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

Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson.

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He adds:--

"For we also are

His offspring; . . . . "

that is, by creation.

"Who, bland to men,

Propitious signs displays, and to their tasks

Arouses. For these signs in heaven He fixed,

The constellations spread, and crowned the year

With stars; to show to men the seasons' tasks,

That all things may proceed in order sure.

Him ever first, Him last too, they adore:

Hail Father, marvel great--great boon to men."

And before him, Homer, framing the world in accordance with Moses on the Vulcan-wrought shield, says:--

"On it he fashioned earth, and sky, and sea,

And all the signs with which the heaven is crowned." [3124]

[3124] Iliad, xviii, 483.

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