h-work_, in
eight books. (4) [Greek: Tis o sozomenos plousios]; _Who is the Rich
Man that is Saved?_ (5) Eight books of [Greek: Hypotyposeis],
_Adumbrations or Outlines._ (6) _On the Passover._ (7) _Discourses on
Fasting._ (8) _On Slander._ (9) _Exhortation to Patience, or to the
Newly Baptized._ (10) The [Greek: Kanon ekklesiastikos], the _Rule of
the Church, or to those who Judaize_, a work dedicated to Alexander,
bishop of Jerusalem.

Of these, the first four have come down to us complete, or nearly
complete. The first three form together a progressive introduction to
Christianity corresponding to the stages through which the [Greek:
mystes] passed at Eleusis--purification, initiation, revelation. The
_Hortatory Address to the Greeks_ is an appeal to them to give up the
worship of their gods, and to devote themselves to the worship of the
one living and true God. Clement exhibits the absurdity and immorality
of the stories told with regard to the pagan deities, the cruelties
perpetrated in their worship, and the utter uselessness of bowing down
before images made by hands. He at the same time shows the Greeks that
their own greatest philosophers and poets recognized the unity of the
divine Being, and had caught glimpses of the true nature of God, but
that fuller light had been thrown on this subject by the Hebrew
prophets. He replies to the objection that it was not right to abandon
the customs of their forefathers, and points them to Christ as their
only safe guide to God.

The _Paedagogue_ is divided into three books. In the first Clement
discusses the necessity for and the true nature of the Paedagogus, and
shows how Christ as the Logos acted as Paedagogus, and still acts. In
the second and third books Clement enters into particulars, and
explains how the Christian following the Logos or Reason ought to
behave in the various circumstances of life--in eating, drinking,
furnishing a house, in dress, in the relations of social life, in the
care of the body, and similar concerns, and concludes with a general
description of the life of a Christian. Appended to the _Paedagogue_
are two hymns, which are, in all probability, the production of
Clement, though some have conjectured that they were portions of the
church service of that time. [Greek: stromateis] were bags in which
bedclothes ([Greek: stromata]) were kept. The phrase was used as a
book