Clement of Alexandria

In the time of Pantaenus, Clement became known at Alexandria, training with him in the divine Scriptures. He had the same name as the man who long before had led the church of the Romans, a disciple of the apostles. [a] In the Outlines he composed he mentions Pantaenus by name as his teacher, and it seems to me that he hints at the same man in the first book of his Miscellanies, where he points out the more prominent members of the apostolic succession he had come upon, saying: [b]

“Now this work is not a writing worked up for display. My notes are stored up for old age, a remedy against forgetfulness, an artless image and sketch of those clear and living words I was counted worthy to hear, and of blessed and truly remarkable men. Of these, one, the Ionian, was in Greece; another was in Magna Graecia; another of them was from Coele-Syria, and another from Egypt. Others were in the East, one of them an Assyrian, and another in Palestine, a Hebrew by descent. When I came upon the last, who in power was really the first, I found rest, having tracked him down where he lay hidden in Egypt. [c] These men, preserving the true tradition of the blessed teaching directly from Peter and James and John and Paul, the holy apostles, son receiving it from father (though few are like their fathers), came, with God’s help, even to us, to deposit those ancestral and apostolic seeds.” [d]