CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.
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INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
[INCLUDING THE INTRODUCTIONS AND NOTES.].
Abstraction from material things, necessary to the knowledge of divine truth, 460.
Advent of Christ, precursors of, 519.
abuse of the term by heretics, 403.
Alexandria, centre of Christian culture, 165.
Alms, how given and received, 578.
Amusements, good and bad, 289.
public (spectacles), forbidden, 290.
Anacharsis, forbids heathen mysteries, 177.
Angels, spiritual beings, 493.
inferior, given to Gentiles, 524.
Animals, clean and unclean, signification of, 556.
Apostles, how chosen, 514, 532.
Art, wisdom given by God, 304.
Arts, invented by Hebrews, 317.
Baptism, of Christ, effect of, 215.
Christian, names and effects, 215-216.
with faith and repentance, 217.
for the remission of sins, 222, 361.
first of Christian mysteries, 461.
of the apostles, tradition of, 578.
Barnabas, St., an apostle, 354-355.
quoted, 355, 362, 366, 372, 459.
Basilides, heretic, errors of, 355, 358, 381, 423, 437, 440, 445.
Bean, prohibited by Pythagoras, 385, 402.
Beatitudes, true teaching of, 413, 441.
“Because of the angels,” interpreted, 578.
Beetle, fable concerning, 449, 484.
Blood, symbol of the Word, 221.
Body, Christian, temple of God, 584.
Bread, symbol of the Word, 221.
Britain, legend of musical cave, 487.
Bunsen, Baron, Hippolytus, 297, 443.
Candlestick, the golden, symbol of the Holy Spirit, 452, 477.
Carpocratians, their heresies and practice, 383, 403.
Causes, defined and classified, 565-567.
Children, Christ’s name for his disciples, 212-213.
applied to those under the Law, 217.
nourished by the milk of the Word, 218.
Christian life, a system of reasonable actions, 235.
precepts of, in Scripture, 291-295.
Chronology of Holy Scripture, 325-334, 346.
Church, Catholic, unity of, 555.
Jewish and Christian, one, 369.
earthly, image of heavenly, 421.
Clement of Alexandria, a reformer, 165.
pupil and successor of Pantænus, 166.
teacher of philosophic Christianity, 380.
his knowledge of Hebrew questioned, 439, 443, 446, 484.
Clement of Rome, St., an apostle, 428.
Clothing, Christian use of, 263.
Commandments, the two great, 599.
Concupiscence, forbidden by the law and by Christ, 394. (See Covetousness.)
Confession of Christ, public, 421.
Continence, heretical opinions of, refuted, 381.
of Christians more excellent than of philosophers, 391.
in all things, not one only, 392.
Contrition, the only true penitence, 416.
Covetousness. (See Concupiscence.)
Creation, why not repeated, 584.
Crowns, floral, not used by Christians, 255.
Culture, Greek, useful to Christians, 307.
necessary for understanding Scripture, 310.
Customs, heathen, to be forsaken, 197-199.
debasing effects of, 200-201, 205-206.
overcome by divine truth, 201-202.
Death, Christian philosophy of, 411.
errors of Valentinus, concerning, 425.
omissions in interpretation of, 515, 522.
Deception, permitted by the sophists, 538.
Definitions of terms, necessary, 556, 561.
philosophical, nature, and classification, 562-563.
Degrees, in heaven, corresponding to order in the church, 505.
of knowledge, true Gnostic only perfect in, 507.
Democritus, on the idea of God, 465, 486.
produces scientific belief, 559.
first principles indemonstrable, 559.
dilemma of suspense of judgment, 562.
Dialectics, a means to true wisdom, 340.
Disciplina arcani, true nature of, 343-344.
p. 620Dispensations, the seven, 476-477.
Doubt and assent, causes of, 564.
Dove, emblem of the Holy Spirit, 578.
Dress, heathen luxury in, forbidden to Christian women, 273.
Drinking, Christian principles of, 242.
Eating, luxury in, heathen, 237.
Christian temperance in, 239-242.
Elect, illustrated by Abraham, 445.
Electa, lady to whom St. John’s Second Epistle was written, 577.
Elijah, example of frugality, 281.
