The library of Clement of Alexandria

1. Psalms David 30 authority · 1 extended 31 citations

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   book 1 · book 2 · book 3 · book 4 · book 5 · book 6 · book 7

   30 citations

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   1 citation

   For instance, it says, "providence from above, from the leading things as from a head, pervades all, as the ointment," it says, "that comes down upon the beard of Aaron and upon the hem of his garment" (that is, of the great high priest, "through whom all things came to be, and without him not one thing came to be") — not into the adorning of the body, but, outside the people, philosophy, like a garment.

2. First Epistle to the Corinthians Paul 17 authority · 2 endorsed 19 citations

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   book 1 · book 2 · book 3 · book 4 · book 5 · book 6 · book 7

   18 citations

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   1 citation

   And Paul does not hesitate, in a certain epistle, to address his own consort, whom he did not carry about with him because of the convenience of his ministry.

3. Isaiah Isaiah 16 authority · 2 neutral · 1 extended 19 citations

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   book 1 · book 2 · book 3 · book 4 · book 5 · book 6 · book 7

   16 citations

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   3 citations

   " And "his form was failing beyond all the sons of men," the prophecy foretold.

4. Epistle to the Romans Paul 14 authority · 2 extended · 1 endorsed 17 citations

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   book 1 · book 2 · book 3 · book 4 · book 5 · book 6 · book 7

   15 citations

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   2 citations

   Since those who introduce the doctrine of indifference do violence to a few Scriptures and think they argue in favour of their own indulgence—and indeed that one, "Sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace" (and certain others of this kind, which it is not reasonable to recall on such occasions;

5. Euripides 4 authority · 7 neutral · 2 extended · 2 endorsed 15 citations

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   book 1 · book 3 · book 4 · book 5 · book 6 · book 7

   14 citations

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   1 citation

   and the lovely sandals of the Sirens are fitted on, and I shall go, lifted high into the vast aether, to mingle with Zeus.

6. Homer 6 authority · 7 neutral · 1 refuted · 1 extended 15 citations

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   book 1 · book 2 · book 4 · book 5 · book 6

   12 citations

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   3 citations

   And you might find too the great poet Homer transferring word for word those verses, "Like a shoot that a man rears, a flourishing shoot of olive," and the rest, from Orpheus, out of the destruction of Dionysus.

7. Gospel of Matthew Matthew 11 authority · 1 extended 12 citations

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   book 1 · book 2 · book 3 · book 4 · book 6 · book 7

   11 citations

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   1 citation

   "Unless your righteousness exceed more than that of the scribes and Pharisees" — who are justified by abstention from evils — "by the being able, together with the perfection in these things, to love the neighbour too and to do good, you shall not be kingly.

8. Epistle to the Ephesians Paul 10 authority 10 citations

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   book 1 · book 3 · book 4 · book 5 · book 7

   8 citations

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   2 citations

   " All things, then, are ordered from above for good, "that through the Church the manifold wisdom of God may be made known," according to the foreknowledge of the ages, "which he wrought in Christ.

9. Gospel of John John 10 authority 10 citations

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   book 1 · book 2 · book 5 · book 6 · book 7

   9 citations

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   1 citation

   For instance, it says, "providence from above, from the leading things as from a head, pervades all, as the ointment," it says, "that comes down upon the beard of Aaron and upon the hem of his garment" (that is, of the great high priest, "through whom all things came to be, and without him not one thing came to be") — not into the adorning of the body, but, outside the people, philosophy, like a garment.

10. Aristotle 2 authority · 5 neutral · 2 extended 9 citations

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    book 1 · book 2 · book 5 · book 6 · book 8

    8 citations

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    1 citation

    And the Aristotelians say that of his writings some are esoteric, and some common and exoteric.

11. Epistle to the Galatians Paul 6 authority · 3 extended 9 citations

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    book 1 · book 2 · book 3 · book 4 · book 5 · book 7

    7 citations

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    2 citations

    "The law was added for the sake of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom it was promised.

