Contents
Table of Contents
The Gospel According to Peter.
Synoptical Table of the Four Canonical Gospels and The Gospel According to Peter.
The Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena.
Introductory Notice to 1st Clement.
The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians.
The Salutation. Praise of the Corinthians Before the Breaking Forth of Schism Among Them.
Praise of the Corinthians Continued.
The Sad State of the Corinthian Church After Sedition Arose in It from Envy and Emulation.
Many Evils Have Already Flowed from This Source in Ancient Times.
Continuation. Several Other Martyrs.
Continuation Respecting Repentance.
The Rewards of Faith and Hospitality. Rahab.
We Should Obey God Rather Than the Authors of Sedition.
We Must Adhere to Those Who Cultivate Peace, Not to Those Who Merely Pretend to Do So.
Christ as an Example of Humility.
The Saints as Examples of Humility.
David as an Example of Humility.
Imitating These Examples, Let Us Seek After Peace.
The Peace and Harmony of the Universe.
Let Us Obey God, and Not the Authors of Sedition.
Be Humble, and Believe that Christ Will Come Again.
God Continually Shows Us in Nature that There Will Be a Resurrection.
The Phœnix an Emblem of Our Resurrection.
We Shall Rise Again, Then, as the Scripture Also Testifies.
In the Hope of the Resurrection, Let Us Cleave to the Omnipotent and Omniscient God.
God Sees All Things: Therefore Let Us Avoid Transgression.
Let Us Also Draw Near to God in Purity of Heart.
Let Us Do Those Things that Please God, and Flee from Those He Hates, that We May Be Blessed.
Let Us See by What Means We May Obtain the Divine Blessing.
We are Justified Not by Our Own Works, But by Faith.
Immense is This Reward. How Shall We Obtain It?
All Blessings are Given to Us Through Christ.
Christ is Our Leader, and We His Soldiers.
Let the Members of the Church Submit Themselves, and No One Exalt Himself Above Another.
There is No Reason for Self-Conceit.
Let Us Preserve in the Church the Order Appointed by God.
Continuation of the Same Subject.
The Order of Ministers in the Church.
Moses of Old Stilled the Contention Which Arose Concerning the Priestly Dignity.
The Ordinances of the Apostles, that There Might Be No Contention Respecting the Priestly Office.
It is the Part of the Wicked to Vex the Righteous.
Let Us Cleave to the Righteous: Your Strife is Pernicious.
Your Recent Discord is Worse Than the Former Which Took Place in the Times of Paul.
Let Us Return to the Practice of Brotherly Love.
Let Us Pray to Be Thought Worthy of Love.
Let the Partakers in Strife Acknowledge Their Sins.
Such a Confession is Pleasing to God.
The Love of Moses Towards His People.
He Who is Full of Love Will Incur Every Loss, that Peace May Be Restored to the Church.
Let Us Admonish and Correct One Another.
Let the Authors of Sedition Submit Themselves.
Submission the Precursor of Salvation.
Warning Against Disobedience. Prayer.
Prayer Continued—For Rulers and Governors. Conclusion.
Summary and Conclusory—Concerning Godliness.
Hortatory, Letter Sent by Special Messengers.
Introductory Notice to 2nd Clement.
The Second Epistle of Clement.
We Ought to Think Highly of Christ.
The Church, Formerly Barren, is Now Fruitful.
The Duty of Confessing Christ.
This World Should Be Despised.
The Present and Future Worlds are Enemies to Each Other.
We Must Strive in Order to Be Crowned.
The Necessity of Repentance While We are on Earth.
We Shall Be Judged in the Flesh.
Vice is to Be Forsaken, and Virtue Followed.
We Ought to Serve God, Trusting in His Promises.
We are Constantly to Look for the Kingdom of God.
God's Name Not to Be Blasphemed.
He Who Saves and He Who is Saved.
Preparation for the Day of Judgment.
The Author Sinful, Yet Pursuing.
