The Stromata Book 4
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- 2Chapter I.-Order of Contents.
- 3Chapter II.-The Meaning of the Name Stromata or Miscellanies.
- 4Chapter III.-The True Excellence of Man.
- 5Chapter IV.-The Praises of Martyrdom.
- 6Chapter V.-On Contempt for Pain, Poverty, and Other External Things.
- 7Chapter VI.-Some Points in the Beatitudes.
- 8Chapter VII.-The Blessedness of the Martyr.
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- 10Chapter IX.-Christ's Sayings Respecting Martyrdom.
- 11Chapter X.-Those Who Offered Themselves for Martyrdom Reproved.
- 12Chapter XI.-The Objection, Why Do You Suffer If God Cares for You, Answered.
- 13Chapter XII.-Basilides' Idea of Martyrdom Refuted.
- 14Chapter XIII.-Valentinian's Vagaries About the Abolition of Death Refuted.
- 15Chapter XIV.-The Love of All, Even of Our Enemies.
- 16Chapter XV.-On Avoiding Offence.
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- 18Chapter XVII.-Passages from Clement's Epistle to the Corinthians on Martyrdom.
- 19Chapter XVIII.-On Love, and the Repressing of Our Desires.
- 20Chapter XX.-A Good Wife.
- 21Chapter XXI.-Description of the Perfect Man, or Gnostic.
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- 23Chapter XXIII.-The Same Subject Continued.
- 24Chapter XXIV.-The Reason and End of Divine Punishments.
- 25Chapter XXV.-True Perfection Consists in the Knowledge and Love of God.
- 26Chapter XXVI.-How the Perfect Man Treats the Body and the Things of the World.