vindicat,          112

    9. Dictum Christi ad Salomen exponit, quod tanquam in
         vituperium Nuptiarum prolatum Hæretici allegabant,         113

    10. Verba Christi Matt. xviii. 20, mystice exponit,             116

    11. Legis et Christi mandatum de non Concupiscendo exponit,     117

    12. Verba Apostoli 1 Cor. vii. 5, 39, 40, aliaque S. Scripturæ
          loca eodem spectantia explicat,                           121

    13. Julii Cassiani Hæretici verbis respondet; item loco quem ex
          Evangelio Apocrypho idem adduxerat,                       128

    14. 2 Cor. xi. 3, et Eph. iv. 24, exponit,                      129

    15. 1 Cor. vii. 1; Luc. xiv. 26; Isa. lvi. 2, 3, explicat,      130

    16. Jer. xx. 14; Job xiv. 3; Ps. l. 5; 1 Cor. ix. 27, exponit,  132

    17. Qui Nuptias et Generationem malas asserunt, ii et dei
          Creationem et ipsam evangelii Dispensationem vituperant,  133

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