delivered unwritten …’83 The goal of the Christian was to know these things and to behold them. This gave knowledge of past, present and future, and was Clement’s way of describing the vision of God and the knowledge that this brought. ‘As the Hebrews gazed on the glory of Moses and the prophets of Israel on the vision of angels, so we also become able to look the splendours of truth in the face.’84 The person who attained the vision was transformed by it into a heavenly being. ‘In this way it is