CHAP. I.—ON EATING. KEEPING, then, to our aim, and selecting the Scriptures which bear on the usefulness of training for life, we must now compendiously describe what the man who is called a Christian ought to be during the whole…
Read moreCHAP. I.—ON THE TRUE BEAUTY. IT iS then, as appears, the greatest of all lessons to know one’s self. For if one knows himself, he will know God; and knowing God, he will be made like God, not by wearing…
Read moreCHAP. I.—PREFACE—THE AUTHOR’S OBJECT—THE UTILITY OF WRITTEN COMPOSITIONS. [Wants the beginning] ……….that you may read them under your hand, and may be able to preserve them. Whether written compositions are not to be left behind at …
Read moreCHAP. I.—INTRODUCTORY. As Scripture has called the Greeks pilferers of the Barbarian2 philosophy, it will next have to be considered how this may be briefly demonstrated. For we shall not only show that they have imitated and copied the marvels…
Read moreCHAPTER I I. The Valentinians, who hold that the union of man and woman is derived from the divine emanation in heaven above, approve of marriage. The followers of Basilides, on the other hand, say that when the apostles asked…
Read moreCHAP. I.—ORDER OF CONTENTS. It will follow, I think, that I should treat of martyrdom, and of who the perfect man is. With these points shall be included what follows in accordance with the demands of the points to be…
Read moreCHAP. I.—ON FAITH Of the Gnostic so much has been cursorily, as it were, written. We proceed now to the sequel, and must again contemplate faith; for there are some that draw the distinction, that faith has reference to the…
Read moreCHAP. I. PLAN. THE sixth and also the seventh Miscellany of Gnostic notes, in accordance with the true philosophy, having delineated as well as possible the ethical argument conveyed in them, and having exhibited what the Gnostic is in his…
Read moreCHAP. l.—THE GNOSTIC A TRUE WORSHIPPER OF GOD, AND UNJUSTLY CALUMNIATED BY UNBELIEVERS AS AN ATHEIST. It is now time to show the Greeks that the Gnostic alone is truly pious; so that the philosophers, learning of what description the…
Read moreI.—COMMENTS ON THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PETER. CHAP. i. 3. “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who by His great mercy hath regenerated us.” For if God generated us of matter, He afterwards, by progress…
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