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Clement of Alexandria

Stromata - Book IV

Chapter I.—Order of Contents.

Chapter II.—The Meaning of the Name Stromata or Miscellanies.

Chapter III.—The True Excellence of Man.

Chapter IV.—The Praises of Martyrdom.

Chapter V.—On Contempt for Pain, Poverty, and Other External Things.

Chapter VI.—Some Points in the Beatitudes.

Chapter VII.—The Blessedness of the Martyr.

Chapter VIII.—Women as Well as Men, Slaves as Well as Freemen, Candidates for the Martyr’s Crown.

Chapter IX.—Christ’s Sayings Respecting Martyrdom.

Chapter X.—Those Who Offered Themselves for Martyrdom Reproved.

Chapter XI.—The Objection, Why Do You Suffer If God Cares for You, Answered.

Chapter XII.—Basilides’ Idea of Martyrdom Refuted.

Chapter XIII.—Valentinian’s Vagaries About the Abolition of Death Refuted.

Chapter XIV.—The Love of All, Even of Our Enemies.

Chapter XV.—On Avoiding Offence.

Chapter XVI.—Passages of Scripture Respecting the Constancy, Patience, and Love of the Martyrs.

Chapter XVII.—Passages from Clement’s Epistle to the Corinthians on Martyrdom.

Chapter XVIII.—On Love, and the Repressing of Our Desires.

Chapter XIX.—Women as well as Men Capable of Perfection.

Chapter XX.—A Good Wife.

Chapter XXI.—Description of the Perfect Man, or Gnostic.

Chapter XXII.—The True Gnostic Does Good, Not from Fear of Punishment or Hope of Reward, But Only for the Sake of Good Itself.

Chapter XXIII.—The Same Subject Continued.

Chapter XXIV.—The Reason and End of Divine Punishments.

Chapter XXV.—True Perfection Consists in the Knowledge and Love of God.

Chapter XXVI.—How the Perfect Man Treats the Body and the Things of the World.

Elucidations