Emblems, Christian, in the Catacombs, 297.
Empedocles, quoted, 384-385, 403, 446, 464, 466.
opinion on community of women, 403.
Esoteric doctrine, use of, 302, 313, 343. 345.
received according to reason, 310.
heretics celebrate with water, 322.
Euripides, quoted, 384-385, 403, 469.
Evil, not sought for itself, 319.
Exhortation, The, of Clement, object of, 167.
Faith, possible without learning, 307, 345.
only means to the knowledge of God, 349.
taught by Scripture to Greek philosophy, 352.
leads to repentance, hope, benevolence, 353, 357.
faith, not opinion, foundation of knowledge, 359.
twofold, relating to memory and hope, 360.
necessary to justification, 444.
saving, manifested by works, 505.
Fathers, apostolical, quoted, 348, 355, 357, 360, 362, 366, 422, 428, 460, 495-496, 510.
Figurative teaching of Scripture and philosophy, 450.
Filthy speaking and acts, reproved, 250.
Free-will, the original of sin, 319, 362-363.
necessary to faith and repentance, 349.
proofs of, 424, 426, 437, 502, 524.
power of choosing salvation, 441.
source of obedience, 519, 527-528.
Friendship, how threefold, 369.
Frugality, a mark of Christian living, 280.
Geometry, mystery of, 499-501.
Gnosis, true wisdom, revealed by God, 494.
Gnostic, true (Christian), as defined by Clement, 342.
his contempt for pain and poverty, 412.
trained by Christian knowledge, 433, 438.
seeks good for itself, 434-437.
philosophic testimony to, 436.
how regards earthly things, 439.
freed from passion and perturbation, 496.
conjectures things future, 501, 521.
alone attains perfection, 502.
represses sensual desire, 503.
attains likeness to Christ, 526.
made perfect in knowledge, 539.
his self-restraint in lawful things, 543.
long-suffering and forgiveness, 548.
Gnostics, false, tendency of, 380.
God, known by science only as manifested in Christ, 438.
incomprehensible by human mind, 463.
knowledge of, a divine gift, 464.
this shown by philosophers, 464-465.
how far revealed to the heathen, 474-475.
knowledge of, in Greek philosophy, 489.
Gods of the heathen, their wickedness, 179-182.
cruelty of their worship, 183.
Goodness, divine, not inconsistent with justice, 225-227.
Grafting, illustrative of conversion, 507.
Greek, language of Christianity, 166.
type of early Christianity, 379.
Gymnosophists of India, answers of, 488.
Hades, Christ preached to Jews in, and apostles to Gentiles, 490.
Hair, may be trimmed, but not dyed, 286.
Hebrew names, meaning of, 439, 443, 446, 476.
Hebrews, Epistle to, translated by St. Luke, 579.
why not subscribed by St. Paul, 442, 579.
Heraclitus, quoted, 384-385, 403, 446.
Heresies, no argument against Christian belief, 550.
Heretics, their pretexts for licentiousness, 385.
claim all carnal things as lawful, 388.
first heretics post-apostolic, 555-556.
St. John’s course regarding, 577.
Hermas, Shepherd of, quoted, 348, 357, 360, 422, 510.
Herodotus, quoted, 384-385, 403.
Homer, quoted, 384-385, 403, 469.
Hope, Christian, witnessed to by philosophers, 447.
Household life, habits of, 251.
evening, of Greek Christians, 298.
Images, heathen, shameful, 184-188.
Incarnation of Christ, benefits of, 202-204, 601.
Instruction, Christian, meaning of, 223.
given through the Law by the Word, 224, 234.
Iota and tittle, meaning of, 578.
Isaac, type of Christian joy, 214.
tradition of his martyrdom, 579.
the Just, Bishop of Jerusalem, 579.
Jarvis, Dr. S. F., Church of the Redeemed, 477.
his Second Epistle interpreted, 577.
St. John and the robber, story of, 603-604.
John Baptist, St., voice of the Word, 174.
Jude, St., his relationship to our Lord, 573.
Kaye, Bishop, analysis of St. Clement’s Miscellanies, 342.
Kiss of charity, abuse of, 291.
