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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 18.7

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

Summary: Our final destiny depends on the soul's disposition: obedience and purity, or transgression and vice.

Greek text · Stählin 3:171

καὶ μηκέτι ζητῶμεν ἀλλαχοῦ τὴν αἰτίαν τοῦ τέλους πλὴν ἐν τῇ τῆς ψυχῆς καταστάσει καὶ διαθέσει πρός τε ὑπακοὴν θεοῦ καὶ καθαρότητα πρός τε παράβασιν ἐντολῶν καὶ κακίας συλλογήν.

English · Claude translation

And let us no longer seek the cause of our end anywhere else than in the state and disposition of the soul, toward obedience to God and purity, or toward transgression of the commandments and the accumulation of vice.

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Source
Stählin 3:171 · 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; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
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)
Topics
Ethics, Eschatology

Notes

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (stray raised point in the digital text): πρός τε παράβασιν· ἐντολῶν → πρός τε παράβασιν ἐντολῶν.

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 18.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/18/7/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 18.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/18/7/).

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