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The Instructor (Paedagogus)

Clement of Alexandria · c. 198 AD

7h 47m read
Ante-Nicene

A guide to Christian living covering everything from eating and drinking to sleep and marriage, with Christ as the divine Instructor.

Table of Contents

1Book I1The Office of the Instructor2Our Instructor’s Treatment of Our Sins3The Philanthropy of the Instructor4Men and Women Alike Under the Instructor’s Charge5All Who Walk According to Truth are Children of God6The Name Children Does Not Imply Instruction in Elementary Principles7Who the Instructor Is, and Respecting His Instruction8Against Those Who Think that What is Just is Not Good9That It is the Prerogative of the Same Power to Be Beneficent and to Punish Justly. Also the Manner of the Instruction of the Logos10That the Same God, by the Same Word, Restrains from Sin by Threatening, and Saves Humanity by Exhorting11That the Word Instructed by the Law and the Prophets12The Instructor Characterized by the Severity and Benignity of Paternal Affection13Virtue Rational, Sin Irrational2Book II1Chap. I.—On Eating2On Drinking3On Costly Vessels4How to Conduct Ourselves at Feasts5On Laughter6On Filthy Speaking7Directions for Those Who Live Together8On the Use of Ointments and Crowns9Chap. IX.—On Sleep10Chapter X11On Clothes12Chap. XII.—On Shoes13Against Excessive Fondness for Jewels and Gold Ornaments3Book III1On the True Beauty2Against Embellishing the Body3Against Men Who Embellish Themselves4Behaviour in the Baths5The Christian Alone Rich6Frugality a Good Provision for the Christian7Similitudes and Examples a Most Important Part of Right Instruction8Why We are to Use the Bath9The Exercises Suited to a Good Life10A Compendious View of the Christian Life11Continuation: with Texts from Scripture