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  • Chapter 8 - The True Prophet in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies

  • from Part II - Status, Role, and Functions of Human Intermediaries
  • Edited by Elsa Giovanna Simonetti, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, Claire Hall, University of Durham
  • Book:
    Divination and Revelation in Later Antiquity
    Published online:
    19 October 2023
    Print publication:
    02 November 2023, pp 159-176

  • Summary

    Philosophy, magic and Scripture are not capable of leading men to the knowledge of truth. According to Pseudo-Clement, truth is revealed only by the True Prophet, because he alone possesses full knowledge of it. Anyone can recognise the True Prophet, provided that they are animated by a genuine desire to know the truth and that they meet a genuine witness. The witness does not prove the truth of the doctrine that he teaches, but he puts the hearers in the presence of the One from whom he has himself received the truth. Truth – though rationally arguable – is not conceptual knowledge, but evidence derived from the encounter, mediated by authentic witnesses, between the seeker and the Prophet.