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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 37.4

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

Summary: Before offering himself as a ransom, Christ left a new covenant: his love.

Greek text · Stählin 3:184

καὶ μέλλων σπένδεσθαι καὶ λύτρον ἑαυτὸν ἐπιδιδοὺς καινὴν ἡμῖν διαθήκην καταλιμπάνει· »ἀγάπην ὑμῖν δίδωμι τὴν ἐμήν.« τίς δέ ἐστιν αὕτη καὶ πόση;

English · Claude translation

And when he was about to be poured out as a libation and was giving himself as a ransom, he left us a new covenant: “I give you my love.” What is this love, and how great?

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Source
Stählin 3:184 · 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
Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • The saying combines John 13:34 and 14:27; “ransom” is Mark 10:45.

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 37.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/37/4/).

Plain text
Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 37.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/37/4/).

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