“For God, of His great love to man, comes to the help of man, as the mother-bird flies to one of her young that has fallen out of the nest; and if a serpent open its mouth to swallow the little bird, ‘the mother flutters round, uttering cries of grief over her dear progeny; ‘ and God the Father seeks His creature, and heals his transgression, and pursues the serpent, and recovers the young one, and incites it to fly up to the nest”
— Clement of Alexandria
From Exhortations to the Heathen 10.
Clement of Alexandria (c. 150-215) converted to Christianity from paganism and became a pioneering scholar and head of the catechol school in the North African city of Alexandria.
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