Much Victorian poetry is tinged with a melancholy for a lost world, a yearning for a quasi-mythological time of peace which was denied to the men and women of 19th century England.
The epistle Diognetus, in the Ante-Nicene Fathers, is ascribed to Mathetes, a Christian apologist writing to a gentile who is interested in the beliefs of the Christians. Due to its style and content is is often dated in the early second century, and hence in the second book in ANF01.
The primary theme of Clement's letter to the Corinthians is humility. Clement, using continual examples from the lives of Old Testament saints and the teaching of Jesus, Paul and Peter, reminds the Corinthian church of the way of humility.
There is procession in God without disunity of his being. As an intellectual nature, God has two internal processions of the highest kind - the procession of his intellect and the procession of his will. His intellect can be called generation since it is the begetting of an idea perfectly matching his being, and his will is called procession because it proceeds towards the thing loved.
God is happy because happiness is something unique to intellectual beings which posses their perfect good. God is himself perfect and an intellectual being, so possessing himself he is happy.
The glory of humanity over the angels