character.

It is needless to say that his books well deserve study; but the study
is not smoothed by simplicity of style. Clement professed to despise
rhetoric, but was himself a rhetorician, and his style is turgid,
involved and difficult. He is singularly simple in his character. In
discussing marriage he refuses to use any but the plainest language. A
euphemism is with him a falsehood. But he is temperate in his opinions;
and the practical advices in the second and third books of the
_Paedagogue_ are remarkably sound and moderate. He is not always very
critical, and he is passionately fond of allegorical interpretations,
but these were the faults of his age.

All early writers speak of Clement in the highest terms of laudation,
and he certainly ought to have been a saint in any Church that reveres
saints. But Clement is not a saint in the Roman Church. He was a saint
up till the time of Benedict XIV., who read Photius on Clement, believed
him, and struck the Alexandrian's name out of the calendar. But many
Roman Catholic writers, though they yield a practical obedience to the
papal decision, have adduced good reason why it should be reversed
(Cognat, p. 451).

EDITIONS.--The standard edition of the collected works will be that of
O. Staehlin (first vol. containing _Protrepticus_ and _Paedagogus_,
Leipzig, 1905). Separate editions of _Strom_. vii., Hort and Major
(1902); _Q.D.S._, Barnard in _Texts and Studies_, v. 2 (1897); W.
Dindorf's edition in 4 vols. (Oxford, 1869) is little more than a
reprint of the text of Bishop Potter, 1715. For the _Fragments_ see
Zahn, _Forschungen zur Gesch. des neut. Kanons_, part iii., or Harnack
and Preuschen, _Gesch. der altch. Litt._, vol. i.

LITERATURE.--A copious bibliography will be found in Harnack,
_Chronologie_, vol. ii., or in Bardenhewer, _Gesch. der altk. Lit._
Either of these will supply the names of works upon Clement's biblical
text, his use of Stoic writers, his quotations from heathen writers,
and his relation to heathen philosophy. A valuable book is de Faye,
_Clem. d'Alex_. (1898). For his theological position see Harnack,
_Dogmengeschichte_; Hort, _Six Lectures on the Ante-Nicene Fathers_;
Westcott, "Clem, of Alex." in _Dict. Christ. Biog._; Bigg, _Christian
Platonists of Alex._ (1886). A book on Clement's relation to Mysticism
is wanted. (C. Bi.; J. D.)

FOOTNOTE:

[1] Zahn thinks we have part of them in the _Adum