{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/002/0020341.htm","path":"chr/ecf/002/0020341.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/002/0020341.htm","text":"As, then, Knowledge (\u1f10\u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03ae\u03bc\u03b7) is an intellectual state, from which results the act of knowing, and becomes apprehension irrefragable by reason; so also ignorance is a receding impression, which can be dislodged by reason. And that which is overthrown as well as that which is elaborated by reason, is in our power. Akin to Knowledge is experience, cognition (\u03b5\u1f34\u03b4\u03b7\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2), Comprehension (\u03c3\u03cd\u03bd\u03b5\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2), perception, and Science. Cognition (\u03b5\u1f34\u03b4\u03b7\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2) is the knowledge of universals by species; and Experience is comprehensive knowledge, which investigates the nature of each thing. Perception (\u03bd\u03cc\u03b7\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2) is the knowledge of intellectual objects; and Comprehension (\u03c3\u03cd\u03bd\u03b5\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2) is the knowledge of what is compared, or a comparison that cannot be annulled, or the faculty of comparing the objects with which Judgment and Knowledge are occupied, both of one and each and all that goes to make up one reason. And Science (\u03b3\u03bd\u1ff6\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2) is the knowledge of the thing in itself, or the knowledge which harmonizes with what takes place. Truth is the knowledge of the true; and the mental habit of truth is the knowledge of the things which are true. Now knowledge is constituted by the reason, and cannot be overthrown by another reason. 2330 What we do not, we do not either from not being able, or not being willing\u2014or both. Accordingly we don\u2019t fly, since we neither can nor wish; we do not swim at present, for example, since we can indeed, but do not choose; and we are not as the Lord, since we wish, but cannot be: \u201cfor no disciple is above his master, and it is sufficient if we be as the master:\u201d 2331 not in essence (for it is impossible for that, which is by adoption, to be equal in substance to that, which is by nature); but [we are as Him] only in our 2332 having been made immortal, and our being conversant with the contemplation of realities, and beholding the Father through what belongs to Him.\nTherefore volition takes the precedence of all; for the intellectual powers are ministers of the Will. \u201cWill,\u201d it is said, \u201cand thou shalt be able.\u201d 2333 And in the Gnostic, Will, Judgment, and Exertion are identical. For if the determinations are the same, the opinions and judgments will be the same too; so that both his words, and life, and conduct, are conformable to rule. \u201cAnd a right heart seeketh knowledge, p. 365 and heareth it.\u201d \u201cGod taught me wisdom, and I knew the knowledge of the holy.\u201d 2334\n\u1f10\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1\u1fe6\u03b8\u03b1 \u03c4\u1f74\u03bd \u03b3\u03bd\u1ff6\u03c3\u03b9\u03bd \u03c0\u03bf\u03bb\u03c5\u03c0\u03c1\u03b1\u03b3\u03bc\u03bf\u03bd\u03b5\u1fd6 appears in the text, which, with great probability, is supposed to be a marginal note which got into the text, the indicative being substituted for the imperative.\n364:2331 364:2332\nAdopting Sylburgius\u2019 conjecture of \u03c4\u1ff7 \u03b4\u03ad for \u03c4\u1f78 \u03b4\u03ad.\n364:2333\nPerhaps in allusion to the leper\u2019s words to Christ, \u201cIf Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean\u201d (Mark i. 40).\n365:2334","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol II: CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA: Chapter XVII.\u2014On the Various Kinds of Knowledge.","type":"page"}