Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 21.7

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

Summary: To follow Christ is to strive for his sinlessness and perfection, shaping one's soul by him as by a mirror.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:174

τοῦτο γὰρ ἀκολουθεῖν ὄντως τῷ σωτῆρι. ἀναμαρτησίαν καὶ τελειότητα τὴν ἐκείνου μετερχόμενον καὶ πρὸς ἐκεῖνον ὥσπερ κάτοπτρον κοσμοῦντα καὶ ῥυθμίζοντα τὴν ψυχὴν καὶ πάντα διὰ πάντων ὁμοίως διατιθέντα.

English · Claude translation

For this is truly to follow the Savior: to pursue his sinlessness and perfection, and, looking to him as to a mirror, to adorn and order the soul, and to arrange everything in every way alike.

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Source: Stählin 3:174 · 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, Christology

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 21.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/21/7/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 21.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/21/7/).

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