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

Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson.

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Again, power in all things is by the most intellectual among the Greeks ascribed to God; Epicharmus--he was a Pythagorean--saying:--

"Nothing escapes the divine. This it behoves thee to know.

He is our observer. To God nought is impossible."

And the lyric poet:--

"And God from gloomy night

Can raise unstained light,

And can in darksome gloom obscure

The day's refulgence pure."

He alone who is able to make night during the period of day is God.

In the Phoenomena Aratus writes thus:--

"With Zeus let us begin; whom let us ne'er,

Being men, leave unexpressed. All full of Zeus,

The streets, and throngs of men, and full the sea,

And shores, and everywhere we Zeus enjoy."

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