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 in his Preaching called the Lord, Law and Logos.
Clement of Alexandria
The Stromata, Book II
Chapter XV
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
“Faith leads the way, fear upbuilds, and love perfects.” (from the Shepherd of Hermas)
Clement of Alexandria
The Stromata, Book II
Chapter XII
…if you consider the truth, you will find man naturally misled so as to give assent to what is false, though possessing the resources necessary for belief in the truth.
Clement of Alexandria
The Stromata, Book II
Chapter XXII
Such a change, then, from unbelief to faith—and to trust in hope and fear, is divine. And, in truth, faith is discovered, by us, to be the first movement towards salvation; after which fear, and hope, and repentance, advancing in company with temperance and patience, lead us to love and knowledge.
Clement of Alexandria
The Stromata, Book II
Chapter VI
“Now the just shall live by faith,” which is according to the covenant and the commandments; since these, which are two in name and time, given in accordance with the [divine] economy—being in power one—the old and the new, are dispensed through the Son by one God.
…For love, on account of its friendly alliance with faith, makes men believers; and faith, which is the foundation of love, in its turn introduces the doing of good; since also fear, the pædagogue of the law, is believed to be fear by those, by whom it is believed.
Clement of Alexandria
The Stromata, Book II
Chapter VI
For God is not in darkness or in place, but above both space and time, and qualities of objects.
Clement of Alexandria
The Stromata, Book II
Chapter II
And there are those who have determined not only the year of our Lord’s birth, but also the day; and they say that it took place in the twenty-eighth year of Augustus, and in the twenty-fifth day of Pachon.
Clement of Alexandria
The Stromata, Book I
Chapter XXI
Scripture manifestly applying the terms bread and water to nothing else but to those heresies, which employ bread and water in the oblation, not according to the canon of the Church. For there are those who celebrate the Eucharist with mere water.
Clement of Alexandria
The Stromata, Book I
Chapter XIX