Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 25.3

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

Summary: There is outward persecution, from those who harass believers through enmity, envy, greed, or the devil.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:176

τὸ δὲ »μετὰ διωγμῶν« ταῦτα ἕκαστα ἔχειν ἀποδοκιμάζει· διωγμὸς δὲ ὃ μέν τις ἔξωθεν περιγίνεται τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἢ διʼ ἔχθραν ἢ διὰ φθόνον ἢ διὰ φιλοκέρδειαν ἢ κατʼ ἐνέργειαν διαβολικὴν τοὺς πιστοὺς ἐλαυνόντων·

English · Claude translation

But the words “with persecutions” reject having each of these things. One kind of persecution comes from outside, from people who harass the faithful out of enmity, envy, love of gain, or at the devil's instigation;

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Source: Stählin 3:176 · 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: Persecution

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 25.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/25/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 25.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/25/3/).

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