Now of Clement there are preserved among us eight Stromateis in all, which he also deemed worthy of such a title as this: 「Titus Flavius Clement's Stromateis of gnostic memoirs according to the true philosophy.」
Equal in number to these are the books of his entitled Hypotyposeis (Outlines), in which he mentions Pantaenus by name as his teacher, setting down his expositions and laying out his traditions.
He has also a treatise addressed to the Greeks, the Protrepticus (Exhortation); and three books of that entitled the Paedagogus (Tutor); and another treatise of his entitled 「Who is the rich man that is saved」; and the work on the Pascha; and discourses on Fasting, and on Slander; and the Exhortation to Endurance, or to the Newly Baptized; and that entitled the Ecclesiastical Canon, or Against the Judaizers, which he has dedicated to Alexander, the bishop mentioned above.
Now in the Stromateis he has made a tapestry not only of the divine Scripture but also of the writings of the Greeks, if indeed anything useful seemed to have been said by them too; and he mentions the doctrines current among the many, unfolding those of the Greeks together with those of the barbarians.
And further, correcting the false opinions of the heresiarchs, he unfolds much history, furnishing us with a foundation of much-learned instruction. With all these he also mingles the doctrines of the philosophers, whence he has fittingly made the title of the Stromateis correspond to its subject-matter.
And in them he has also made use of testimonies from the disputed Scriptures—of the so-called Wisdom of Solomon, and of that of Jesus son of Sirach, and of the Epistle to the Hebrews, and those of Barnabas and Clement and Jude.
He also mentions Tatian's discourse Against the Greeks, and Cassian, as having himself too composed a chronography; and furthermore Philo and Aristobulus, Josephus and Demetrius and Eupolemus, Jewish writers, as all these had shown in writing that Moses and the Jewish nation were more ancient than the primeval origin among the Greeks.
And the said discourses of the man happen to be full of very much other useful learning, in the first of which he makes clear concerning himself that he came very near to the succession of the apostles. And in them he also promises to write commentaries on Genesis.
And in his treatise on the Pascha he confesses that he was constrained by his companions to hand down in writing, for those who should come after, the traditions which he chanced to have heard from the ancient presbyters. And in it he makes mention of Melito and Irenaeus and certain others, whose accounts also he has set down.