Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 3.6

Greek text · Stählin 3:161–162

ἀλλʼ αὑτὸν ὑποβαλέτω φέρων γυμναστῇ μὲν τῷ λόγῳ. ἀγωνοθέτῃ δὲ τῷ Χριστῷ· τροφὴ δὲ αὐτῷ καὶ ποτὸν γενέσθω τεταγμένον ἡ καινὴ διαθήκη τοῦ κυρίου. γυμνάσια δὲ αἱ ἐντολαί. εὐσχημοσύνη δὲ καὶ κόσμος αἱ καλαὶ διαθέσεις, ἀγάπη, πίστις. ἐλπίς, γνῶσις ἀληθείας............. πραότης, εὐσπλαγχνία, σεμνότης, ἵνʼ, ὅταν ἡ ἐσχάτη σάλπιγξ ὑποσημήνῃ τοῦ δρόμου καὶ τῆς ἐντεῦθεν ἐξόδου καθάπερ ἐκ σταδίου τοῦ βίου, μετʼ ἀγαθοῦ τοῦ συνειδότος τῷ ἀθλοθέτῃ παραστῇ νικηφόρος, ὡμολογημένος τῆς ἄνω πατρίδος ἄξιος, εἰς ἣν μετὰ στεφάνων καὶ κηρυγμάτων ἀγγελικῶν ἐπανέρχεται.

English · Claude translation

Rather, let him submit himself to the Word as his trainer and to Christ as the president of the games. Let his appointed food and drink be the new covenant of the Lord; his exercises, the commandments; his grace and adornment, the fair dispositions: love, faith, hope, knowledge of the truth, … gentleness, compassion, dignity; so that when the last trumpet sounds for the race and the departure from here, as from the stadium of life, he may stand victorious with a good conscience before the Judge of the games, acknowledged worthy of the fatherland above, into which he returns with crowns and the proclamations of angels.

About this passage

Source

Stählin 3:161–162 · 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)

Scripture

1 Cor 15:52 · allusion, high confidence
1 Cor 9:24 · echo, medium confidence
2 Tim 4:7 · echo, medium confidence
2 Tim 4:8 · echo, medium confidence
1 Cor 13:13 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Ethics, Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

The dots mark a gap in the manuscript. “The last trumpet” is 1 Cor 15:52; the athletic image recalls 1 Cor 9:24–25 and 2 Tim 4:7–8.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (iota subscript missing): γυμναστῇ μὲν τῶ λόγῳ → γυμναστῇ μὲν τῷ λόγῳ.

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 3.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/3/6/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 3.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/3/6/).