Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 31.7

Summary: Christ commands us not to wait to be asked, but to seek out the worthy,

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Greek text · Stählin 3:180

Ὅρα πρῶτον μὲν ὡς οὐκ ἀπαιτεῖσθαί σε κεκέλευκεν οὐδὲ ἐνοχλεῖσθαι περιμένειν, ἀλλὰ αὐτὸν ζητεῖν τοὺς εὖ πεισομένους ἀξίους

See first that he has not commanded you to wait to be asked or pestered, but to seek out yourself those who are to be benefited and who are worthy,

Source: Stählin 3:180 · 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

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 31.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/31/7/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 31.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/31/7/).