{"id":49,"date":"2017-10-27T21:45:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T18:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2017-10-27T21:45:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T18:45:20","slug":"clement-of-alexandria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/49\/clement-of-alexandria\/","title":{"rendered":"Clement of Alexandria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In contradistinction to the older people, the new people are called young, having learned the new blessings; and we have the exuberance of life&#8217;s morning prime in this youth which knows no old age, in which we are always growing to maturity in intelligence, are always young, always mild, always new: for those must necessarily be new, who have become partakers of the new Word. And that which participates in eternity is wont to be assimilated to the incorruptible: so that to us appertains the designation of the age of childhood, a lifelong spring &#8211; time, because the truth that is in us, and our habits saturated with the truth, cannot be touched by old age; but Wisdom is ever blooming, ever remains consistent and the same, and never changes. &#8230; The spirit of those that are children in Christ, whose lives are ordered in endurance, rejoice. And this is the divine sport. &#8220;Such a sport, of his own, Jove sports,&#8221; says Heraclitus. For what other employment is seemly for a wise and perfect man, than to sport and be glad in the endurance of what is good &#8211; and, in the administration of what is good, holding festival with God? &#8211; Clement of Alexandria : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellopos.net\/elpenor\/greek-texts\/fathers\/clement-child.asp\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellopos.net\/elpenor\/greek-texts\/fathers\/clement-alexandria\/default.asp\">CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA HOME PAGE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Full Texts:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellopos.net\/elpenor\/greek-texts\/fathers\/clement-alexandria\/exhortation-heathen.asp\">CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA: Exhortation (Protrepticus)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellopos.net\/elpenor\/greek-texts\/fathers\/clement-alexandria\/instructor.asp\">CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA: Instructor (Paedagogus)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellopos.net\/elpenor\/greek-texts\/fathers\/clement-alexandria\/miscellanies.asp\">CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA: Stromata (Miscellanies)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellopos.net\/elpenor\/greek-texts\/fathers\/clement-alexandria\/salvation-rich-man.asp\">CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA: On the Salvation of the Rich Man<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellopos.net\/elpenor\/greek-texts\/fathers\/clement-alexandria\/introduction.asp\">An Introduction to Clement of Alexandria<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Clement of Alexandria: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellopos.net\/elpenor\/greek-texts\/fathers\/clement-child.asp\">O the perfect child!<\/a> (in Greek and English side by side)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellopos.net\/notebook\/clement.asp\">Clement of Alexandria on Christian monasticism<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clement of Alexandria and the beginnings of Christian platonism, by R.<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.earlychurch.org.uk\/pdf\/casey.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Casey<\/a> (pdf)<\/p>\n<p>Clement of Alexandria, by Mark <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coptic.net\/articles\/ClementOfAlexandria.txt\" target=\"_blank\">Moussa<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellopos.net\/elpenor\/greek-texts\/fathers\/migne-patrologia-graeca.asp\">Migne Patrologia Graeca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In contradistinction to the older people, the new people are called young, having learned the new blessings; and we have the exuberance of life&#8217;s morning prime in this youth which knows no old age, in which we are always growing to maturity in intelligence, are always young, always mild, always new: for those must necessarily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_disable_autopaging":false},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[118,747,746,108,107],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-elpenor-greek-library","tag-byzantium","tag-christian-monasticism","tag-christian-platonism","tag-clement","tag-clement-of-alexandria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}