each text must be interpreted in the light of the rest of Scripture. This means primarily that every text must be understood within its proper and immediate context. But Clement understands this exegetical principle in a much wider sense, so that it leads him to rather involved allegorical interpretations. The manner in which he applies this principle is usually to seek other texts in which the same ideas, the same things, the same names, or even the same numbers appear, to see how they are to be understood