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Clement of Alexandria LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA m m m m # m Translated by ,^ ^ we G. W. BUTTERWORTH i Printed i^ Great Britain =^ VOLUMES PUBLISHED GREEK AUTHORS ACHILLES TATIUS AELIAN: on animals. 3 vols. Vols. I & II AENEAS TACTICUS. ASCLEPIODOTUS. ONASANDER AESCHINES AESCHYLUS. 2 vols. ALCIPHRON. AELIAN. PHILOSTRATUS: the letters ANTIPHON AND ANDOCIDES, see minor attic orators APOLLODORUS. 2 vols. APOLLONIUS RHODIUS THE APOSTOLIC FATHERS. 2 vols. APPIAN: ROMAN HISTORY. 4 vols. ARISTOPHANES. 3 vols. ARISTOTLE: art of rhetoric ARISTOTLE: Athenian constitution, eudemian ethics ARISTOTLE: generation or animals ARISTOTLE: metaphysics. 2 vols. ARISTOTLE: meteorologica ARISTOTLE: minor works ARISTOTLE: nicomachean ethics ARISTOTLE: oeconomica, magna moralia (with metaphysics ARISTOTLE: on the heavens Vol. II) ARISTOTLE< on the soul, parva naturalia, on breath ARISTOTLE: organon. categories, on interpretation, etc. ARISTOTLE: posterior .analytics, topics ARISTOTLE: on sophistical rftutations, etc. ARISTOTLE: parts, movement, progression of animals ARISTOTLE: physics. 2 vols. ARISTOTLE: poetics. LONGINUS: on the sublime. DEMETRIUS: on style ARISTOTLE: politics ARISTOTLE: problems. 2 vols. ARISTOTLE: rhetorica ad alexandrum (with Problems, VoLII) ARRIAN: history of alexandkr and indica. 2 vols. ATHENAEUS: the deipnosophists. 7 vols. ST. BASIL: letters. 4 vols. CALLIMACHUS. fragments CALLIMACHUS. hymns, epigrams. LYCOPHRON. ARATUS CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA DEMOSTHENES I: olynthiacs, philippics, and minor orations: 1-XVII and XX 358 net DEMOSTHENES II: de corona and de falsa legatione DEMOSTHENES III: meidias, androtion. aristocrates, timocrates and aristogeiton, I and II America DEMOSTHENES IV-VI: private orations and in neaeram DEMOSTHENES VII: funeral speech, erotic essay, exordia $4. 00 and letters DIO CASSIUS. 9 vols. DIO CHRYSOSTOM. 5 vols. DIODORUS SICULUS. 12 vols. Vols. I-VII, IX, X, XI DIOGENES LAERTIUS. 2 vols. DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS: roman antiquities 7 vols. EPICTETUS. 2 vols. EURIPIDES. 4 vols. EUSEBIUS: ecclesiastical history. 2 vols. GALEN: on the natural faculties THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY. 5 vols. THE GREEK BUCOLIC POETS: THEOCRITUS, BION. MOSCHUS GREEK ELEGY and IAMBUS with the ANACREONTEA. 2 vuls. GREEK MATHEMATICAL WORKS. 2 vols. HERODOTUS. 4 vols. HESIOD and the HOMERIC HYMNS HIPPOCRATES. 4 vols. HOMER: iliad. 2 vols. HOMER: odyssey. 2 vols. ISAEUS ISOCRATES. 3 vols. ST. JOHN DAMASCENE: barlaam and ioasaph JOSEPHUS. 9 vols. Vols. I-VII JULIAN. 3 vols. LONGUS: daphnis and chloe. PARTHENIUS: selections ITir'IATvJ S „^lo V^U I-VI / NY PUBLIC LIBRARY THE BRANCH LIBRARIES L 3 3333 05754 5929 7/ V<-^3 7^ NOT TO BE TAKEN FROSI THE ROOM Reference lw ^^^^^""^'^UVS^^^^^^^ liOt to > i i I •<^^^ a THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY FOUNDED BY JAMES LOEB, LL.D. EDITED BY fT. E. PAGE, C.H., LITT.D. t E. CAPPS, PH.D., LL.D. t W. H. D. ROUSE, litt.d. L. A. POST, L.H.D. E. H. WARMINGTON, m.a., f.b.hist.soc. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2007 with funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/details/clementofalexandOOclem Sr JOHN AND THE ROBBER. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY G. W. BUTTERWORTH, M.A. BODINGTON MEMORIAL FELLOW OP THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS THE EXHORTATION TO THE GREEKS THE RICH MANS SALVATION AND THE FRAGMENT OF AN ADDEESS ENTITLED TO THE NEWLY BAPTIZED CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD MCMLX First printed 1919 Reprinted 1939. 1953. 1960 PrifUed in Great Britain CONTENTS St. John and the Robber . Frontispiece PAGE! Introduction ....... xi Bibliography .--... xix THE EXHORTATION TO THE GREEKS Introduction 3-9.1 The minstrels of Greek legend were supposed to have performed wonderful deeds by the power of music. But the new minstrel, the Word of God, does greater works in real life. His power is shown in saving men from slavery to daemons ; and also in giving order and harmony to the universe. " He is the New Song ; and yet old, for He was in the beginning." He alone reveals God to men. Description of the Greek Mysteries . 27-51 Sanctuaries, oracles, sacred springs and trees are now out of date. The mysteries ; derivation of the word ' mystery ' ; originator of mysteries. Mysteries of (i.) Aphrodite, (ii.) Demeter,(iii.) Attis and Cybele. Story of Persephone. The mysteries of Dionysus. Rites of the Corybantes and the Cabeiri. The Ele- usinian formula. These mysteries are profane and unholy ; Heracleitus witnesses against them. Greeks, not Christians, are the real atheists. CONTENTS PAOK Description of the Greek Gods . 