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

Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson.

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Hesiod, too, agrees with what is said above, in what he writes:--

"No prophet, sprung of men that dwell on earth,

Can know the mind of Aegis-bearing Zeus."

Similarly, then, Solon the Athenian, in the Elegies, following Hesiod, writes:--

"The immortal's mind to men is quite unknown."

Again Moses, having prophesied that the woman would bring forth in trouble and pain, on account of transgression, a poet not undistinguished writes:--

"Never by day

From toil and woe shall they have rest, nor yet

By night from groans. Sad cares the gods to men

Shall give."

Further, when Homer says,--

"The Sire himself the golden balance held," [3165]

he intimates that God is just.

[3165] Iliad, viii. 69.

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