All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
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Clement Of Alexandria
AD 215
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The divine Instructor is trustworthy, adorned as He is with three of the fairest ornament"-knowledge, benevolence, and authority of utterance;-with knowledge, for He is the paternal wisdom: "All Wisdom is from the Lord, and with Him for evermore; "-with authority of utterance, for He is God and Creator: "For all things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made; ".
He that is illuminated is therefore awake towards God; and such an one lives. "For what was made in Him was life.".
At home, therefore, they ought to regard with modesty parents and domestics; in the ways, those they meet; in the baths, women; in solitude, themselves; and everywhere the Word, who is everywhere, "and without Him was not anything.".
But a rational work is accomplished through God. "And nothing "it is said, "was made without Him"-the Word of God.
And since the unoriginated Being is one, the Omnipotent God; one, too, is the First-begotten, "by whom all things were made, and without whom not one thing ever was made.".
"Understand now for me the mystery of the truth, granting pardon if I shrink from advancing further in the treatment of it, by announcing this alone: "All things were made by Him, and without Him was not even one thing.".
and if "all things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made".
"by whom all things were made, and without whom not even one thing was made.".
(that is, of the great High Priest, "by whom all things were made, and without whom not even one thing was made".
For the knowledge and apprehension of intellectual objects must necessarily be called certain scientific knowledge, whose function in reference to divine things is to consider what is the First Cause, and what that "by whom all things were made, and without whom nothing was made; "
