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Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson.
Clement of Alexandria in Print
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This Part: 128 Pages
Page 44
By the expression "Sire of our Mother" (metropator) he not only intimates creation out of nothing, but gives occasion to those who introduce emissions of imagining a consort of the Deity. And he paraphrases those prophetic Scripture--that in Isaiah, "I am He that fixes the thunder, and creates the wind; whose hands have founded the host of heaven;" [3159] and that in Moses, "Behold, behold that I am He, and there is no god beside me: I will kill, and I will make to live; I will smite, and I will heal: and there is none that shall deliver out of my hands." [3160]
"And He, from good, to mortals planteth ill,
And cruel war, and tearful woes,"
according to Orpheus.
Such also are the words of the Parian Archilochus.
"O Zeus, thine is the power of heaven, and thou
Inflict'st on men things violent and wrong." [3161]
Again let the Thracian Orpheus sing to us:--
"His right hand all around to ocean's bound
He stretches; and beneath His feet is earth."
[3159] Amos iv. 13.
[3160] Deut. xxxii. 39.
[3161] For ouranous oras we read anthropous (which is the reading of Eusebius); and dres (Sylburgius's conjecture), also from Eusebius, instead of ha themis athemista.
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