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

Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson.

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He further proceeds, and adds:--

"And quick the adulterer stood on the bridal steps."

Then he details still more plainly the licentiousness of the fabled Zeus:--

"But he nor food nor cleansing water touched,

But heart-stung went to bed, and that whole night

Wantoned."

But let these be resigned to the follies of the theatre.

Heraclius plainly says: "But of the word which is eternal men are not able to understand, both before they have heard it, and on first hearing it." And the lyrist Melanippides says in song:--

"Hear me, O Father, Wonder of men,

Ruler of the ever-living soul."

And Parmenides the great, as Plato says in the Sophist, writes of God thus:--

"Very much, since unborn and indestructible He is,

Whole, only-begotten, and immoveable, and unoriginated."

Hesiod also says:--

"For He of the immortals all is King and Lord.

With God [3136] none else in might may strive."

[3136] This is quoted in Exhortation to the Heathen, p. 192, ch. vii. The reading varies, and it has been variously amended. Theo is substituted above for seo. Perhaps the simplest of the emendations proposed on this passage is the change of seo into soi, with Thee.

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