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

Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson.

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And the same, tacitly vilifying the idolatry of the multitude, adds:--

"Base is every one who looks to opinion,

With the view of deriving any good from it."

We are not, then, to think of God according to the opinion of the multitude.

"For I do not think that secretly,

Imitating the guise of a scoundrel,

He would go to thy bed as a man,"

says Amphion to Antiope. And Sophocles plainly writes:--

"His mother Zeus espoused,

Not in the likeness of gold, nor covered

With swan's plumage, as the Pleuronian girl

He impregnated; but an out and out man."

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