The Apology of Aristides the Philosopher.
The Passion of the Scillitan Martyrs.
Epistle to Gregory and Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of John.
Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of John.
How Christians are the Spiritual Israel.
The 144,000 Sealed in the Apocalypse are Converts to Christ from the Gentile World.
In the Spiritual Israel the High-Priests are Those Who Devote Themselves to the Study of Scripture.
The Study of the Gospels is the First Fruits Offered by These Priests of Christianity.
All Scripture is Gospel; But the Gospels are Distinguished Above Other Scriptures.
What Good Things are Announced in the Gospels.
How the Gospels Cause the Other Books of Scripture Also to Be Gospel.
The Somatic and the Spiritual Gospel.
How Jesus Himself is the Gospel.
Jesus is All Good Things; Hence the Gospel is Manifold.
The Gospel Contains the Ill Deeds Also Which Were Done to Jesus.
The Angels Also are Evangelists.
The Old Testament, Typified by John, is the Beginning of the Gospel.
Meaning of “Beginning.” (1) in Space.
(2) in Time. The Beginning of Creation.
(5) of Elements and What is Formed from Them.
Christ as Light; How He, and How His Disciples are the Light of the World.
Christ as the Door and as the Shepherd.
Christ as Anointed (Christ) and as King.
Christ the True Vine, and as Bread.
Christ as the First and the Last; He is Also What Lies Between These.
Christ as the Living and the Dead.
Christ as a Servant, as the Lamb of God, and as the Man Whom John Did Not Know.
Christ as Paraclete, as Propitiation, and as the Power of God.
Christ as Wisdom and Sanctification and Redemption.
Christ as Righteousness; As the Demiurge, the Agent of the Good God, and as High-Priest.
“And the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
In What Way the Logos is God. Errors to Be Avoided on This Question.
Various Relations of the Logos to Men.
That the Logos is One, Not Many. Of the Word, Faithful and True, and of His White Horse.
He (This One) Was in the Beginning with God.
How the Word is the Maker of All Things, and Even the Holy Spirit Was Made Through Him.
Of Things Not Made Through the Logos.
Heracleon's View that the Logos is Not the Agent of Creation.
That the Logos Present in Us is Not Responsible for Our Sins.
How No One is Righteous or Can Truly Be Said to Live in Comparison with God.
Is the Saviour All that He Is, to All?
How the Life in the Logos Comes After the Beginning.
Heracleon's View that the Lord Brought Life Only to the Spiritual. Refutation of This.
The Life May Be the Light of Others Besides.
The Higher Powers are Men; And Christ is Their Light Also.
How God Also is Light, But in a Different Way; And How Life Came Before Light.
The Life Here Spoken of is the Higher Life, that of Reason.
Different Kinds of Light; And of Darkness.
Christ is Not, Like God, Quite Free from Darkness: Since He Bore Our Sins.
How the Darkness Failed to Overtake the Light.
There is a Divine Darkness Which is Not Evil, and Which Ultimately Becomes Light.
John the Baptist Was Sent. From Where? His Soul Was Sent from a Higher Region.
John is Voice, Jesus is Speech. Relation of These Two to Each Other.
Significance of the Names of John and of His Parents.
The Prophets Bore Witness to Christ and Foretold Many Things Concerning Him.
How John Was a Witness of Christ, and Specially of “The Light.”
How the Prophets and Holy Men of the Old Testament Knew the Things of Christ.
John Denies that He is Elijah or “The” Prophet. Yet He Was “A” Prophet.
There Were Two Embassies to John the Baptist; The Different Characters of These.
Messianic Discussion with John the Baptist.
Of the Birth of John, and of His Alleged Identity with Elijah. Of the Doctrine of Transcorporation.
John is a Prophet, But Not the Prophet.
Of the Voice John the Baptist is.
Of the Way of the Lord, How It is Narrow, and How Jesus is the Way.
