This study focuses on some aspects of the church father Clement of Alexandria’s interpretation of the sixth beatitude of the Sermon on the Mount, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God”. Clement connects “purity of heart” to the idea of withdrawal from evil and growth in practical well-doing and sees it as an intermediate phase and a process on the way towards the contemplation and knowledge of God. Being firmly placed in the Platonic tradition, the vision of God is of great importance for Clement’s theology. In most instances this vision, or contemplation, is something that occurs in the next life, but he also seems to think that it is something that may be experienced already in this life. Seeing God is then used as a metaphor for insight (gnosis), a knowledge of God that is mystical, or spiritual.

本研究侧重于亚历山大教父革利免对登山宝训第六福的解释的某些方面，“清心的人有福了，因为他们必得见上帝”。克莱门特将“心灵的纯洁”与远离邪恶和实际行善的想法联系起来，并将其视为一个中间阶段，是通往沉思和认识上帝的道路上的一个过程。上帝的异象牢牢地置于柏拉图的传统中，对克莱门特的神学非常重要。在大多数情况下，这种愿景或沉思是在来世发生的事情，但他似乎也认为这是在此生可能已经经历过的事情。看见上帝然后被用作洞察力的隐喻（gnosis)，一种关于上帝的神秘或精神知识。