This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ...and they are just the subjects which were treated of by the greatest physical or medical philosophers of the ancient world. Clement, in this work, addresses himself to the Christian converts, and his object is, " to show what the conduct of a genuine Christian is." He descends even to such matters as eating ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ...and they are just the subjects which were treated of by the greatest physical or medical philosophers of the ancient world. Clement, in this work, addresses himself to the Christian converts, and his object is, " to show what the conduct of a genuine Christian is." He descends even to such matters as eating and drinking (ciborum varietas morborum causa), proving that to him St Paul's words, in 1 Cor. x. 31, had a literal significance which is now little appreciated by the teachers of Christianity. He speaks strongly in behalf of the female sex, and shows that they are capable of every virtue; he presents a long list of the names of women who had distinguished themselves by adherence to righteousness. In one of his chapters he shows that the most effectual mode of teaching is by similitudes and examples. He says, " The life of men who know Christ must be excellent in all points." In the sixth book of his Stromata he resumes the description of the true Christian, whom he terms the Gnostic, or man of wisdom: he describes his character at large, by his knowledge of God and sacred things, and his redemption from every irregular passion and appetite--being fully united to God, the sovereign good. He shows, however, that he does not live a merely contemplative life, but cultivates his mind in useful literature and human sciences, which he uses to the honour of God. He makes the gospel of Christ truly a system of medicine, as it were, la haute medecine--a better medicine than the world had ever seen before; and he details the mode of procedure employed by the Great Physician (christus Medicus Bonus), who, like the physicians of old, was also a teacher or tutor. He does not teach the method of the schools; he is strictly practical. The Logos is able to...
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