Chapter III: Book IV: 1. Order of Contents, 139

2. The meaning of the name Stromata [Miscellanies], 140

3. The true Excellence of Man, 142

4. The Praises of Martyrdom, 145

5. On Contempt for Pain, Poverty, and other external things, 148

6. Some points in the Beatitudes, 150

7. The Blessedness of the Martyr, 158

8. Women as well as Men, Slaves as well as Freemen,
Candidates for the Martyr’s Crown, 165

9. Christ’s Sayings respecting Martyrdom, 170

10. Those who offered themselves for Martyrdom reproved, 173

11. The objection, Why do you suffer if God cares for you,
answered, 174

12. Basilides’ idea of Martyrdom refuted, 175

13. Valentinian’s Vagaries about the Abolition of Death
refuted, 179

14. The Love of All, even of our Enemies, 182

15. On avoiding Offence, 183

16. Passages of Scripture respecting the Constancy, Patience,
and Love of the Martyrs, 184

17. Passages from Clement’s Epistle to the Corinthians on
Martyrdom, 187

18. On Love, and the repressing of our Desires, 190

19. Women as well as Men capable of Perfection, 193

20. A Good Wife, 196

21. Description of the Perfect Man, or Gnostic, 199

22. The true Gnostic does Good, not from fear of Punishment
or hope of Reward, but only for the sake of Good
itself, 202

23. The same subject continued, 207

24. The reason and end of Divine Punishments, 210

25. True Perfection consists in the Knowledge and Love of God, 212

26. How the Perfect Man treats the Body and the Things of the
World, 215