Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 33.1

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

Summary: The Lord gives the kingdom for the sake of his friends, and to the friends of his friends.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:181

Πῶς οὖν ὁ ἄνθρωπος ταῦτα δίδωσιν; ὅτι διὰ τὴν ἐκείνου τιμὴν καὶ εὔνοιαν καὶ οἰκείωσιν ὁ κύριος δίδωσι· »δώσω γὰρ οὐ μόνον τοῖς φίλοις, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῖς φίλοις τῶν φίλων.«

English · Claude translation

How then does a man give these things? Because the Lord gives them on account of that man's honor, goodwill, and intimacy with him: “For I will give not only to my friends, but also to the friends of my friends.”

About this passage

Source: Stählin 3:181 · 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

Notes

Translation notes

The saying is not found in the canonical Gospels (an agraphon).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 33.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/33/1/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 33.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/33/1/).

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