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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[923] [This great truth comes forcibly from an Attic scholar. Let me refer to a very fine passage in another Christian scholar, William Cowper (Task, book ii.): “All truth is from the sempiternal source,” etc.]
[924] The Sibyl.
[925] Or Asseus, native of Asso.
Chapter VII.—The Poets Also Bear Testimony to the Truth.
[926] Il., iii. 406.
[927] Il., vi. 132.
[928] Orestes, 590.
[929] Ion, 442.
Chapter VIII.—The True Doctrine is to Be Sought in the Prophets.
[930] [Note her remarkable accord with inspiration, clearly distinguishing between such and the oracles of God. But see, supra, p. 132 and p. 145.]
[931] [Having shown what truth there is to be found in heathen poets, he ascends to the Sibyl, and thus comes to the prophets; showing them how to climb upward in this way, and cleverly inducing them to make the best use of their own prophets and poets, by following them to the sources of their noblest ideas.]
[932] [How sublimely he now introduces the oracles of truth.]
[937] Jer. viii. 2, xxx. 20, iv. 6.
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