Jainism Christianity and Science

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: The Indian Press Allahabad

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anything which they could hear be more ludicrous than-these to the multitude; nor any subjects on the other hand more admirable or more inspiring to those of noble nature. But the natural main receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him.' But the wise do not utter with their mouth what they reason in council . . . But there is only a delineation in the memoranda, which have the truth sowed sparse and broadcast, that it may escape the potice of those who pick up seeds like jackdaws; but when they find a good husbandman, each one of them will germinate and produce corn."-(Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. iv. p. 388.
"But well knowing that the Saviour teaches nothing in a merely human way, but teaches all things to his own with divine and mystic wisdom, we must not listen to His utterances carnally; but with due investigation and intelligence must search out and learn the meaning hidden in them. For even those things which seem to have been simplified to the disciples by the Lord Himself are found to require not less, even more, attention than what is expressed enigmatically, from the surpassing superabundance of wisdom in them. And whereas the things which, are thought to have been explained by Him to those within—those called by Him the children of the kingdom- require still more consideration than the things which seem to have been expressed simply, and respecting which therefore no questions were asked by those who heard them, but which, pertaining to the entire design of salvation, and to be contemplated with admirable and supercelestial depth of mind, we must not receive superficially with our ears, but with application of the mind to the very spirit of the Saviour, and the unuttered meaning of the declaration."-(Clement of Alexandria) A.N.C.L. vol. xxii. pt. ii. pp. 190-191.
"The STROMATA will contain the truth mixed up in the dogmas of philosophy, or rather covered over and hidden, as the edible part of the nut in the shell. For, in my opinion, it is fitting that the seeds of truth be kept for the husbandman of the faith, and no others."-(Olement) A.N.C.L. vol. iv. p. 359.
"It sufficeth the gnostic ... if only one bearer 15 found for him. You may hear therefore Pindar who writes, 'Divulge not before all the ancient speech.' The way of silence is sometimes the surest. And the mightiest word is a spur to the fight."-(Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. iv. P. 383.
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