Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 34.2

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

Summary: The redeemed rich man should enlist a different army: pious old men, orphans, and gentle widows.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:182

ὁ γεγευμένος ἀληθείας καὶ κατηξιωμένος τῆς μεγάλης λυτρώσεως, ἀλλὰ τὸ ἐναντίον τοῖς ἄλλοις ἀνθρώποις σεαυτῷ κατάλεξον στρατὸν ἄοπλον, ἀπόλεμον, ἀναίμακτον, ἀόργητον, ἀμίαντον, γέροντας θεοσεβεῖς. ὀρφανοὺς θεοφιλεῖς, χήρας πραότητι ὡπλισμένας.

English · Claude translation

you who have tasted truth and been counted worthy of the great redemption. On the contrary, unlike other people, enroll for yourself an army without weapons, without war, without bloodshed, without anger, without stain: God-fearing old men, orphans dear to God, widows armed with gentleness,

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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)
Topics: Ethics

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 34.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/34/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 34.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/34/2/).

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