{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/002/0020376.htm","path":"chr/ecf/002/0020376.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/002/0020376.htm","text":"Respecting faith we have adduced sufficient testimonies of writings among the Greeks. But in order not to exceed bounds, through eagerness to collect a very great many also respecting hope and love, suffice it merely to say that in the Crito Socrates, who prefers a good life and death to life itself, thinks that we have hope of another life after death.\nAlso in the Ph\u0153drus he says, \u201cThat only when in a separate state can the soul become partaker of the wisdom which is true, and surpasses human power; and when, having reached the end of hope by philosophic love, desire shall waft it to heaven, then,\u201d says he, \u201cdoes it receive the commencement of another, an immortal life.\u201d And in the Symposium he says, \u201cThat there is instilled into all the natural love of generating what is like, and in men of generating men alone, and in the good man of the generation of the counterpart of himself. But it is impossible for the good man to do this without possessing the perfect virtues, in which he will train the youth who have recourse to him.\u201d And as he says in the The\u0153tetus,\u201cHe will beget and finish men. For some procreate by the body, others by the soul;\u201d since also with the barbarian philosophers to teach and enlighten is called to regenerate; and \u201cI have begotten you in Jesus Christ,\u201d 2975 says the good apostle somewhere.\nEmpedocles, too, enumerates friendship among the elements, conceiving it as a combining love:\u2014\n \u201cWhich do you look at with your mind; and don\u2019t sit gaping with your eyes.\u201d\nParmenides, too, in his poem, alluding to hope, speaks thus:\u2014\np. 448\n \u201cYet look with the mind certainly on what is absent as present,\nFor it will not sever that which is from the grasp it has of that which is\nNot, even if scattered in every direction over the world or combined.\u201d","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol II: CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA: Chap. II.\u2014On Hope.","type":"page"}