Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Whatever the explication necessary on the point in hand shall demand,\r\nshall be embraced, and especially what is occult in the Barbarian\r\nphilosophy, the department of symbol and enigma; which those who have\r\nsubjected the teaching of the ancients to systematic philosophic\r\nstudy have affected, as being in the highest degree serviceable, nay,\r\nabsolutely necessary to the knowledge of truth. In addition, it will\r\nin my opinion form an appropriate sequel to defend those tenets, on\r\naccount of which the Greeks assail us, making use of a few scriptures,\r\nif perchance the Jew also may listen and be able quietly to turn\r\nfrom what he has believed to Him on<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_2\">[2]</span> whom he has not believed. The\r\ningenuous among the philosophers will then with propriety be taken up\r\nin a friendly exposure both of their life and of the discovery of new\r\ndogmas, not in the way of our avenging ourselves on our detractors\r\n(for that is far from being the case with those who have learned to\r\nbless those who curse, even though they needlessly discharge on us\r\nwords of blasphemy), but with a view to their conversion; if by any\r\nmeans these adepts in wisdom may feel ashamed, being brought to their\r\nsenses by barbarian demonstration; so as to be able, although late, to\r\nsee clearly of what sort are the intellectual acquisitions for which\r\nthey make pilgrimages over the seas. Those they have stolen are to be\r\npointed out, that we may thereby pull down their conceit; and of those\r\non the discovery of which through investigation they plume themselves,\r\nthe refutation will be furnished. By consequence, also we must treat of\r\nwhat is called the curriculum of study—how far it is serviceable;<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_2\" id=\"FNanchor_2\">[2]</a>\r\nand of astrology, and mathematics, and magic, and sorcery. For all the\r\nGreeks boast of these as the highest sciences. “He who reproves boldly\r\nis a peacemaker.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_3\" id=\"FNanchor_3\">[3]</a> We have often said already that we have neither\r\npractised nor do we study the expressing ourselves in pure Greek; for\r\nthis suits those who seduce the multitude from the truth. But true\r\nphilosophic demonstration will contribute to the profit not of the\r\nlisteners’ tongues, but of their minds. And, in my opinion, he who is\r\nsolicitous about truth ought not to frame his language with artfulness\r\nand care, but only to try to express his meaning as he best can. For\r\nthose who are particular about words, and devote their time to them,\r\nmiss the things. It is a feat fit for the gardener to pluck without\r\ninjury the rose that is growing among the thorns; and for the craftsman\r\nto find out the pearl buried in the oyster’s flesh. And they say that\r\nfowls have flesh of the most agreeable quality, when, through not\r\nbeing supplied with abundance of food, they pick their sustenance with\r\ndifficulty, scraping with their feet. If any one, then, speculating\r\non what is similar,<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_3\">[3]</span> wants to arrive<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_4\" id=\"FNanchor_4\">[4]</a> at the truth [that is] in the\r\nnumerous Greek plausibilities, like the real face beneath masks, he\r\nwill hunt it out with much pains. For the power that appeared in the\r\nvision to Hermas said, “Whatever may be revealed to you, shall be\r\nrevealed.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_5\" id=\"FNanchor_5\">[5]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER I. 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