12. Jeremiah Jeremiah 8 authority · 1 neutral 9 citations

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    book 1 · book 2 · book 3 · book 4 · book 5

    7 citations

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    2 citations

    And that the Scripture calls the foolish and disobedient "earth," Jeremiah the prophet will make plain, speaking against Joachim and his brothers:

13. Exodus Moses 7 authority 7 citations

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    book 2 · book 4 · book 5 · book 6

    6 citations

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    1 citation

    So when the memorial of the heavenly and divine food was commanded to be consecrated in a golden jar, "the gomor," it says, "was the tenth of the three measures.

14. Odyssey Homer 1 authority · 4 neutral · 1 refuted · 1 extended 7 citations

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    book 1 · book 4 · book 6

    4 citations

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    3 citations

    just as Sarah, the wife of Abraham, that blessed woman, herself prepared the cakes for the angels, and royal maidens among the Hebrews tended the sheep, whence too Nausicaa in Homer went to the washing-places.

15. Pindar 5 authority · 2 extended 7 citations

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    book 1 · book 2 · book 3 · book 4 · book 5

    6 citations

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    1 citation

    And Pindar downright brings in Zeus the Saviour too, dwelling with Themis, the king, the saviour, the just, interpreting somewhat thus:

16. Sophocles 1 authority · 5 neutral · 1 endorsed 7 citations

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    book 4 · book 5 · book 6

    5 citations

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    2 citations

    "What is sought is to be caught, but what is neglected slips away," according to Sophocles.

17. Deuteronomy Moses 6 authority 6 citations

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    book 1 · book 2 · book 5 · book 6

    5 citations

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    1 citation

    "Behold, I set before your face life and death, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in his ways, and to hear his voice, and to believe in the life;

18. Epistle to the Philippians Paul 4 authority · 1 endorsed 5 citations

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    book 1 · book 3 · book 4

    4 citations

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    1 citation

    "For this reason I pray," he says, "that your love may yet more and more abound in full knowledge and in all perception, that you may approve the things that differ.

19. Sibylline oracle the Sibyl 5 authority 5 citations

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    book 3 · book 5 · book 6

    3 citations

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    2 citations

    " This same prophetess calls the temples ruins, foretelling thus that the temple of Ephesian Artemis shall be swallowed up by chasms and earthquakes:

20. Callimachus 2 authority · 2 neutral 4 citations

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    book 5

    3 citations

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    1 citation

    For the poet Euphorion, and the Causes of Callimachus, and the Alexandra of Lycophron, and such-like works, are set as an exercise in exegesis for the boys of the grammarians.

21. Epistle to the Corinthians Clement (bishop of Rome) 3 authority · 1 extended 4 citations

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    book 1 · book 4 · book 6

    3 citations

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    1 citation

    Yes, and in the epistle to the Corinthians the apostle Clement too, himself sketching for us a kind of pattern of the gnostic, says:

22. Apollodorus 1 authority · 2 neutral 3 citations

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    2 citations

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    book 1

    1 citation

    And if you derive it from a certain Myous, an Athenian whom Apollodorus says was killed while hunting, I do not grudge it:

23. Hosea Hosea (the prophets) 3 authority 3 citations

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    book 4 · book 5

    2 citations

    Protrepticus

    1 citation

    "I desire mercy and not sacrifice.

24. Iliad Homer 1 authority · 1 extended · 1 endorsed 3 citations

    Protrepticus

    2 citations

    Stromata

    book 3

    1 citation

    " And not Menander only, but Homer too and Euripides and many other poets convict your gods, and do not fear to revile them, even to no small degree.

Each of these stands at a single passage, named once and not held by the library. The work that names it carries the anchor.

Who Is the Rich Man That Shall Be Saved?

