Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 23.1

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

Summary: Picture a trial: a godless father demands obedience against the law of Christ.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:174–175

Νόμισον εἶναι τὸ πρᾶγμα διαδικασίαν, ὁ μὲν πατήρ σοι δοκείτω παρεστὼς λέγειν ›ἐγώ σε ἔσπειρα καὶ ἔθρεψα, ἀκολούθει μοι καὶ συναδίκει καὶ μὴ πείθου τῷ Χριστοῦ νόμῳ‹ καὶ ὁπόσα ἂν εἴποι βλάσφημος ἄνθρωπος καὶ νεκρὸς τῇ

English · Claude translation

Imagine the matter to be a lawsuit. Let your father seem to stand before you and say, ‘I begot you and reared you; follow me, join me in wrongdoing, and do not obey the law of Christ,’ and whatever else a man might say who is a blasphemer and dead by

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Source: Stählin 3:174–175 · 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

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 23.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/23/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 23.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/23/1/).

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