Knowledge, true, defined, 349-350, 364.
twofold, by apprehension and reason, 480.
of God, in Greek philosophy, 489.
philosophy and heresies, aids to, 509.
Law, penalty of, beneficent, 339.
natural and revealed, one, and divine, 341.
divine, teacher of philosophy, 367.
Lord’s day, illustrated by Greek authors, 469.
day of Christ’s resurrection, 545.
Love, Christian, how fulfils the law, 414.
represses sensual passion, 430.
Luxury, household, forbidden to p. 621 Christians, 247.
Maiden, the model, described by Zeno, 289.
Man, pre-existent in the Divine Mind, 210.
Manliness, true Christian, 365.
Marcion, heretic, 384-385, 403, 445.
Mark, St., disciple of St. Peter, 561.
Marriage, lawful use of, 259-263.
nature, conditions, and duty of, 377.
single commended, second permitted, 382, 403.
heretical perversions of Scripture regarding, 395, 398.
errors of Cassian refuted, 399.
its purity taught in Holy Scripture, 400, 403.
depravation of it a reproach to the Creator, 400, 403.
two heretical views of marriage to be shunned, 401.
true philosophy of, 402, 403-407.
Martha of Bethany, Christ’s rebuke of, 594.
Martyrdom, why to be desired, 411, 423.
heathen, falsely so named, 412.
philosophy testifies to, 418-419.
sex and condition of martyrs, 420.
errors of Basilides on, 423-424.
Menander, witness to Scripture, 446.
Milk, symbol of spiritual nourishment, 218-222.
Miracles of Christ, mystery of, 501.
Mixed cup in the Eucharist, 242.
Mosaic Law, a preparation for Christ, 339.
lawgiver and general, 336-338.
Music, sanctified to God, 248.
instrumental, not Christian, 249.
Mustard seed, parable of, interpreted, 578.
Mysteries, Christian, why celebrated by night, 435.
Eleusinian, vileness of, 175-177.
Mythology, heathen, absurd and impious, 175-177, 520.
Names, conceptions and subjects (philosophical) classified, 564.
New creation in Christ, meaning of, 594.
Nicetas, commentary on Job, quoted, 577.
Nicolas, deacon, name and teaching abused by Nicolaitans, 385.
Numbers, mystery of, 499, 521.
symbols of, in the Decalogue, 512-514.
Occupations of Christians, 282.
Ornaments, unsuited to Christians, 267-270.
Pœdagogus, The, of Clement, object and contents of, 167.
Pantænus, teacher at Alexandria, 165-167, 343.
Parables of our Lord, mystery of, 501-502.
interpreted,—of the Labourers, 415.
Prodigal Son, sermon on, 581-589.
Passover (last) of our Lord, date of, 565.
Paul, St., late witness of Old-Testament truth, 434, 442.
Pearl, parable of, interpreted, 578.
Perfection, distinct from completeness, 459, 478.
possible to human nature, 502.
attained by the true Gnostic alone, 502.
Persecution, how understood, 598.
Peter, St., tradition of his wife’s martyrdom, 541.
Philo Judæus, his interpretation of Scripture history, 306.
Philosophers, heathen, opinions of, respecting God, 190.
taught truth by the Scriptures, 191-192.
opinions on the chief good, 374.
Christian, self-restraint of, 370.
Philosophy, use of, in Christian teaching, 303.
Greek, a preparation for Christ, 305, 321-323, 347-348.
what is true philosophy, 308, 311.
sects of, contain half-truths, 313.
Greek, foreign sources of, 314-317.
posterior to the Mosaic Law, 324-333, 341.
true philosophy seeks God, 358-359, 369.
taught by divine law in piety, charity, justice, purity, 367.
taught highest good by Scripture, 375
and other things by the same, 465, 478.
object of true philosophy, 493.
gift of God to Jew and Greek, 495, 517, 521.
cannot give perfect knowledge of God, 515.
but a preparation for such knowledge, 516.
Greek, a recreation to the Gnostic, 517.
Pictures, heathen, their licentiousness, 189.
Plagiarism, of Greek poets from each other, 481-483.
of philosophers and historians, 484-486.
of Greeks from Hebrew Scriptures, 486-488.
of philosophers, from Egypt and India, 488.
