Clement of Alexandria I: Protrepticus and Paedagogus

...both regarding divine Scriptures and the instruments of secular literature. From these, the following are his: eight books of Stromateis, eight books of Hypotyposes, one book Against the Gentiles, three books of the Paedagogus, one book On the Passover, a discussion On Fasting, and another book inscribed: Who is the Rich Man that is Saved?, one book On Slander, one book On Ecclesiastical Canons and Against those who follow the error of the Jews, which he specifically addressed to Alexander, bishop of Jerusalem. He mentions in his Stromateis the volume of Tatian Against the Gentiles, which we spoke of above, and the chronography of a certain Cassian, a work I could not find. He also refers to the Jewish writers Aristobulus, Demetrius, and Eupolemus, who wrote against the Gentiles, and who, similar to Josephus, asserted the archaeology ancient history of Moses and the Jewish race. There exists a letter of Alexander, bishop of Jerusalem, who later ruled the church with Narcissus, regarding the ordination of the confessor Asclepiades, congratulating the Antiochenes, in which he places at the end:

"These things, lord brothers, I have sent to you written by the hand of the blessed presbyter Clement, an illustrious and approved man, whom you also know and will now know more fully, who, having come here according to the providence and visitation of God, strengthened and increased the Church of the Lord."

It is established that Origen was his disciple. He flourished during the times of Severus and his son Antoninus. Letter 70, 4 to Magnus: "Clement, presbyter of the Alexandrian Church, in my judgment the most learned of all, wrote eight books of Stromateis, and as many of Hypotyposes, and another Against the Gentiles, and three volumes of the Paedagogus. What in those books is unlearned, or rather, what is not from the heart of philosophy?" Imitating him, Origen wrote ten Stromateis. Apologia adv. libr. Ruf. original: "Apologia adversus libros Rufini" I 13: "Origen himself, and Clement, and Eusebius, and many others, when they dispute something regarding the scriptures and wish to approve what they say, usually write thus:"

"A Hebrew related to me"

and

"I heard from a Hebrew"

and

"This is the opinion of the Hebrews."

Rufinus in Jerome, ibid. II 17: "He also writes that Clement, presbyter of the Alexandrian church, a Catholic man, says in his books that the Son of God was created." See Rufinus, Epilogue to the Apology of Pamphilus (Migne, Series Graeca 17, Col. 621).

Anastasius Sinaita, Homily on Psalm 6, Migne 89, Col. 1105: "For Clement the historian of Alexandria writes..." (there follows the story from Who is the Rich Man that is Saved? 42) and Col. 1136: "Clement the author... the wise historian discusses this in one of his Stromateis discourses." See Commentary on Hexaëmeron I, Migne 89, Col. 860. In Pitra, Anal. sacr. original: "Analecta sacra" II p. 208, he speaks of "accurate and unadulterated and ancient copies... transcribed by Clement."