791Chapter XX.—The True Gnostic Exercises Patience and Self-Restraint. 800Chapter XXI.—Opinions of Various Philosophers on the Chief Good. 802Chapter XXII.—Plato’s Opinion, that the Chief Good Consists in Assimilation to God, and Its Agreement with Scripture. 805Chapter XXIII.—On Marriage. 810Elucidations 812Book III 853Elucidations 861Book IV. 862Chapter I.—Order of Contents. 863Chapter II.—The Meaning of the Name Stromata or Miscellanies. 865Chapter III.—The True Excellence of Man. 868Chapter IV.—The Praises of Martyrdom. 870Chapter V.—On Contempt for Pain, Poverty, and Other External Things. 878Chapter VII.—The Blessedness of the Martyr. 884Chapter VIII.—Women as Well as Men, Slaves as Well as Freemen, Candidates for the Martyr’s Crown. 889Chapter IX.—Christ’s Sayings Respecting Martyrdom. 892Chapter X.—Those Who Offered Themselves for Martyrdom Reproved. 893Chapter XI.—The Objection, Why Do You Suffer If God Cares for You, Answered. 894Chapter XII.—Basilides’ Idea of Martyrdom Refuted. 897Chapter XIII.—Valentinian’s Vagaries About the Abolition of Death Refuted. 900Chapter XIV.—The Love of All, Even of Our Enemies. 901Chapter XV.—On Avoiding Offence. 902Chapter XVI.—Passages of Scripture Respecting the Constancy, Patience, and Love of the Martyrs. 905Chapter XVII.—Passages from Clement’s Epistle to the Corinthians on Martyrdom. 908Chapter XVIII.—On Love, and the Repressing of Our Desires. 911Chap. XIX.—Women as well as Men Capable of Perfection. 914Chapter XX.—A Good Wife. 916Chapter XXI.—Description of the Perfect Man, or Gnostic. xv