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

Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson.

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And Euripides on the stage, in tragedy, says:--

"Dost thou this lofty, boundless Ether see,

Which holds the earth around in the embrace

Of humid arms? This reckon Zeus,

And this regard as God."

And in the drama of Pirithous, the same writes those lines in tragic vein:--

"Thee, self-sprung, who on Ether's wheel

Hast universal nature spun,

Around whom Light and dusky spangled Night,

The countless host of stars, too, ceaseless dance."

For there he says that the creative mind is self-sprung. What follows applies to the universe, in which are the opposites of light and darkness.

Aeschylus also, the son of Euphorion, says with very great solemnity of God:--

"Ether is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven;

The universe is Zeus, and all above."

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