Index for The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of

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"The Writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2" by Saint Clement of Alexandria is a theological treatise written in the late 19th century. This volume continues the exploration of early Christian thought and philosophy, delving into the nature of faith, knowledge, and the virtues that align with Christian doctrine. It seeks to argue against pagan philosophies and illustrate how elements of these beliefs could trace back to earlier sacred texts, emphasizing the interconnectedness of faith and knowledge. The opening of the volume begins with an introductory chapter that establishes the central theme: the Greeks, seen as intellectual pioneers, have, according to the author, imitated and distorted elements from earlier sacred traditions. Clement asserts that true knowledge comes only through faith, setting up the argument that faith is foundational to understanding God and truth. He introduces various philosophical concepts, critiques differing beliefs, and emphasizes how detrimental it is to overlook scriptural insights for pagan understandings. This initial exposition paves the way for the exploration of the essence of faith, its necessity for true knowledge, and its role in cultivating virtues that reflect both divine and human ethics. The argument serves not just to defend Christian beliefs but also aims to lead potential detractors toward a deeper understanding of the Christian faith. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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• THE WRITINGSOFCLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.
• CONTENTS.
• BOOK II.
• CHAPTER II.THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD CAN BE ATTAINED ONLY THROUGH FAITH.
• CHAPTER III.FAITH NOT A PRODUCT OF NATURE.
• CHAPTER IV.FAITH THE FOUNDATION OF ALL KNOWLEDGE.
• CHAPTER V.HE PROVES BY SEVERAL EXAMPLES THAT THE GREEKS DREW FROM THE SACRED WRITERS.
• CHAPTER VI.THE EXCELLENCE AND UTILITY OF FAITH.
• CHAPTER VII.THE UTILITY OF FEAR. OBJECTIONS ANSWERED.
• CHAPTER VIII.THE VAGARIES OF BASILIDES AND VALENTINUS AS TO FEAR BEING THE CAUSE OF THINGS.
• CHAPTER IX.THE CONNECTION OF THE CHRISTIAN VIRTUES.
• CHAPTER X.TO WHAT THE PHILOSOPHER APPLIES HIMSELF.
• CHAPTER XI.THE KNOWLEDGE WHICH COMES THROUGH FAITH THE SUREST OF ALL.
• CHAPTER XII.TWOFOLD FAITH.
• CHAPTER XIII.ON FIRST AND SECOND REPENTANCE.
• CHAPTER XIV.HOW A THING MAY BE INVOLUNTARY.
• CHAPTER XV.ON THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF VOLUNTARY ACTIONS, AND THE SINS THENCE PROCEEDING.
• CHAPTER XVI.HOW WE ARE TO EXPLAIN THE PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE WHICH ASCRIBE TO GOD HUMAN AFFECTIONS.
• CHAPTER XVII.ON THE VARIOUS KINDS OF KNOWLEDGE.
• CHAPTER XVIII.THE MOSAIC LAW THE FOUNTAIN OF ALL ETHICS, AND THE SOURCE FROM WHICH THE GREEKS DREW THEIRS.
• CHAPTER XIX.THE TRUE GNOSTIC IS AN IMITATOR OF GOD, ESPECIALLY IN BENEFICENCE.
• CHAPTER XX.THE TRUE GNOSTIC EXERCISES PATIENCE AND SELF-RESTRAINT.
• CHAPTER XXI.OPINIONS OF VARIOUS PHILOSOPHERS ON THE CHIEF GOOD.
• CHAPTER XXII.PLATO’S OPINION, THAT THE CHIEF GOOD CONSISTS IN ASSIMILATION TO GOD, AND ITS AGREEMENT WITH SCRIPTURE.
• CHAPTER XXIII.ON MARRIAGE.
• BOOK III.[262]
• CAPUT II.CARPOCRATIS ET EPIPHANIS SENTENTIAM DE FEMINARUM COMMUNITATE REFUTAT.
• CAPUT III.QUATENUS PLATO ALIIQUE E VETERIBUS PRÆIVERINT MARCIONITIS ALIISQUE HÆRETICIS, QUI A NUPTIIS IDEO ABSTINENT QUIA CREATURAM MALAM EXISTIMANT ET NASCI HOMINES IN PŒNAM OPINANTUR.
