Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 35.1

Greek text · Stählin 3:183

Ἐνεργοὶ οὗτοι πάντες [οἱ] στρατιῶται καὶ φύλακες βέβαιοι. οὐδεὶς ἀργός, οὐδεὶς ἀχρεῖος. ὃ μὲν ἐξαιτήσασθαί σε δύναται παρὰ θεοῦ. ὃ δὲ παραμυθήσασθαι κάμνοντα, ὃ δὲ δακρῦσαι καὶ στενάξαι συμπαθῶς ὑπὲρ σοῦ πρὸς τὸν κύριον τῶν ὅλων, ὃ δὲ διδάξαι τι τῶν πρὸς τὴν σωτηρίαν χρησίμων, ὃ δὲ νουθετῆσαι μετὰ παρρησίας, ὃ δὲ συμβουλεῦσαι μετʼ εὐνοίας, πάντες δὲ φιλεῖν ἀληθῶς, ἀδόλως, ἀφόβως. ἀνυποκρίτως, ἀκολακεύτως.

English · Claude translation

All these are active soldiers and sure guards. No one is idle, no one useless. One can obtain your pardon from God; another can comfort you when you are sick; another can weep and groan in sympathy for you before the Lord of all; another can teach you something useful for salvation; another can admonish you with boldness; another can counsel you with goodwill; and all can love you truly, without guile, without fear, without hypocrisy, without flattery,

About this passage

Source

Stählin 3:183 · 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

Prayer, Ethics

Notes

Translation notes

The bracketed word in the Greek is the editor's deletion.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent on the relative ὃ): ὅ δὲ παραμυθήσασθαι → ὃ δὲ παραμυθήσασθαι; ὅ δὲ διδάξαι → ὃ δὲ διδάξαι.

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 35.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/35/1/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 35.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/35/1/).