Beatitudes (Blessed are the poor in spirit; Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness) · Epistle of John (teaching on brotherly love) · Epistle teaching on cheerful giving · Gospel sayings on judgment and reward for the treatment of the least of the brethren · Gospel sayings on the greatest commandment (Love of God and neighbour) · Hymn to Love (1 Corinthians 13) · Oral tradition/legend concerning John the Apostle · Prophetic oracle on mercy and forgiveness of sin (Hosea/Ezekiel-type sayings) · Sayings of the Lord concerning the rich man and eternal life · Sayings on almsgiving and treasure in heaven (mammon of unrighteousness; treasures in heaven) · Sayings on hating father, mother, and one's own soul; loving enemies · Teaching of the Apostle (Pauline doctrine on Law and grace)

Stromata

Ecclesiastes ¶ · Gospel according to the Egyptians · On Discoveries · On the Jews · Orphic verses · Proverbs (Wisdom literature) · Proverbs (Wisdom of Solomon) · Pythagorean precepts · The Shepherd ¶ · a tragedy · book of Esdras · chronological account of Alexander's crossing into Asia · comedies · comic verse · doctrines on the end (telos) · poem ¶ · prophetic scripture (Isaiah) · sayings of the Lord (Gospel tradition) · teaching of Basilides · the Phoronis · views on marriage · 1 Samuel ¶ · Aesop · Against Cleophon · Against the Greeks · Apocalypse of Zephaniah · Arcadica · Archilochi · Argonautica · Aristeas the Argive · Astrological Histories · Babylonian Discourses · Baruch · Basilidean doctrine of faith and election · Book of Daniel (Susanna) · Book of Judith · Chaldean histories · Chronicles ¶ · Chronography (chronological work) · Cleanthes · Customs of Asia · Cyrenaic doctrine · Daniel (prophecy of the seventy weeks) · Delphic oracle ¶ · Delphic oracle response · Demodocus · Deserters · Deucalioneia · Egyptian Histories · Ephesians and Titus · Epicurean doctrine of anticipation (prolepsis) · Epistle of Barnabas (gnostic tradition) · Epistle of Barnabas (interpretation of the dietary law) · Epistle of the Romans to the Corinthians · Epistle to Agathopus · Epistle to Titus (quoting Epimenides) · Epistles ¶ · Epistles (Galatians, Hebrews, 1 Corinthians) · Epistles and Acts (teaching on circumcision) · Epistles of Paul (on flesh and spirit) · Europia · Exagoge · Exegetica · Exegetica, book twenty-three · Exodus (He who is has sent me) · Exodus (commissioning of Bezalel) · Exodus (law of the open pit) · Expositions of the Prophet Parchor · Flute-Singing Satyrs · Fragment on mind and perception · Fragments (sayings of Epicharmus) · Fragments (sayings of Heraclitus) · Fragments (verses of Simonides) · Fragments of Heraclitus ¶ · Genealogies (unnamed work) · Genesis (narrative of Sarah, Hagar, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Tamar, and Judah) · Gospel (Luke) ¶ · Gospel (Matthew) ¶ · Gospel (Matthew, on divorce) · Gospel of Matthew (parable of the ten virgins) · Gospel of Matthew (sayings of the Lord) · Gospel saying on seeking and knocking · Gospel sayings · Gospel sayings of the Saviour · Grammatica · Heracleia and the Capture of Oechalia · Hymn on the Good · Isaiah (narrative) · Italica · Kingdoms · Know Thyself maxim · Law of Moses (Exodus and Deuteronomy) · Law of Moses (prohibition on the hire of a harlot and the price of a dog) · Letter concerning the appendages · Letter to Menoeceus · Leviticus (priestly purification law) · Life of Moses · Life of Pythagoras · Little Iliad · Magica · Misoumenos (a comedy) · Mosaic Law (lex talionis: eye for eye, life for life) · Mosaic dietary law (Leviticus/Deuteronomy) · On Abraham and the Egyptians · On Continence, or On Celibacy · On Divination · On Drunkenness · On Eight-months' Children · On Fortune · On Friends · On Goods and Evils · On Hesiod · On Indication · On Justice · On Kingship · On Life according to Nature · On Nature (fragments) · On Nourishment from Animals · On Oracles · On Perfection according to the Saviour · On Plato's ethics (three books) · On Pleasure (book 2) · On Prudence · On Pythagorean Philosophy · On Pythagorean Symbols · On the Adventitious Soul · On the Courage of the Philosophers · On