Clement of Alexandria

Philo, the Jew, Lib. I. de Vita Mosis), relates that Moses learned in Egypt, Arithmetic, Geometry, Music and Symbolical Philosophy, which was written only in sacred characters, Astronomy and Mathematics. Saint Clement of Alexandria adds to these Medicine and the knowledge of Hieroglyphics, which the priests taught only to their sons, and the sons of the kings of their country. 

Clement of Alexandria, 22, 86 Climacus, Johannes, 27 Cohaussen, Jean-Henri, 44 Colberg, Ehregott Daniel, 62 Condorcet, Jean, 58 Conti, Natale, 30 Corbin, Henry, 18, 65 Comutus, 21... 

Clement of Alexandria, Stromata iii, see Graves, 1946, p vii Graves, 1989, pp263-267 Graves, 1989, pp262-267 Acts 21 22... 

At the beginning of the third century, Clement of Alexandria also condemned pagan society for its many vices. He described wealthy women who, on the one hand, rescued baby birds that had fallen from their nests, but, on the other hand, who exposed their own children and those born to members of their household. Echoing Justin, Clement described fathers who frequently abandoned their offspring, fathers whose lustful ways subsequently led them unknowingly to commit incest with their own children in the brothels of the Egyptian capital. ... 

In the late second century, Clement of Alexandria vividly described a procession he witnessed in Alexandria in honor of the god Osiris ... 

In the third century, even Clement of Alexandria would adopt the image of Jesus as kosmokrator, in the guise of a new Orpheus bringing the music of the spheres to re-tune the cosmos ... 

For Philo, see my note 10. To cite here only one later Christian arriculation of the same idea, see Clement of Alexandria, EcLProph. 55 (3.152.15-19). 

Clement of Alexandria. Stromateis. n A Library of the Nicene and Ante-Nicene Fathers. Vol. 2. Edinburgh T. T. Clark, 1989. 

Excerpta ex Theodoto of Clement of Alexandria. Edited by Robert Peirce Casey. Studies and Documents 1. London Christophers, 1934. 

Dial. Tryph. Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Ttypho EcLProph. Clement of Alexandria, Prophetic Ecbgues... 

See Augustine, Confessions book 12. Many Fathers used the Timaeus to interpret Genesis 1.1-2, including Justin Martyr, Clement of Alexandria, Eusebius and Augustine. 

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