_The Miscellanies_,[587] in eight books, contain an attack upon
heresy and the heathen. The material is arranged promiscuously and
the chapters are not in order, the reason for which he himself gives
at the end of the seventh book in the following words: “Since these
points have been thoroughly discussed, and our ethical formula has
been sketched summarily and fragmentarily, as we promised, teachings
calculated to kindle the flame of true knowledge being scattered here
and there, so that the discovery of the sacred mysteries may not be
easy to any one of the uninitiated,” and so on. This, he himself
says, is the reason why the subject-matter is so unsystematically
arranged. In an old copy I have found the title of this work not
only given as _Miscellanies_, but in full as follows: _Miscellany of
Gnostic Notes in accordance with the True Philosophy, books 1-8_.
The first seven books have the same title, and are identical in all
the copies. The title of the eighth, however, varies, as does the
subject-matter. In some copies it is called _Who is the Rich Man
that is saved?_ and begins, “Those who ... laudatory speeches,”
etc.; in others it is called _The Miscellanies, the eighth book_,
like the other seven, and begins, “But not even the oldest of the
philosophers,” etc. The work in some parts is unsound, but not like
the _Outlines_, some of whose statements it refutes.
Clement is said to have written several other works, of which the
following are mentioned by other writers: _On Easter_; _On Fasting_;
_On Evil-speaking_; _On the Ecclesiastical Canons, and against
those who follow the Erroneous Doctrine of the Jews_, dedicated to
Alexander, bishop of Jerusalem. He flourished during the reign of
Severus and his son Antoninus at Rome.