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But we shall note still greater manifestations of his genius. Speaking of the miracle of turning water into wine, he says of Christ: " He gave life to the watery element of the meaning of the law, filling with his blood the doer of it who is of Adam, that is, the whole world; supplying piety with drink from the vine of truth, the mixture of the old law and of the new word, in order to the fulfillment of the pre- destined time. " The Instructor, book 2, chap. 2.
This is simply a collection of wo...rds without sense. What edification sensible people can find in such stuff is a mystery. And what we have quoted might be multi- plied many times, if we had space to give long extracts.
The " Stromata, " or " Miscellanies, " is, as its title indi- cates, of a miscellaneous character. According . To Euse- bius, the full title was, " Titus Flavins Clement's Miscel- laneous Collections of Speculative Notes, Bearing upon the True Philosophy. " Says the translator in his intro- duction : " The aim of the work, in accordance with this title, is, in opposition to gnosticism, to furnish the material for the construction of a true gnosis, a Christian philosophy, on the basis of faith, and to lead on to this higher knowl- edge those who, by the discipline of the Pcedagogux [" The Instructor"], had been trained for it He describes philosophy as a divinely ordered preparation of the Greeks for faith in Christ, as the law was for the He- brews; and shows the necessity and value of literature and philosophic culture for the attainment of true Chris- tian knowledge.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
But we shall note still greater manifestations of his genius. Speaking of the miracle of turning water into wine, he says of Christ: " He gave life to the watery element of the meaning of the law, filling with his blood the doer of it who is of Adam, that is, the whole world; supplying piety with drink from the vine of truth, the mixture of the old law and of the new word, in order to the fulfillment of the pre- destined time. " The Instructor, book 2, chap. 2.
This is simply a collection of wo...rds without sense. What edification sensible people can find in such stuff is a mystery. And what we have quoted might be multi- plied many times, if we had space to give long extracts.
The " Stromata, " or " Miscellanies, " is, as its title indi- cates, of a miscellaneous character. According . To Euse- bius, the full title was, " Titus Flavins Clement's Miscel- laneous Collections of Speculative Notes, Bearing upon the True Philosophy. " Says the translator in his intro- duction : " The aim of the work, in accordance with this title, is, in opposition to gnosticism, to furnish the material for the construction of a true gnosis, a Christian philosophy, on the basis of faith, and to lead on to this higher knowl- edge those who, by the discipline of the Pcedagogux [" The Instructor"], had been trained for it He describes philosophy as a divinely ordered preparation of the Greeks for faith in Christ, as the law was for the He- brews; and shows the necessity and value of literature and philosophic culture for the attainment of true Chris- tian knowledge.
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