• CAPUT IV.QUIBUS PRÆTEXTIBUS UTANTUR HÆRETICI AD OMNIS GENERIS LICENTIAM ET LIBIDINEM EXERCENDAM.
• CAPUT V.DUO GENERA HÆRETICORUM NOTAT: PRIUS ILLORUM QUI OMNIA OMNIBUS LICERE PRONUNTIANT, QUOS REFUTAT.
• CAPUT VI.SECUNDUM GENUS HÆRETICORUM AGGREDITUR, ILLORUM SCILICET QUI EX IMPIA DE DEO OMNIUM CONDITORE SENTENTIA, CONTINENTIAM EXERCENT.
• CAPUT VII.QUA IN RE CHRISTIANORUM CONTINENTIA EAM QUAM SIBI VINDICANT PHILOSOPHI ANTECELLAT.
• CAPUT VIII.LOCA S. SCRIPTURÆ AB HÆRETICIS IN VITUPERIUM MATRIMONII ADDUCTA EXPLICAT; ET PRIMO VERBA APOSTOLI ROM. VI. 14, AB HÆRETICORUM PERVERSA INTERPRETATIONE VINDICAT.
• CAPUT IX.DICTUM CHRISTI AD SALOMEN EXPONIT, QUOD TANQUAM IN VITUPERIUM NUPTIARUM PROLATUM HÆRETICI ALLEGABANT.
• CAPUT X.VERBA CHRISTI MATT. XVIII. 20, MYSTICE EXPONIT.
• CAPUT XI.LEGIS ET CHRISTI MANDATUM DE NON CONCUPISCENDO EXPONIT.
• CAPUT XII.VERBA APOSTOLI 1 COR. VII. 5, 39, 40, ALIAQUE S. SCRIPTURÆ LOCA EODEM SPECTANTIA EXPLICAT.
• CAPUT XIII.JULII CASSIANI HÆRETICI VERBIS RESPONDET; ITEM LOCO QUEM EX EVANGELIO APOCRYPHO IDEM ADDUXERAT.
• CAPUT XIV.2 COR. XI. 3, ET EPH. IV. 24, EXPONIT.
• CAPUT XV.1 COR. VII. 1; LUC. XIV. 26; ISA. LVI. 2, 3, EXPLICAT.
• CAPUT XVI.JER. XX. 14; JOB XIV. 3; PS. L. 5; 1 COR. IX. 27, EXPONIT.
• CAPUT XVII.QUI NUPTIAS ET GENERATIONEM MALAS ASSERUNT, II ET DEI CREATIONEM ET IPSAM EVANGELII DISPENSATIONEM VITUPERANT.
• CAPUT XVIII.DUAS EXTREMAS OPINIONES ESSE VITANDAS: PRIMAM ILLORUM QUI CREATORIS ODIO A NUPTIIS ABSTINENT; ALTERAM ILLORUM QUI HINC OCCASIONEM ARRIPIUNT NEFARIIS LIBIDINIBUS INDULGENDI.
• BOOK IV.
• CHAPTER II.THE MEANING OF THE NAME STROMATA [MISCELLANIES].
• CHAPTER III.THE TRUE EXCELLENCE OF MAN.
• CHAPTER IV.THE PRAISES OF MARTYRDOM.
• CHAPTER V.ON CONTEMPT FOR PAIN, POVERTY, AND OTHER EXTERNAL THINGS.
• CHAPTER VI.SOME POINTS IN THE BEATITUDES.
• CHAPTER VII.THE BLESSEDNESS OF THE MARTYR.
• CHAPTER VIII.WOMEN AS WELL AS MEN, SLAVES AS WELL AS FREEMEN, CANDIDATES FOR THE MARTYR’S CROWN.
• CHAPTER IX.CHRIST’S SAYINGS RESPECTING MARTYRDOM.
• CHAPTER X.THOSE WHO OFFERED THEMSELVES FOR MARTYRDOM REPROVED.
• CHAPTER XI.THE OBJECTION, WHY DO YOU SUFFER IF GOD CARES FOR YOU, ANSWERED.
• CHAPTER XII.BASILIDES’ IDEA OF MARTYRDOM REFUTED.
• CHAPTER XIII.VALENTINIAN’S VAGARIES ABOUT THE ABOLITION OF DEATH REFUTED.
