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

Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson.

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And Orpheus:--

"One Might, the great, the flaming heaven, was

One Deity. All things one Being were; in whom

All these revolve fire, water, and the earth."

And so forth.

Pindar, the lyric poet, as if in Bacchic frenzy, plainly says:--

"What is God? The All."

And again:--

"God, who makes all mortals."

And when he says,--

"How little, being a man, dost thou expect

Wisdom for man? 'Tis hard for mortal mind

The counsels of the gods to scan; and thou

Wast of a mortal mother born,"

he drew the thought from the following: "Who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who was His counsellor?" [3164]

[3164] Isa. xl. 13.

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