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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 33.6

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

Summary: Do not reject the poor, ugly, or weak: their body is only an outward form, and within them dwell the Father and the Son who died and rose for us.

Greek text · Stählin 3:182

μὴ πρὸς ἡλικίαν ἀμελῶς διατεθείς, μηδʼ εἴ τις ἀκτήμων ἢ δυσείμων ἢ δυσειδὴς ἢ ἀσθενὴς φαίνεται, πρὸς τοῦτο τῇ ψυχῇ δυσχεράνῃς καὶ ἀποστραφῇς. σχῆμα τοῦτʼ ἔστιν ἔξωθεν ἡμῖν περιβεβλημένον τῆς εἰς κόσμον παρόδου προφάσει, ἵνʼ εἰς τὸ κοινὸν τοῦτο παιδευτήριον εἰσελθεῖν δυνηθῶμεν· ἀλλʼ ἔνδον κρυπτὸς ἐνοικεῖ ὁ πατὴρ καὶ ὁ τούτου παῖς ὁ ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ἀποθανὼν καὶ μεθʼ ἡμῶν ἀναστάς.

English · Claude translation

nor disposed carelessly toward their age; nor, if someone appears without property, or ill-clad, or ugly, or weak, be disgusted at this in your soul and turn away. This is a form thrown around us from outside, on the occasion of our passage into the world, so that we may be able to enter this common school; but within dwells hidden the Father and his Son, who died for us and rose with us.

About this passage

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)
Scripture
Topics
Ethics, Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • The indwelling of the Father and the Son recalls John 14:23.

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 33.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/33/6/).

Plain text
Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 33.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/33/6/).

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