Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 36.3

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

Summary: The world was made for the sake of these saints and will be dissolved when they are gathered in.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:183

διʼ ὃ καὶ τὰ φανερὰ καὶ τὰ ἀφανῆ τοῦ κόσμου δεδημιούργηται, τὰ μὲν εἰς δουλείαν, τὰ δὲ εἰς ἄσκησιν. τὰ δὲ εἰς μάθησιν αὐτῷ. καὶ πάντα, μέχρις ἂν ἐνταῦθα τὸ σπέρμα μένῃ. συνέχεται, καὶ συναχθέντος αὐτοῦ πάντα τάχιστα λυθήσεται.

English · Claude translation

for whose sake both the visible and the invisible things of the world were created, some for its service, some for its training, some for its instruction. And all things hold together as long as the seed remains here; and when it has been gathered in, all things will very quickly be dissolved.

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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)

Extrabiblical texts

Justin, 2 Apol. 6 (Second Apology) · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

Compare the similar thought in Diogn. 6.7 and Justin, 2 Apol. 6.

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 36.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/36/3/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 36.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/36/3/).

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