Clement of Alexandria's Use of the Word 'Truth' in Chapter Fifteen of Book Six of Stromata

the Gnostic recognises the Son of the Omnipotent, not by His flesh conceived in the womb, but by the Father's own power. That it is therefore not only to those who read simply that the acquisition of the truth is so difficult, but that not even to those whose prerogative the knowledge of the truth is, is the contemplation of it vouch-safed all at once, the history of Moses teaches, until, accustomed to gaze, at the Hebrews on the glory of Moses, and the prophets of Israel on the visions of angels, so we also become able to look the splendours of truth in the face.

The reference to the Israelites gazing at 'the glory of Moses' is clearly an allusion to the enthronement of Moses in Deuteronomy 33.

Yet here is something I hadn't noticed before because I wasn't using the LXX.

In the blessing of Levi (v. 8) which follows instead of a mention of the priestly garments 'thy Thummim and thy Ummim be with thy holy one' which adorned the high priest the LXX makes only a mention of 'truth' (aletheia):

And to Levi he said, 'Give to Levi his manifestations and his truth to the holy one ... [who] kept thine oracles and observed thy covenant. They shall declare thine ordinances to Jacob and thy law to Israel; they shall place incense in the time of thy wrath continually upon thine altar.

I suspect that Clement could have seen in these words a 'prophesy' of the emergence of Christianity.

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