• CHAPTER XIV.THE LOVE OF ALL, EVEN OF OUR ENEMIES.
• CHAPTER XV.ON AVOIDING OFFENCE.
• CHAPTER XVI.PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE RESPECTING THE CONSTANCY, PATIENCE, AND LOVE OF THE MARTYRS.
• CHAPTER XVII.PASSAGES FROM CLEMENT’S EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS ON MARTYRDOM.
• CHAPTER XVIII.ON LOVE, AND THE REPRESSING OF OUR DESIRES.
• CHAPTER XIX.WOMEN AS WELL AS MEN CAPABLE OF PERFECTION.
• CHAPTER XX.A GOOD WIFE.
• CHAPTER XXI.DESCRIPTION OF THE PERFECT MAN, OR GNOSTIC.
• CHAPTER XXII.THE TRUE GNOSTIC DOES GOOD, NOT FROM FEAR OF PUNISHMENT OR HOPE OF REWARD, BUT ONLY FOR THE SAKE OF GOOD ITSELF.
• CHAPTER XXIII.THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.
• CHAPTER XXIV.THE REASON AND END OF DIVINE PUNISHMENTS.
• CHAPTER XXV.TRUE PERFECTION CONSISTS IN THE KNOWLEDGE AND LOVE OF GOD.
• CHAPTER XXVI.HOW THE PERFECT MAN TREATS THE BODY AND THE THINGS OF THE WORLD.
• BOOK V.
• CHAPTER II.ON HOPE.
• CHAPTER III.THE OBJECTS OF FAITH AND HOPE PERCEIVED BY THE MIND ALONE.
• CHAPTER IV.DIVINE THINGS WRAPPED UP IN FIGURES BOTH IN THE SACRED AND IN HEATHEN WRITERS.
• CHAPTER V.ON THE SYMBOLS OF PYTHAGORAS.
• CHAPTER VI.THE MYSTIC MEANING OF THE TABERNACLE AND ITS FURNITURE.
• CHAPTER VII.THE EGYPTIAN SYMBOLS AND ENIGMAS OF SACRED THINGS.
• CHAPTER VIII.THE USE OF THE SYMBOLIC STYLE BY POETS AND PHILOSOPHERS.
• CHAPTER IX.REASONS FOR VEILING THE TRUTH IN SYMBOLS.
• CHAPTER X.THE OPINION OF THE APOSTLES ON VEILING THE MYSTERIES OF THE FAITH.
• CHAPTER XI.ABSTRACTION FROM MATERIAL THINGS NECESSARY IN ORDER TO ATTAIN TO THE TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD.
• CHAPTER XII.GOD CANNOT BE EMBRACED IN WORDS OR BY THE MIND.
• CHAPTER XIII.THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD A DIVINE GIFT, ACCORDING TO THE PHILOSOPHERS.
• CHAPTER XIV.GREEK PLAGIARISMS FROM THE HEBREWS.
• Chapter 85
• BOOK VI.
• CHAPTER II.THE SUBJECT OF PLAGIARISMS RESUMED. THE GREEKS PLAGIARIZED FROM ONE ANOTHER.
• Chapter 88
• CHAPTER III.PLAGIARISM BY THE GREEKS OF THE MIRACLES RELATED IN THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE HEBREWS.
• CHAPTER IV.THE GREEKS DREW MANY OF THEIR PHILOSOPHICAL TENETS FROM THE EGYPTIAN AND INDIAN GYMNOSOPHISTS.
• CHAPTER V.THE GREEKS HAD SOME KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUE GOD.
• CHAPTER VI.THE GOSPEL WAS PREACHED TO JEWS AND GENTILES IN HADES.
• CHAPTER VII.WHAT TRUE PHILOSOPHY IS, AND WHENCE SO CALLED.
• CHAPTER VIII.PHILOSOPHY IS KNOWLEDGE GIVEN BY GOD.
• CHAPTER IX.THE GNOSTIC FREE OF ALL PERTURBATIONS OF THE SOUL.
• CHAPTER X.THE GNOSTIC AVAILS HIMSELF OF THE HELP OF ALL HUMAN KNOWLEDGE.
• CHAPTER XI.THE MYSTICAL MEANINGS IN THE PROPORTIONS OF NUMBERS, GEOMETRICAL RATIOS, AND MUSIC.
