Hope
idea · 5 works · 7 mentions · 11 anchored passages
hope · amal · elpis · hopes · the rein of hope · vain hopes · الأمل · الامانى · عنان الأمل
in the texts
Stromata
Hope, defined as an expectation of good built upon faith and grouped among the virtues that advance toward knowledge.
And indeed the first inclination toward salvation appears to us as faith, after which fear and hope and repentance, together with self-control and endurance, advancing, lead us on both to love and to knowledge.
And hope too is composed of faith.
" And, knowing hope to be twofold — the one expected, the other received back — he teaches that the restoration of hope is already the end;
Adab al-wazīr
Hope (amal), presented both as the instrument by which a rival is led and as the illusion that sustains souls against death.
Souls, though they go in dread of death — have hopes that hold them up;
Safety from the days and from the people of the days is one of the lies of vain hopes;
Orations
Personified concept named as an aspect of Fortune's uncertainty.
Fortune has been called by many names among men:
Works and Days
The personified spirit of Hope, the only thing that remains trapped within Pandora's jar after all other evils escape into the world.
Only Hope remained there in an unbreakable home within under the rim of the great jar, and did not fly out at the door;
History of the Peloponnesian War
The psychological reliance on hope invoked by both sides: warned against by the Athenians as ruinous self-deception, and clung to by the Melians as grounds for resistance.
Hope, which is the solace of danger, when entertained by those who have abundant means, though it may injure, yet does not ruin them.
but by making an effort there is yet hope of our keeping ourselves up.