Plato, on language of animals, 333.
falsely quoted by heretics, on community of women, and depravation of the natural creation, 382, 403.
on future rewards, 416, 436, 442.
witness to Scripture, 446, 470, 479.
philosophic teaching from Scripture, 466, 469.
illustrating the Trinity, 468.
Poets, heathen, testimony to the truth, 193.
Prayer of St. Clement to the Pœdagogus, 295.
Predestination, ground of, 497, 524.
Priesthood of Christians, 572.
Prophets, the, teachers of the truth, 194-195.
teach by parables and enigmas, 510, 522.
Providence, special, to be believed, 312.
Punishment, a mark of God’s love, 226.
a means of salvation, 228-230.
Purity, law of, 259, 317, 348, 433.
Pythagoreans, falsely quoted against marriage, 385, 403.
sayings of Theano, 417, 431, 441-442.
Regeneration of Christians by the Word, 357.
Repentance, first and second, 361.
Riches, true Christian, 279, 596, 600.
impresses a likeness to God, 504.
in what sense attained through philosophy, 305, 323, 345-346.
Rings, for the ears, forbidden, 285.
for the hands, how allowed, 285.
Ruler, the young, character of, 594.
Sabbath, Jewish, right keeping of, 302.
Sacrifices, heathen, cruelty of, 183.
sacrifices of prayer and praise, 532.
Salome, apocryphal sayings of Christ to, 392.
Samaritan, good, signifies Christ, 599.
Scripture, holy, chronology of, 325-334.
threefold interpretation of, 341.
Segaar, Charles, annotator of St. Clement, 605.
Self-restraint of Christian philosophers, 370.
Septuagint, date and origin of, 334.
Servants, how kept by heathen, 278.
p. 622Servants, how treated by Christians, 288.
Sex, no distinction of, in instruction, 211.
Sibyl, the, testimony to the truth, 192, 194, 346.
Similitudes in instruction, use of, 281.
Sin, voluntary and involuntary, 361.
not to be predicated of the divine nature, 363.
Socrates, on future rewards, 436, 442.
Sodomites, sin and punishment of, 282.
Son of God, Saviour and Lord of all, 524.
Sophists, foolishness of, 304, 309.
Sophocles, witness to Scripture, 446.
Speech, subordinate to action, 310.
Spirits in prison, preached to, 490.
Stationary days, fasts of, 544.
Stromata, The, of Clement, object and character of, 168.
Symbols, Pythagorean, in philosophic proverbs, 450.
of philosophical language, 455.
Jewish, do not sanction image worship, 453, 477.
Tabernacle and its furniture, symbolic meaning of, 452.
Tatian on marriage, errors of, 396, 403-407.
Teachers of St. Clement, 301-302.
Teaching, right motives in, 300.
Temple furniture, symbolism of, 585.
Temples, in what sense holy, 530.
Theano the Pythagorean, sayings of, 417, 431, 441-442.
Timothy, Epistle to, rejected by certain heretics, 359.
Tithes and firstfruits, maintenance of priests under the Law, 363.
Tradition of doctrine from the apostles, 301, 343.
Trinity, doctrine of, illustrated by Plato, 468.
Truth, divine, contrasted with heathen fable, 171.
attained through faith, as the gift of God, 519.
object of true philosophy, 556.
Unbelief, sin and danger of, 195-197.
Unity of Jew and Greek in Christ, 504.
“Unknown God,” Athenian inscription to, 464, 478.
Valentinus, heretic, errors of, 355, 359, 425, 445.
Vestments of the high priest, symbolism of, 453.
Wife, character of a good, 432.
Wine, how used by Christians, 243.
how abused to drunkenness, 244.
Wisdom, object of true philosophy, 492.
Witnesses, three earthly, interpreted, 576.
Women, right adorning of, 287.
examples of perfection in, 431.
Word, the, pre-existent, incarnate, teacher, 173.
restorer and guide of man, 209.
symbolized by milk, 219, by bread and by blood, 221.
Xenocrates, on the idea of God, 465, 486.
Zeno, description of a model maiden, 289.
Zephaniah (apocryphal), vision of heaven, 462.
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