s
lived according to the Logos; but _they who have made or make the
Logos or Reason the rule of their actions are Christians_, and men
without fear and trembling.'[5_1]

[Footnote 5_1:
[Greek: Ton christon prothotokon tou Theou einai edidhachthemen, kai
proemenhysamen Lhogon onta, ou pan ghenos anthrhopon methesche kai oi
meta Lhogou bihosantes christianohi eisi, kan atheoi enomhisthesan,
oion en Ellesi men Sokrhates kai Erhakleitos kai oi homoioi autois, en
barbarois de Abraam kai Ananias kai Asarias kai Misael kai Elhias kai
alloi polloi, on tas praxets e ta onomata katalegein makron einai
epistamenoi, tanyn paraitoymetha. oste kai oi progenomenoi aneu Ldgou
bihosantes, acrestoi ka.]]

'God,' says Clement,[6] 'is the cause of all that is good: only of
some good gifts He is the primary cause, as of the Old and New
Testaments, of others the secondary, as of (Greek) philosophy. But
even philosophy may have been given primarily by Him to the Greeks,
before the Lord had called the Greeks also. For that philosophy, like
a teacher, has guided the Greeks also, as the Law did the Hebrews,
towards Christ. Philosophy, therefore, prepares and opens the way to
those who are made perfect by Christ.'

[Footnote 6: Clem. Alex. Strom, lib. I, cap. v, Sec. 28.
[Greek: Panton
men gar aitios ton kalon d theos, alla ton men kata proegoumenon, hos
tes te diathekes tes palaias kai tes neas, ton de kat epakolouthema, hos
tes philosophias tacha de kai proegoumenos tois Ellesin edothe tote
prin e ton kurion kalesai kai tous Elleuas. Epaidagogei gar kai aute
to Ellenikon hos o nomos tous Ebraious eis Christon. proparaskeuixei
toinun e philosophia proodopoiousa ton hupo Christou teleioumenon.]]

And again: 'It is clear that the same God to whom we owe the Old and
New Testaments, gave also to the Greeks their Greek philosophy by
which the Almighty is glorified among the Greeks.'[7]

[Footnote 7: Strom, lib. VI, cap. V, Sec. 42.
[Greek: Eros de kai oti o
autos theos amphoin tain diathekain choregos, o kai tes Ellenikes
philosophias doter tois Ellesin, di es o pantokrator par Ellesi
doxazetai, parestesen, delon de kanthede.]]

And Clement was by no means the only one who spoke thus freely and
fearlessly, though, no doubt, his knowledge of Greek philosophy
qualified him better than many of his contemporaries to speak with
authority on such subjects.

St. Augustine writes: 'If the Gentiles also had possibly something
divine and true in th