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Book II

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The Stromata, or Miscellanies.

Book II.

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Chapter I.—Introductory.

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Chapter II.—The Knowledge of God Can Be Attained Only Through Faith.

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Chapter III.—Faith Not a Product of Nature.

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Chapter IV.—Faith the Foundation of All Knowledge.

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Chapter V.—He Proves by Several Examples that the Greeks Drew from the Sacred Writers.

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Chapter VI.—The Excellence and Utility of Faith.

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Chapter VII.—The Utility of Fear. Objections Answered.

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Chapter VIII.—The Vagaries of Basilides and Valentinus as to Fear Being the Cause of Things.

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Chapter IX.—The Connection of the Christian Virtues.

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Chapter X.—To What the Philosopher Applies Himself.

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Chapter XI.—The Knowledge Which Comes Through Faith the Surest of All.

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Chapter XII.—Twofold Faith.

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Chapter XIII.—On First and Second Repentance.

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Chapter XIV.—How a Thing May Be Involuntary.

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Chapter XV.—On the Different Kinds of Voluntary Actions, and the Sins Thence Proceeding.

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Chapter XVI.—How We are to Explain the Passages of Scripture Which Ascribe to God Human Affections.

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Chapter XVII.—On the Various Kinds of Knowledge.

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Chapter XVIII.—The Mosaic Law the Fountain of All Ethics, and the Source from Which the Greeks Drew Theirs.

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Chapter XIX.—The True Gnostic is an Imitator of God, Especially in Beneficence.

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Chapter XX.—The True Gnostic Exercises Patience and Self-Restraint.

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Chapter XXI.—Opinions of Various Philosophers on the Chief Good.

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Chapter XXII.—Plato’s Opinion, that the Chief Good Consists in Assimilation to God, and Its Agreement with Scripture.

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Chapter XXIII.—On Marriage.

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Elucidations

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