Heracleon's View of the Voice, and of John the Baptist.
John I. 24, 25. Of the Baptism of John, that of Elijah, and that of Christ.
Comparison of John's Testimony to Jesus in the Different Gospels.
Of the Testimony of John to Jesus in Matthew's Gospel.
Of the Testimony in Mark. What is Meant by the Saviour's Shoes and by Untying His Shoe-Latchets.
Luke and John Suggest that One May Loose the Shoe-Latchets of the Logos Without Stooping Down.
The Difference Between Not Being “Sufficient” And Not Being “Worthy.”
The Fourth Gospel Speaks of Only One Shoe, the Others of Both. The Significance of This.
How the Word Stands in the Midst of Men Without Being Known of Them.
Heracleon's View of This Utterance of John the Baptist, and Interpretation of the Shoe of Jesus.
Jordan Means “Their Going Down.” Spiritual Meanings and Application of This.
Of Elijah and Elisha Crossing the Jordan.
Naaman the Syrian and the Jordan. No Other Stream Has the Same Healing Power.
The River of Egypt and Its Dragon, Contrasted with the Jordan.
Of What John Learned from Jesus When Mary Visited Elisabeth in the Hill Country.
Of the Conversation Between John and Jesus at the Baptism, Recorded by Matthew Only.
A Lamb Was Offered at the Morning and Evening Sacrifice. Significance of This.
The Morning and Evening Sacrifices of the Saint in His Life of Thought.
Jesus Comes to Capernaum. Statements of the Four Evangelists Regarding This.
What We are to Think of the Discrepancies Between the Different Gospels.
Why His Brothers are Not Called to the Wedding; And Why He Abides at Capernaum Not Many Days.
Of the Heavenly Festivals, of Which Those on Earth are Typical.
Spiritual Meaning of the Passover.
Discrepancy of the Gospel Narratives Connected with the Cleansing of the Temple.
Various Views of Heracleon on Purging of the Temple.
Further Spiritualizing of Solomon's Temple-Building.
Of the Belief the Disciples Afterwards Attained in the Words of Jesus.
The Difference Between Believing in the Name of Jesus and Believing in Jesus Himself.
About What Beings Jesus Needed Testimony.
How Jesus Knew the Powers, Better or Worse, Which Reside in Man.
Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew.
Origen's Commentary on Matthew.
From the First Book of the Commentary on Matthew.
From the Second Book of the Commentary on the Gospel According to Matthew.
The Parable of the Tares: the House of Jesus.
The Shining of the Righteous. Its Interpretation.
The Field and the Treasure Interpreted.
The Parable of the Pearl of Great Price. The Formation and Difference of Pearls.
The Parable Interpreted is the Light of These Views.
Christ the Pearl of Great Price.
The Pearl of the Gospel in Relation to the Old Testament.
The Divine Scriptures Compared to a Net.
The Householder and His Treasury.
Parables in Relation to Similitudes. Jesus in His Own Country.
Relation of Faith and Unbelief to the Supernatural Powers of Jesus.
Different Conceptions of John the Baptist.
The Dancing of Herodias. The Keeping of Oaths.
Introduction to the Feeding of the Five Thousand.
Exposition of the Details of the Miracle.
The Exposition of Details Continued. The Sitting Down on the Grass. The Division into Companies.
The Multitudes and the Disciples Contrasted.
The Disciples in Conflict. Jesus Walks Upon the Waters.
Interpretation of the Details in the Narrative. Application Thereof to All Disciples.
The Healing of the Sick on the Other Side. The Method of Healing.
The Traditions of the Elders in Collision with Divine Law.
Exposition of the Prophecy of Isaiah Quoted by Jesus.
Things Clean and Unclean According to the Law and the Gospel.
Why the Pharisees Were Not a Plant of God. Teaching of Origen on the “Bread of the Lord.”
Eating with Unwashed Heart Defiles the Man.
Concerning the Canaanitish Woman. Meaning of the “Borders of Tyre and Sidon.”
