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Recognitions of Clement.
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Book I.
Chapter I.—Clement’s Early
History; Doubts.
I Clement, who was born in
the city of Rome,534
| 534 [The first six
chapters closely resemble the corresponding chapters of Homily I.
The variations are no greater than might readily appear in a
version.—R.] | was from my
earliest age a lover of chastity; while the bent of my mind held me
bound as with chains of anxiety and sorrow. For a thought that
was in me—whence originating, I cannot tell—constantly led
me to think of my condition of mortality, and to discuss such questions
as these: Whether there be for me any life after death, or
whether I am to be wholly annihilated: whether I did not exist
before I was born, and whether there shall be no remembrance of this
life after death, and so the boundlessness of time shall consign all
things to oblivion and silence; so that not only we shall cease to be,
but there shall be no remembrance that we have ever been. This
also I revolved in my mind: when the world was made, or what was
before it was made, or whether it has existed from eternity. For
it seemed certain, that if it had been made, it must be doomed to
dissolution; and if it be dissolved, what is to be
afterwards?—unless, perhaps, all things shall be buried in
oblivion and silence, or something shall be, which the mind of man
cannot now conceive.
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