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

Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson.

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And after a little he adds:--

"And when the whole world fades,

And vanished all the abyss of ocean's waves,

And earth of trees is bare; and wrapt in flames,

The air no more begets the winged tribes;

Then He who all destroyed, shall all restore."

We shall find expressions similar to these also in the Orphic hymns, written as follows:--

"For having hidden all, brought them again

To gladsome light, forth from his sacred heart,

Solicitous."

And if we live throughout holily and righteously, we are happy here, and shall be happier after our departure hence; not possessing happiness for a time, but enabled to rest in eternity.

"At the same hearth and table as the rest

Of the immortal gods, we sit all free

Of human ills, unharmed,"

says the philosophic poetry of Empedocles. And so, according to the Greeks, none is so great as to be above judgment, none so insignificant as to escape its notice.

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