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The Clementine Homilies.
Books I. to V. have been translated by
Rev. Thomas Smith, D.D.; Books VI.–XII. by Peter Peterson, M.A.;
and Books XIII.–XX. by Dr. Donaldson.
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Homily I.
Chapter I.—Boyish
Questionings.
I Clement, being a Roman
citizen,900
| 900 [The first six
chapters agree closely with the corresponding passage in the
Recognitions.—R.] | even from my earliest
youth was able to live chastely, my mind from my boyhood drawing away
the lust that was in me to dejection and distress. For I had a
habit of reasoning—how originating I know not—making
frequent cogitations concerning death: When I die, shall I
neither exist, nor shall any one ever have any remembrance of me, while
boundless time bears all things of all men into forgetfulness? and
shall I then be without being, or acquaintance with those who are;
neither knowing nor being known, neither having been nor being?
And has the world ever been made? and was there anything before it was
made? For if it has been always, it shall also continue to be;
but if it has been made, it shall also be dissolved. And after
its dissolution, shall there ever be anything again, unless, perhaps,
silence and forgetfulness? Or perhaps something shall be which is
not possible now to conceive.
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