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

Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson.

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Thou know'st Him not. Now He appears as fire,

Dread force; as water now; and now as gloom;

And in the beasts is dimly shadowed forth,

In wind, and cloud, in lightning, thunder, rain;

And minister to Him the seas and rocks,

Each fountain and the water's floods and streams.

The mountains tremble, and the earth, the vast

Abyss of sea, and towering height of hills,

When on them looks the Sovereign's awful eye:

Almighty is the glory of the Most High God." [3166]

[3166] These lines of Aeschylus are also quoted by Justyn Martyr (De Monarchia, vol. i. p. 290). Dread force, aplatos horme: Eusebius reads horme, dative. J. Langus has suggested (aplastos) uncreated; aplestos (insatiate) has also been suggested. The epithet of the text, which means primarily unapproachable, then dread or terrible, is applied by Pindar to fire.

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