• CHAPTER XII.HUMAN NATURE POSSESSES AN ADAPTATION FOR PERFECTION; THE GNOSTIC ALONE ATTAINS IT.
• CHAPTER XIII.DEGREES OF GLORY IN HEAVEN CORRESPONDING WITH THE DIGNITIES OF THE CHURCH BELOW.
• CHAPTER XIV.DEGREES OF GLORY IN HEAVEN.
• CHAPTER XV.DIFFERENT DEGREES OF KNOWLEDGE.
• CHAPTER XVI.GNOSTIC EXPOSITION OF THE DECALOGUE.
• CHAPTER XVII.PHILOSOPHY CONVEYS ONLY AN IMPERFECT KNOWLEDGE OF GOD.
• CHAPTER XVIII.THE USE OF PHILOSOPHY TO THE GNOSTIC.
• BOOK VII.
• CHAPTER II.THE SON THE RULER AND SAVIOUR OF ALL.
• CHAPTER III.THE GNOSTIC AIMS AT THE NEAREST LIKENESS POSSIBLE TO GOD AND HIS SON.
• CHAPTER IV.THE HEATHENS MADE GODS LIKE THEMSELVES, WHENCE SPRINGS ALL SUPERSTITION.
• CHAPTER V.THE HOLY SOUL A MORE EXCELLENT TEMPLE THAN ANY EDIFICE BUILT BY MAN.
• CHAPTER VI.PRAYERS AND PRAISE FROM A PURE MIND, CEASELESSLY OFFERED, FAR BETTER THAN SACRIFICES.
• CHAPTER VII.WHAT SORT OF PRAYER THE GNOSTIC EMPLOYS, AND HOW IT IS HEARD BY GOD.
• CHAPTER VIII.THE GNOSTIC SO ADDICTED TO TRUTH AS NOT TO NEED TO USE AN OATH.
• CHAPTER IX.THOSE WHO TEACH OTHERS, OUGHT TO EXCEL IN VIRTUES.
• CHAPTER X.STEPS TO PERFECTION.
• CHAPTER XI.DESCRIPTION OF THE GNOSTIC’S LIFE.
• CHAPTER XII.THE TRUE GNOSTIC IS BENEFICENT, CONTINENT, AND DESPISES WORLDLY THINGS.
• CHAPTER XIII.DESCRIPTION OF THE GNOSTIC CONTINUED.
• CHAPTER XIV.DESCRIPTION OF THE GNOSTIC FURNISHED BY AN EXPOSITION OF 1 COR. VI. 1, ETC.
• CHAPTER XV.THE OBJECTION TO JOIN THE CHURCH ON ACCOUNT OF THE DIVERSITY OF HERESIES ANSWERED.
• CHAPTER XVI.SCRIPTURE THE CRITERION BY WHICH TRUTH AND HERESY ARE DISTINGUISHED.
• CHAPTER XVII.THE TRADITION OF THE CHURCH PRIOR TO THAT OF THE HERESIES.
• CHAPTER XVIII.THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN CLEAN AND UNCLEAN ANIMALS IN THE LAW SYMBOLICAL OF THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE CHURCH, AND JEWS, AND HERETICS.
• BOOK VIII.
• CHAPTER II.THE NECESSITY OF PERSPICUOUS DEFINITION.
• CHAPTER III.DEMONSTRATION DEFINED.
• CHAPTER IV.TO PREVENT AMBIGUITY, WE MUST BEGIN WITH CLEAR DEFINITION.
• CHAPTER V.APPLICATION OF DEMONSTRATION TO SCEPTICAL SUSPENSE OF JUDGMENT.
• CHAPTER VI.DEFINITIONS, GENERA, AND SPECIES.
• CHAPTER VII.ON THE CAUSES OF DOUBT OR ASSENT.
• CHAPTER VIII.THE METHOD OF CLASSIFYING THINGS AND NAMES.
• CHAPTER IX.ON THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF CAUSES.
• INDEXES.
• II.—INDEX OF SUBJECTS FORMALLY OR INCIDENTALLY CONSIDERED.
• Chapter 134
• FOOTNOTES:
• Chapter 136
• Chapter 137
• Chapter 138
• Chapter 139
• Chapter 140
• Chapter 141
• Chapter 142
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• Chapter 144

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