Book V

The Stromata, or Miscellanies · Clement of Alexandria

1. Chap. I.—On Faith.
2. Chap. II.—On Hope.
3. Chapter III.—The Objects of Faith and Hope Perceived by the Mind Alone.
4. Chapter IV.—Divine Things Wrapped Up in Figures Both in the Sacred and in Heathen Writers.
5. Chapter V.—On the Symbols of Pythagoras.
6. Chapter VI.—The Mystic Meaning of the Tabernacle and Its Furniture.
7. Chapter VII.—The Egyptian Symbols and Enigmas of Sacred Things.
8. Chapter VIII.—The Use of the Symbolic Style by Poets and Philosophers.
9. Chapter IX.—Reasons for Veiling the Truth in Symbols.
10. Chapter X.—The Opinion of the Apostles on Veiling the Mysteries of the Faith.
11. Chapter XI.—Abstraction from Material Things Necessary in Order to Attain to the True Knowledge of God.
12. Chapter XII.—God Cannot Be Embraced in Words or by the Mind.
13. Chapter XIII.—The Knowledge of God a Divine Gift, According to the Philosophers.
14. Chapter XIV.—Greek Plagiarism from the Hebrews.
15. Elucidations