the Egyptian Colony · On the End · On the Gods · On the Hebdomad · On the Kings in Judaea · On the Kings in Judaea (Eupolemus) · On the Kings in Judaea (on Moses as first wise man) · On the Nature of the World · On the Peculiarities of Contests · On the Poetry Ascribed to Orpheus · On the Poetry of Orpheus · On the Republic and Stoic doctrine · On the fact that the cause in ourselves toward happiness is greater than that from things · Oracles of Zoroaster · Orphic hymns and writings · Pandect ¶ · Pauline Epistles ¶ · Peripatetic doctrine on marriage · Preaching of Paul · Proverbs (Wisdom) · Proverbs (on the liar and the thief) · Proverbs (wisdom sayings) · Psalm 2 · Psalm 82 · Pythagorean doctrine of hope · Pythagorean number doctrine · Pythagorean oral tradition ("autos epha") · Pythagorean symbols · Pythagorean teaching ¶ · Pythagorean teaching (Muses sweeter than Sirens) · Replies to Heracleodorus · Republic (comic poem) · Romans (on Abraham's justification by faith) · Scripture ¶ · Scripture (Deuteronomy, evening and morning prayer) · Scripture (Exodus) · Scripture (Golden Rule saying) · Scripture (on being 'sold to strangers') · Silloi · Socratic doctrines · Song of Moses (Exodus) · Spartans and the Pytine · Stoic definition of the sun · Stoic doctrine ¶ · Stoic doctrine of God's corporeality · Stoic doctrine of assent · Stoic doctrine of divine perception · Stoic doctrine of predicates ('things-said') · Stoic doctrine of the vegetative soul · Stoic doctrine on marriage · Stoic doctrine on the soul · Stoic doctrine on the wise man's kingship · Superstitious Man and other comedies · Symposiaca · Teaching of Critolaus of Phaselis · The Feasts · The Law (Decalogue) ¶ · Theognis's poetry · Thesprotians and other verses · Titanomachy · Tobit · Torah (Deuteronomy / Joshua) · Traditions · Traditions of Matthias · Triagmoi · Tripod · Valentinian doctrine of faith and knowledge · Wisdom (Wisdom of Solomon) · Wisdom of Sirach · Wisdom sayings of Solomon · a comedy of Antiphanes · a comedy of Timocles · a homily of Valentinus · a lyric fragment · a philosophical poem · a poem of Empedocles · a poem of Solon · a prophetic oracle · a saying · a saying of Democritus · a saying of Epicharmus · a saying of Heraclitus · a saying on fatherhood · a saying on the soul's immortality · a tragedy concerning Hades · a tragedy concerning Laius · a treatise (unnamed) · a treatise on the moon's phases · allegorical interpretation of Hagar and Sarah · an altered/variant gospel text · an apocryphal book on primordial emanations · an apostolic epistle on mercy toward the doubting · an exposition of the writings of Moses · an ode · an ode (unnamed) · an ode on Apollo's birth · an ode on the seven-toned lyre · an oracle concerning Dionysus · an unnamed tragedy on begetting children · an unnamed tragedy on marriage · an unspecified Gospel · an unwritten saying attributed to the Lord · an unwritten saying of the Lord · ancient history of Cadmus · anecdote on the mouse omen · apophthegm on the pledge · apophthegms of Diogenes · apostolic and ecclesiastical tradition · apostolic tradition · chronological account of Troy to Alexander · comedy mocking Zeno's teaching · comedy mocking sign-watchers · comedy on sorcerers' purifications · comic fragment on madness · comic fragments · comic fragments on the changeability of life · comic verse on man · compiled discourse from Orpheus, Musaeus, Hesiod, and Homer · cosmogony of Zas · cosmological and mythological verses · doctrine and sayings of Epicurus · doctrine attributed to Basilides · doctrine of Democritus · doctrine of Xenocrates · doctrine of chance · doctrine of conflagration · doctrine of happiness · doctrine of salvation by nature · doctrine of the Creator distinct from the Good God · doctrine of the end · doctrine of the four roots · doctrine of the soul's immortality ¶ · doctrine of the soul's immortality and of transmigration · doctrine of transmigration of souls ¶ · doctrine of virtue as the end · doctrine on virtue and pleasure · doctrines of the elements (air, water, fire, atoms) · elegy on gifts · elegy on satiety and insolence · epigram of