Clement of Alexandria: STROMATA (MISCELLANIES), Part IV, Complete

Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson.

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And the same again:--

"If thee Prometheus formed,

And thou art not of other clay."

Hesiod says of Pandora:--

"And bade Hephaestus, famed, with all his speed,

Knead earth with water, and man's voice and mind

Infuse."

The Stoics, accordingly, define nature to be artificial fire, advancing systematically to generation. And God and His Word are by Scripture figuratively termed fire and light. But how? Does not Homer himself, is not Homer himself, paraphrasing the retreat of the water from the land, and the clear uncovering of the dry land, when he says of Tethys and Oceanus:--

"For now for a long time they abstain from

Each other's bed and love?" [3123]

[3122] monon en te polei is here supplied from Plato. [Note in Migne.]

[3123] Iliad, xiv. 206.

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