Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>And as in the Barbarian philosophy, so also in the Hellenic, “tares\r\nwere sown” by the proper husbandman of the tares; whence also heresies\r\ngrew up among us along with the productive wheat; and those who in the\r\nHellenic philosophy preach the impiety and voluptuousness of Epicurus,\r\nand whatever other tenets are disseminated contrary to right reason,\r\nexist among the Greeks as spurious fruits of the divinely bestowed\r\nhusbandry. This voluptuous and selfish philosophy the apostle calls\r\n“the wisdom of this world;” in consequence of its teaching the things\r\nof this world and about it alone, and its consequent subjection, as\r\nfar as respects ascendancy, to those who rule here. Wherefore also\r\nthis fragmentary philosophy is very elementary, while truly perfect\r\nscience deals with<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_343\">[343]</span> intellectual objects, which are beyond the sphere\r\nof the world, and with the objects still more spiritual than those\r\nwhich “eye saw not, and ear heard not, nor did it enter into the heart\r\nof men,” till the Teacher told the account of them to us; unveiling\r\nthe holy of holies; and in ascending order, things still holier\r\nthan these, to those who are truly and not spuriously heirs of the\r\nLord’s adoption. For we now dare aver (for here is the faith that is\r\ncharacterized by knowledge<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1019\" id=\"FNanchor_1019\">[1019]</a>) that such an one knows all things,\r\nand comprehends all things in the exercise of sure apprehension,\r\nrespecting matters difficult for us, and really pertaining to the true\r\ngnosis,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1020\" id=\"FNanchor_1020\">[1020]</a> such as were James, Peter, John, Paul, and the rest\r\nof the apostles. For prophecy is full of knowledge (<i>gnosis</i>),\r\ninasmuch as it was given by the Lord, and again explained by the Lord\r\nto the apostles. And is not knowledge (<i>gnosis</i>) an attribute of\r\nthe rational soul, which trains itself for this, that by knowledge it\r\nmay become entitled to immortality? For both are powers of the soul,\r\nboth knowledge and impulse. And impulse is found to be a movement\r\nafter an assent. For he who has an impulse towards an action, first\r\nreceives the knowledge of the action, and secondly the impulse. Let\r\nus further devote our attention to this. For since learning is older\r\nthan action; (for naturally, he who does what he wishes to do learns\r\nit first; and knowledge comes from learning, and impulse follows\r\nknowledge; after which comes action;) knowledge turns out the beginning\r\nand author of all rational action. So that rightly the peculiar nature\r\nof the rational soul is characterized by this alone; for in reality\r\nimpulse, like knowledge, is excited by existing objects. And knowledge\r\n(<i>gnosis</i>) is essentially a contemplation of existences on the\r\npart of the soul, either of a certain thing or of certain things, and\r\nwhen perfected, of all together. Although some say that the wise man\r\nis persuaded that there are some things incomprehensible, in such wise\r\nas to have respecting them a kind of comprehension, inasmuch as he<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_344\">[344]</span>\r\ncomprehends that things incomprehensible are incomprehensible; which is\r\ncommon, and pertains to those who are capable of perceiving little. For\r\nsuch a man affirms that there are some things incomprehensible.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER VIII. 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