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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 33.3

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

Summary: By testing too closely one may neglect God's friends and incur punishment; by giving to all one surely finds some who can intercede with God.

Greek text · Stählin 3:182

ἐκ μὲν γὰρ τοῦ φείδεσθαι καὶ προσποιεῖσθαι δοκιμάζειν τοὺς εὐλόγως ἢ μὴ τευξομένους ἐνδέχεταί σε καὶ θεοφιλῶν ἀμελῆσαί τινων, οὗ τὸ ἐπιτίμιον κόλασις ἔμπυρος αἰώνιος· ἐκ δὲ τοῦ προΐεσθαι πᾶσιν ἑξῆς τοῖς χρῄζουσιν ἀνάγκη πάντως εὑρεῖν τινα καὶ τῶν σῶσαι παρὰ θεῷ δυναμένων.

English · Claude translation

For by being sparing and pretending to test who will deserve to receive or not, you may neglect some who are loved by God, the penalty for which is eternal punishment by fire; but by giving to all in turn who are in need, you must surely find one of those who can save you with God.

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Source
Stählin 3:182 · 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)
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Topics
Ethics, Eschatology

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 33.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/33/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 33.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/33/3/).

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