but especially the OT prophets and John the Evangelist, the “theologian” of the deity of Jesus. Notable, too, in this regard were early church teachers like Gregory of Nazianzus with his three hundred discourses on the Trinity, or later, Symeon, the new “theologian.” Clement himself, of course, also called philosophical knowledge of the divine “theological” (Strom. 1.28.176). But this knowledge is to be understood as spiritual vision, which, as in Plato, is numbered among the mysteries. Nor is theology
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