Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 2.4

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

Summary: Clement is speaking about rich believers, not about unbelievers; those who love the truth and the brethren have a duty toward them.

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

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Greek text · Stählin 3:161

λέγω δὲ ταῦτα. ἑκάτερα περὶ τῶν πλουσίων τῶν καὶ τῆς δυνάμεως τοῦ σωτῆρος καὶ τῆς ἐπιφανοῦς σωτηρίας ᾐσθημένων, τῶν δὲ ἀμυήτων τῆς ἀληθείας ὀλίγον μοι μέλει. Χρὴ τοίνυν τοὺς φιλαλήθως καὶ φιλαδέλφως................

English · Claude translation

I say both of these things about the rich who have perceived the Savior's power and his manifest salvation; for those uninitiated into the truth I care little. It is necessary, then, for those who … with love of truth and love of the brethren …

About this passage

Source: Stählin 3:161 · 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)
Topics: Ethics

Notes

Translation notes

The dots mark a gap in the manuscript; the sentence continues in the next section.

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 2.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/2/4/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 2.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/2/4/).

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