Sardanapallus · esoteric Pythagorean doctrine · fables and slanderous writings · first and second books of Kingdoms · fragment on gods' anthropomorphic forms · fragment on the soul · fragments on generation · fragments on poetic inspiration · fragments on the divine · gnomic sayings · gnomic sayings of the Greek sages · heretical teaching denying true martyrdom by death · his exposition of this Gospel saying · his teaching on creation · historical work on early Greece · history of the Assyrians · history of the fall of Ilium · history of the kings of the Jews · hymn to the Father · iambic fragments · iambic verses ¶ · inscription over the temple entrance · interpretation of the Ephesian letters · jest on the bag and mouse · leading doctrines · letter of Valentinus · maxim on friend and enemy · medical sayings · myth of Medea · myth of Virtue and Vice · myth of the two jars (Pandora) · ode to Love · one of the twelve prophets · opinion of Matthias · oracles of Jeremiah · oracular verse on Cretan mendacity · philosophic poetry · philosophical poem on nature · philosophical sayings · poem 'On Nature' (fragment on Truth and opinion) · poem featuring Nestor at the Simoeis · poem on being and hope · poems on faith, love, and disbelief · poet-theologians of the Greeks · practice of concealment in inner shrines · practice of concealment through the veil · prophecies of Isaiah · prophecy addressed to the Hebrews (Isaiah) · prophecy of Isaiah (the acceptable year of the Lord) · prophetic Scripture ¶ · prophetic oracles · prophetic scripture (unnamed prophet) · reply to Theodoridas · report of Macedonian priestly prayer · reported teaching of Socrates · restricted writings · sacrifices poem and Semele · satirical poem on Strife · saying of Aristippus · saying of Nicolaus · saying of Pythagoras · saying of Zeno on the Indians · saying on purity of mind and body · saying on the tongue of mortals · sayings and parables of the Gospel · sayings attributed to the Ephesian · sayings of Antisthenes · sayings of Thales · sayings on Zeus's omniscience · sayings on friendship · sayings on generation and death · sayings on the divine · sayings on the passions · sayings on the soul's ascent · secret writings · skeptical doctrine of universal suspension of judgement · sophism on speech and the house · statement on inferring the unseen and the counterfeit mind · teaching of Epicurus ¶ · teaching of Marcion ¶ · teaching of Pythagoras / the Pythagorean school · teaching of Socrates · teaching of Valentinus ¶ · teaching on boldness and wisdom · teaching on faith as natural intelligence · teaching on harmonic genera · teaching on symbolic speech · teaching on the Archon's astonishment · teaching on the needlessness of prayer · teaching on the sun as 'the striker' · teaching on virtue as habit · testimony on the fire at Sinai · the Danaid · the Epistles of Paul (Romans, Philippians, Galatians, 1 Corinthians, and others) · the Gospel (sayings of Jesus) · the Law (on adultery) · the Law of Moses ¶ · the Preaching (Kerygma Petrou) · the Prophets · the Scriptures (count of Jacob's descendants) · the Scriptures / the prophets · the Torah / Mosaic writings · the apostolic epistles · the doctrine of living according to nature · the forty-two sacred books · the new covenant oracle · the parable of the sower · the traditional Athenian harvest-wreath cry · the writings of Hystaspes · theology (theogonic writings) · tragedy (on Polyxena) · tragedy fragment on proportion · tragic poetry · treatise on the Egyptian gods · unknown tragic poet · unnamed tragedy on Orestes · unnamed tragic poet ¶ · unspecified comic fragment · unspecified history of Assyria · unspecified saying on philosophic inquiry · unspecified saying regarding the Greeks · unspecified sayings collection · unspecified verses on divine thoughts and opinion · unspecified work of Numenius · verse on the Muses · verses concerning the Sibyl · verses of Crates · verses of Solon · verses on Truth · verses on the divinization of the wise · verses on the four roots and on transmigration · work addressed to Philometor · writings on Peripatetic dependence on Moses

