Ante-Nicene Christian Library; Translations Of The Writings Of The Fathers Down To A.D. 325, Volume 12: The Writings Of Clement Of Alexandria, Volume 2

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And Xenocrates the Chalcedonian, Who mentions the supremo Zeus and the inferior Zeus, leaves an indication of the Father and the Son. Homer, While representing thegods as subject to human passions, appears to kno the Divine Being, whom Epicurus does not so revere. ΗΘ sva accordingly:

The isse of men noeda calculation and number alone, And me live is number and calculation. sor theae fave mortias. β

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Tho Spirit also cries by Isaiah : μ moresore the multitude of sacrifices' saith tho Lord. Ι am fuit os holocausis osrams, and the sat os lambs and tho blood os bulis I wigh

fico a sacrifice of righteouines' and trusi in tho Lord,VM thus writes:

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And with this agroes the tragedy' in the following lines:

arrangessi Tho tranatation adopta tho arrangement of Groti . 3 Isa. lxv. 24.

Theso linea are quoted by Justin De Monarchia , p. 333, butaseribed by him pari in Philemon, part to Euripides. Aseribed by Justin to Sophocles.' Adopting the massing κεινος inalaad os καινός in the text.

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says tho philosophic poet of Empedocles. And so, accord- ing to the Greehs, none is so great as to be above judment,none so insignificant as to escape ita notice. And tho samo Orpheus speaks thus:

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ra the centro at Hia Wrath, nor cari endum

By the expression Siro os our Μother' μητροπάτωρ) he notonly intimates creation out of nothing, but gives occasion tothose Who introduce emissions os imagining a consori Os the Dei . And he paraphrases inoso prophetic Scriptures-that in Isaiah, I am He that fixes tho inunder, and creates the

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according to Orpheus. Such also are the worti of tho Parian Archilochus:

Main tot the Thracian Orpheus sing to us :

Righun then, also Philemon, the comic poet, demolishes idolato in these Wotas :

d Sophocles tho tragedian says :

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d Orpheus:

Again Μ es, having prophosted that the woman nould bring fortii in troubie and pain, on account of transgremion, a mei not undistinguished writes :

hs intimatos that God is just. And Menander, the comic poet, in exhibiting God, says:

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Pallas cannot Olympian Zeua propitiate, Althono vith many morda and sago invice ahe prays; But he mill ive to tho devo ing fire many temples of the immortias, Who nom aland ahahing mith terror, and bathed in ameat

and so sortii. Thearidas, in his book On Nature, Writes: μ Thero Was then

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Nor is there any other except tho Great Mng,'

says Orpheus. In accordance With Whom, the comic poet

ther es ali, To Him alone incessant reVerenee Pay, Tho inventor and the author of auch Nesaings.

leachinn-things inanimate, sympathiging mitti the animato creation; and of living beings somo are atready immortal, working in tho light of day. But os inoso that ars stili mortal, some ars in Iear, and carried stili in their mollier s Womb; anilothera regulate thomselves by their own independent reason. And of men ali are Greehs and Barbarians. But no meo any here of tillers of tho soli, or nomads, and not even of tWellers in cities, can livo, without Ming imbued missi thosaith os a su rior being. Where ore every eastern nation, and every nation touching the westem aliores; or the noriti,

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and eata one to ards tho Muth,y-ali have one and tho samo preconception respecting Ηim Who hath appo ted govem-ment ; since the most universat os His operations equallypervade ali. Mucii more did the philosophera among the Greas, devoted in investigation, stariing from tho Barbarian philosophy, attribute providence to the Invisibie, and sole, and most pomersui, and most shil sul and supreme cause ofati things most beautisul; -not knowing the inferences hominese truths, uniem instructed by us, and not even hoW Godis to be known naturally; but only, as We havs alaeady osten

phetic ulterances have the fame force as the apostolic Word.

Aecording to the reading in Eusebius, πῶν ἔθνος ερον, πῶν δε ἐσπερίων

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