Exposition of the Details in the Narrative.
Concerning the Multitudes Who Were Healed. Comparison of the Mountain Where Jesus Sat to the Church.
Concerning Those Who Asked Him to Show Them a Sign from Heaven.
Why the Pharisees Asked a Sign from Heaven.
The Answer of Jesus to Their Request.
Why Jesus Called Them an Adulterous Generation. The Law as Husband.
Concerning the Leaven of the Pharisees.
The Meaning of Leaven. Jesus' Knowledge of the Heart.
Relative Magnitude of Sins of the Heart and Actual Sins.
The Leaven Figurative Like the Water Spoken of by Jesus to the Woman of Samaria.
The Promise Given to Peter Not Restricted to Him, But Applicable to All Disciples Like Him.
Every Sin—Every False Doctrine is a “Gate of Hades.”
The “Gates of Hades” And the “Gates of Zion” Contrasted.
In What Sense the “Keys” Are Given to Peter, and Every Peter. Limitations of This Power.
Gradual Growth in Knowledge of the Disciples.
Reasons for that Gradual Knowledge.
Jesus Was at First Proclaimed by the Twelve as a Worker and a Teacher Only.
Importance of the Proclamation of Jesus as the Crucified.
Why Jesus Had to Go to Jerusalem.
The Rebuke of Peter and the Answer of Jesus.
Importance of the Expressions “Behind” And “Turned.”
Peter as a Stumbling-Block to Jesus.
Self-Denial and Cross-Bearing.
Reference to the Saying of Paul About Crucifixion with Christ.
The Less of Life; And the Saving of It.
Life Lost to the World is Saved.
The Coming of the Son of Man in Glory.
The Word Appears in Different Forms; The Time of His Coming in Glory.
The Simpler Interpretation of the Promise About Not Tasting of Death.
Interpretation of “Tasting of Death.”
Meaning of “Until.” No Limitation of Promise.
Scriptural References to Death.
Concerning the Transfiguration of the Saviour.
Force of the Words “Before Them.”
The Garments White as the Light.
Jesus Was Transfigured—“As He Was Praying.”
Discussion of the Saying of Peter.
Figurative Interpretation of the Same.
The Meaning of the “Bright Cloud.”
Relation of Moses and Elijah to Jesus. The Injunction of Silence.
Relation of the Baptist to Elijah. The Theory of Transmigration Considered.
“The Spirit and Power of Elijah”—Not the Soul—Were in the Baptist.
Influence of the Moon and Stars on Men.
Jesus' Prediction of His “Delivery” Into the Hands of Men.
Satan and the “Delivery” Of Jesus.
Concerning Those Who Demanded the Half-Shekel.
Concerning Those Who Said, Who is the Greatest? and Concerning the Child that Was Called by Jesus.
Why the Great are Compared to Little Children.
The Little Ones and Their Stumbling-Blocks.
Who Was the Little Child Called by Jesus.
The Parallel Passages in Mark and Luke.
The World and Offences. Various Meanings of World.
The “Woe” Does Not Apply to the Disciples of Jesus.
What the “Occasions of Stumbling” Are.
The Offending Hand, or Foot, or Eye.
The Little Ones and Their Angels.
When the Little Ones are Assigned to Angels.
Close Relationship of Angels to Their “Little Ones.”
The Power of Harmony in Relation to Prayer.
The Harmony of Husband and Wife.
The Harmony of Body, Soul, and Spirit.
Harmony of the Old and New Covenants.
Exposition Continued: the King and the Servants.
The Principle of the Reckoning.
The Time Occupied by the Reckoning.
The Man Who Owed Many Talents.
The Servant Who Owed a Hundred Pence.
No Forgiveness to the Unforgiving.
Union of Christ and the Church.
Union of Angels and the Souls of Men.
The Marriage of Church Dignitaries.
Some Laws Given by Concession to Human Weakness.