Protrepticus

unspecified poetic work ¶ · unspecified work describing Heracles's body · Aethlius · Argolic Affairs, book 2 · Athenodorus son of Sandon · Barbarian Customs · Chaldaic Affairs · Circuit of the Earth · Delphica · Dosidas · Epistle to Titus (cf. Titus 2:11-13) · Epistle to Titus (cf. Titus 3:3-5) · Epistle to the Ephesians (cf. Ephesians 2:12) · Epistle to the Ephesians (cf. Ephesians 2:2) · Epistle to the Ephesians (cf. Ephesians 2:3-5) · Epistle to the Philippians (cf. Philippians 2:6-7) · Epistles to Timothy ¶ · Foundations of Temples · Gospel of John (John 10:9) · Gospel of John (John 1:1) · Gospel sayings (cf. Matthew 3:7-9, 7:15) · Histories, book 9 · Isaiah (Isaiah 40:3) / Gospel of John (John 1:23) · Isaiah (Zion oracle, cf. Isaiah 2:3 / Micah 4:2) · Isaiah (cf. Isaiah 54:1) · Isidore · Italian Affairs, book 4 · Leandrius · Loves or Fair Ones (Erotes) · On Cnidus · On Concord, book 3 · On Cyprus · On Mysteries · Orphic poems (Baubo episode) · Orphic poems (rite of Dionysus) · Persian Affairs · Phrygian/Sabazian mystery formulas · Psalms (Psalm 19) · Psalms (Psalm 22) · Psalms (Psalm 82) · Psalms (cf. Psalm 110:3 LXX) · Psalms and Proverbs (Scripture) · Pythagorean teaching on the one God · Returns (Nostoi) · Samian Affairs · Sibylline verses · Staphylus · The Charioteer · The Priestess · Tragic Subjects, book 1 · Zenon of Myndus · antiquarian works (unspecified) · antiquarian/periegetic works (unspecified) · collection of marvels · comedy (unspecified) · epic poem (unspecified) · fragment on swine · fragments (unspecified) · local history of Lesbos · lyric poetry on the Muses' parentage · sayings attributed to Diagoras and companions · teaching of the elders · the Cycle, part 5 · the Eleusinian mystery watchword · the Gospel (sayings of Christ) ¶ · the Law of Moses (cf. Deuteronomy 23:1-2) · tragedies on the Dioscuri · unspecified historical work ¶ · unspecified prose work · verses of Empedocles ¶ · verses of an unnamed idolatrous poet · verses of the poets (unnamed) · work on Philopator, book 1 · writings of Didymus the grammarian

2 works in the library quote Clement of Alexandria — 4 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.

through Clement of Alexandria 3 citations · Stromata 1 citation

Clement of Alexandria 3 citations · Hugo Grotius 1 citation

The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the chapter that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of Clement of Alexandria is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.

1. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 authority · 2 extended 3 citations

   book 5 · book 6 · book 7

   The author explicitly cites his own earlier book as having already demonstrated a claim.

   We have shown, in the first book of the Stromateis, that the philosophers of the Greeks are called thieves, as having taken the most authoritative of their doctrines from Moses and the prophets without acknowledgement.

2. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 endorsed 1 citation

   ch. 31

   Named explicitly as source of the cited sentiment.

   The Greek Fathers have given the name of economy, or management to stratagems of this kind.