FRAGMENTS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA

I.—COMMENTS ON THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PETER. CHAP. i. 3. “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who by His great mercy hath regenerated us.” For if God generated us of matter, He afterwards, by progress…

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CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA - MORE FRAGMENTS

I.—NICETAS BISHOP OF HERACLEA. FROM HIS CATENA. I.—JOB I. 21. But Job’s words may be more elegantly understood of evil and sin thus: “Naked” was formed from the earth at the beginning, as if from a “mother’s womb: naked to…

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IRENAEUS AGAINST HERESIES - BOOK I

PREFACE. 1. INASMUCH as certain men have set the truth aside, and bring in lying words and vain genealogies, which, as the apostle says,(2) “minister questions rather than godly edifying which is in faith,” and by means of their craftily-constructed…

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IRENAEUS AGAINST HERESIES - BOOK II

PREFACE. 1. IN the first book, which immediately precedes this, exposing “knowledge falsely so called,”(1) I showed thee, my very dear friend, that the whole system devised, in many and opposite ways, by those who are of the school of…

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IRENAEUS AGAINST HERESIES - BOOK III

PREFACE. THOU hast indeed enjoined upon me, my very dear friend, that I should bring to light the Valentinian doctrines, concealed, as their votaries imagine; that I should exhibit their diversity, and compose a treatise in refutation of them. therefore…

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IRENAEUS AGAINST HERESIES - BOOK IV

PREFACE. 1. By transmitting to thee, my very dear friend, this fourth book of the work which is [entitled] The Detection and Refuation of False Knowledge, I shall, as I have promised, add weight, by means of the words of…

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IRENAEUS AGAINST HERESIES - BOOK V

PREFACE. IN the four preceding books, my very dear friend, which I put forth to thee, all the heretics have been exposed, and their doctrines brought to light, and these men refuted who have devised irreligious opinions. [I have accomplished…

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