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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 1.2

Clement of Alexandria · Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? · ca. 190–210 · Alexandria · Read in context

Summary: Flatterers of the rich are impious, because they give to human beings the glory that belongs to God alone.

Textual problem in this passage: the printed text is uncertain or disputed here. See the notes.

Greek text · Stählin 3:156

ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀσεβεῖς καὶ ἐπίβουλοι· ἀσεβεῖς μὲν, ὅτι παρέντες αἰνεῖν καὶ δοξάζειν τὸν μόνον τέλειον καὶ ἀγαθὸν θεόν, ἐξ οὗ τὰ πάντα καὶ διʼ οὗ τὰ πάντα καὶ εἰς ὃν τὰ πάντα, περιάπτουσι το........... τὸ γέρας ἀνθρώποις ἐνασ........... βίῳ κυλινδουμένοις.......

English · Claude translation

but also impious and treacherous: impious because, neglecting to praise and glorify the only perfect and good God, from whom are all things and through whom are all things and to whom are all things, they attach … the prize to men … wallowing in … life …

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Source
Stählin 3:156 · Otto Stählin, ed., Clemens Alexandrinus, vol. 3, Stromata Buch VII und VIII, Excerpta ex Theodoto, Eclogae propheticae, Quis dives salvetur, Fragmente, GCS 17 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1909) · Greek text: Otto Stählin, Clemens Alexandrinus 3 (GCS 17, 1909), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
Text
As printed in Stählin, GCS 17. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; the problem in this passage is discussed in the notes.
Translation
Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Stählin (1909); made independently of existing English translations.
Compare
Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 2 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)
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Notes

Translation notes

  • The dots mark gaps where the single surviving manuscript is damaged; the edition prints them as dots, and the translation does not fill them. The phrase “from whom … to whom are all things” echoes Rom 11:36.

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 1.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/1/2/).

Plain text
Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 1.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/1/2/).

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