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io8 Different Interpretations CHAP. iv.
mankind which had been in no way relieved from them,
the heathen world. It may be considered doubtful to what
precise extent S. Clement of Alexandria, the earlier schools
great exponent on this question, represents the sentiments
of the actual early Church at large upon it. He acknow
ledges in his writings the existence, and answers the objec
tions, of a part of the Church that did not 1
agree with him.
But it is difficult to j tidge of the size or importance of this
part ; and a great writer is in later ages legitimately sup
posed, in the absence of express evidence to the contrary,
and if tradition has attached authority to his name, to
represent the mind of his age.
Clement of Alexandria, then, on this subject, takes what
may be called the natural view of the facts which meet his
eye. He acknowledges the noble affections, the moral
virtues, even the religious acts, of the heathen as real and
genuine, only as not reaching so high a standard as those
of the Christian. The authority of Scripture is claimed,
and the Apostle is cited as saying that the uncircurncision
kept the 2
righteousness of the law. There was a first puri
fication of the soul, which resulted in abstaining from evil ;
a 3
second, which advanced to positive goodness. Attention
is drawn to the moral lessons of heathen poets, to the
4 labours of lawgivers, to the ascetic fruits of the Buddhist
and 5 Brahman religions, to the worship which Athens igno-
rantly paid to the true God.
But the philosophy of the heathen, as the highest effort
of their moral as well as intellectual faculties, their dis
cipline of life and school of perfection as well as guide to
^ Oi TroAAoi Se, Ka.Qa.Trep ol TratSes TOVTOW TO yevos, ol fjikv ~2,apfj.dvai.
ra noppoXfaia OVTWS oeoiaffi T^V avTwi/, ol 8e Bpax/J-dvai KaKov^voi
EAArj/cV ^i\o(TO(piav, (f>oov/j.evoi ^ teal T&V Zap/j.avwv ol A\\6ioi irpoffaairaydyr)
aurovs. Potter s ed. v. ii.
yopeuo/iej/oi, oure ir6\eis OIKOVCTIV,
p. 780. No! fafflv yeypd^eai, irdvres otfre (Treyas ^X ovff^, HevSpuv 5e
oi
Trpb TTJS Trapovffias TOV Kvpiov, a.^i4vvvvra.i KCU <p\oiois, a.Kp68pva
KAeTrrai etVt Kal \7jo-Tat. Vol. i. p. crtTovvrai, Kal
vSoopTOis -^^VKivov-
Strom. 1. 1. c. 19.
oiv, ov yd/j.ov, ov irai8otro(a.v tcraffiv,
&o"irfp ol vvi/ Ibid. 1. 6. c. 7.
EyKparyTdi Ka\ov/Afvoi.
Elffl Se T>V IvSuv ol rots E6vrra
Ibid. 1. 1. c. 14, 15.
Trei06fj.ei/oi irapayyc\iji.ao-ivbv St re
Ivouv re of
IVroo-ocJuo-Tai, ^A\oi
<S>i\o<r6$oi Qdpfapoi. Airrbv 8e
6o\^v o-e^TTjros els eov
Kacrt. Strom. 1. 1. c. 15.
virep-