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

Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson.

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And the same Orpheus speaks thus:--

"But to the word divine, looking, attend,

Keeping aright the heart's receptacle

Of intellect, and tread the straight path well,

And only to the world's immortal King

Direct thy gaze." [3155]

And again, respecting God, saying that He was invisible, and that He was known to but one, a Chaldean by race--meaning either by this Abraham or his son--he speaks as follows:--

"But one a scion of Chaldean race;

For he the sun's path knew right well,

And how the motion of the sphere about

The earth proceeds, in circle moving

Equally around its axis, how the winds

Their chariot guide o'er air and sea."

[3155] Quoted in Exhortation, p. 193.

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