“It is incumbent on us to cleave to the saints, because they that cleave to them shall be sanctified.”
Clement of Alexandria
The Stromata, Book V
Chapter VIII
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Faith is the ear of the soul
Now faith is the ear of the soul.
Clement of Alexandria
The Stromata, Book V
Chapter I
The soul is not sent down from heaven
The soul is not then sent down from heaven to what is worse. For God works all things up to what is better. But the soul which has chosen the best life—the life that is from God and righteousness—exchanges earth for heaven.
Clement of Alexandria
The Stromata, Book IV
Chapter XXVI
Clement quotes Clement of Rome as an Apostle
Moreover, in the Epistle to the Corinthians, the Apostle Clement also, drawing a picture of the Gnostic, says: “For who that has sojourned among you has not proved your perfect and firm faith? and has not admired your sound and gentle piety? and has not celebrated the munificent style of your hospitality? and has not felicitated your complete and sure knowledge? For ye did all things impartially, and walked in the ordinances of God;” and so forth.
Clement of Alexandria
The Stromata, Book IV
Chapter XVII
Death is the fellowship of the soul in a state of sin with the body
The assertion, then, may be hazarded, that it has been shown that death is the fellowship of the soul in a state of sin with the body; and life the separation from sin.
Clement of Alexandria
The Stromata, Book IV
Chapter III
Peace is a struggle against lust
For peace and freedom are not otherwise won, than by ceaseless and unyielding struggles with our lusts.
Clement of Alexandria
The Stromata, Book II
Chapter XX
Early admonitions against racism
And it prohibits an ox and ass to be yoked in the plough together; pointing perhaps to the want of agreement in the case of the animals; and at the same time teaching not to wrong any one belonging to another race, and bring him under the yoke, when there is no other cause to allege than difference of race, which is no cause at all, being neither wickedness nor the effect of wickedness.
Clement of Alexandria
The Stromata, Book II
Chapter XVIII
Peter used the term Logos
Peter in his Preaching called the Lord, Law and Logos.
Clement of Alexandria
The Stromata, Book II
Chapter XV
Frequent confession is the mark of a Christian
The frequent asking of forgiveness, then, for those things in which we often transgress, is the semblance of repentance,
Clement of Alexandria
The Stromata, Book II
Chapter XIII
Clement quotes the Shepherd of Hermas
“Faith leads the way, fear upbuilds, and love perfects.” (from the Shepherd of Hermas)
Clement of Alexandria
The Stromata, Book II
Chapter XII