-title by Origen and others, and is equivalent to our
"miscellanies." It is difficult to give a brief account of the varied
contents of the book. Sometimes Clement discusses chronology,
sometimes philosophy, sometimes poetry, entering into the most minute
critical and chronological details; but one object runs through all,
and this is to show what the true Christian Gnostic is, and what is
his relation to philosophy. The work was in eight books. The first
seven are complete. The eighth now extant is really an incomplete
treatise on logic. Some critics have rejected this book as spurious,
since its matter is so different from that of the rest. Others,
however, have held to its genuineness, because in a Patch-work or Book
of Miscellanies the difference of subject is no sound objection, and
because Photius seems to have regarded our present eighth book as
genuine (Phot. cod. iii. p. 89b, Bekker).

The treatise _Who is the Rich Man that is Saved?_ is an admirable
exposition of the narrative contained in St Mark's Gospel x. 17-31.
Here Clement argues that wealth, if rightly used, is not unchristian.

The _Hypotyposes_[1] in eight books, have not come down to us.
Cassiodorus translated them into Latin, freely altering to suit his
own ideas of orthodoxy. Both Eusebius and Photius describe the work.
It was a short commentary on all the books of Scripture, including
some of the apocryphal works, such as the Epistle of Barnabas and the
Revelation of Peter. Photius speaks in strong language of the impiety
of some opinions in the book (_Bibl._ cod. 109, p. 89 a Bekker), but
his statements are such as to prove conclusively that he must have had
a corrupt copy, or read very carelessly, or grossly misunderstood
Clement. Notes in Latin on the first epistle of Peter, the epistle of
Jude, and the first two of John have come down to us; but whether they
are the translation of Cassiodorus, or indeed a translation of
Clement's work at all, is a matter of dispute.

The treatise on the Passover was occasioned by a work of Melito on the
same subject. Two fragments of this treatise were given by Petavius,
and are contained in the modern editions.

We know nothing of the work called _The Ecclesiastical Canon_ from any
external testimony. Clement himself often mentions the [Greek:
ekklesiastikos kanon], and defines it as the agreement and harmony of
the law and the prophet