53-101 Seven causes of idolatry. Many gods of the same name. Gods were really men ; examples to prove this. The immorality of the gods, with examples. Goddesses equally guilty. The Greek games are all held in honour of dead men. Origin of phallic- emblems in Dionysus-worship. Gods have even been slaves. They have human feelings and needs. Zeus was once ahve, but is now dead. Greeks themselves call the gods by stupid and is indecent names ; Egyptian animal worship better than this. Greeks also worship animals ; examples. Are the Greek gods daemons, or secondary divinities? Certainly they are not guardians of men, but savage and man-hating creatures, as is proved by human sacrifices. Such daemons must be avoided hke wild beasts. Men are better than daemons, e.g. Solon than Apollo. The gods' temples are really tombs. The Worship of Statues . 101-143 The first images were unwrought wood and stone ; in later times they were made into human shape. is They are all the work of men ; as shown by many examples. Even the image of Sarapis in Alexandria is of human workmanship. The dei- fication of Antinous is another example of god- Sibyl making ; his tomb is now a temple. The predicts the destruction of temples with their images. Heracleitus scoffs at image-worship. Images are without life, and sacrifices do them no good. The lowest animals are better than any statues. God's true image is mental, not material. Rulers despise statues, and insult vi CONTENTS PAGE them. Thieves steal them. Fire and earthquakes destroy them. Sculptors make them look like their own favourites. Both kings and private persons, scorning image-worship, have styled themselves gods. The epitaph of Hippo shows that all gods were once men. They are now un- clean spirits that haunt tombs, and their statues are simply earth and art. The fascination of art has led men to fall in love with statues ; now it leads men to worship them. Stories of gods are full of immorahty ; but Christians are living images of God, and must not listen to them. Indecent pictures hung in houses ; indecent symbols on rings ; shameful emblems displayed in public. Image-making is forbidden to Chris- tians. Men must seek after God, and not after any created thing. The Witness of Philosophy . 145-163 Early philosophers supposed the elements to be first principles. This veneration of matter is mere atheism. It originates with barbarians. Other philosophers sought for a higher first principle, as the Infinite, or Mind. The Stoic doctrine of Immanence. The Peripatetic doc- trine ; God the soul of the universe. Epicurus. A crowd of minor philosophers who exalt the elements. But Plato is a better guide ; together with Euripides and Democritus, he knows the majesty of the true God. Whence came Plato's wisdom ? From barbarians, as he confesses, i.e. from the Hebrews. Antisthenes, Xenophon, Socrates, Cleanthes and Pythagoras also knew the truth. CONTENTS FAOB The Witness of Poetry . 163-173 Poetry is entirely concerned with fiction, yet it cannot help bearing some witness to truth. Examples from Aratus, Hesiod, Sophocles, Orpheus. Even comic poets know the truth, for instance, Men- ander. Homer, too, and many others speak ill of the gods ; but especially Euripides. The Witness of Hebrew Prophecy . 173-195 The sacred writings are simple in style, but of great power. A prelude from the Sibyl. Many quota- tions to show the majesty of the one true God and His love for man ; from Jeremiah, Isaiah, Moses, Hosea, Solomon, David. But Christ the Word speaks with even greater authority. He invites us into His kingdom, to be sons of God. Punishment awaits unbelievers. We must then obey God " to-day." The meaning of " to-day." We must choose between God's grace and His displeasure. Salvation is beyond price ; yet it can be bought for faith and love. God is our teacher, through the scriptures. All may become His children. The Claims of Custom .... 197-237 Ought men to abandon their traditional ways ? Yes, just as children abandon childish ways. Custom is the real obstacle to godliness. It refuses all guidance. The sight of filthy and degraded priests ought to bring men to God, who is a loving Father. Yet some men are like worms viii CONTENTS PAQB and swine, loving what is foul. God has a splen- did inheritance for His children; heaven and earth are theirs without cost. An innate faith in goodness is possessed by all, and is worthy of trust. Custom is stupid ; it deifies mere human beings, and sets up stones for worship. God's Word is His true image ; and man's mind is an image of the Word. Custom is rooted in ignor- ance. But ignorance is only an excuse for him who has never heard God's message. Custom destroys men. It is utterly absurd. Those who follow it are like drugged men ; they also become like stones when they worship stones. Men are the really sacred things, not animals or stones. Unbelievers are deaf and blind in heart ; or hke serpents, wriggling on the earth. Life is the reward for finding God. Divine wisdom helps man to do life's duties well. God's children follow God's laws, which are severe, but health-giving. The Word has brought untold blessings to men.
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