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At this time Clement, being trained with him in the divine
Scriptures at Alexandria, became well known. He had the same name
as the one who anciently was at the head of the Roman church, and who
was a disciple of the apostles. In his Hypotyposes he speaks of
Pantaenus by name as his teacher. It seems to me that he alludes to
the same person also in the first book of his Stromata, when,
referring to the more conspicuous of the successors of the apostles whom
he had met, he says:
"This work is not a writing artfully constructed for display; but my
notes are stored up for old age, as a remedy against forgetfulness; an
image without art, and a rough sketch of those powerful and animated
words which it was my privilege to hear, as well as of blessed and
truly remarkable men. Of these the one the Ionian was in Greece,
the other in Magna Graecia; the one of them was from Coele-Syria,
the other from Egypt. There were others in the East, one of them an
Assyrian, the other a Hebrew in Palestine? But when I met with
the last, in ability truly he was first -- having hunted him out in
his concealment in Egypt, I found rest. These men, preserving the
true tradition of the blessed doctrine, directly from the holy
apostles, Peter and James and John and Paul, the son receiving it
from the father , have come by God's will even to us to deposit those
ancestral and apostolic seeds."
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