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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 37.6

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

Summary: John says that whoever does not love his brother is a murderer, a child of Cain, cut off from the vine and awaiting the fire.

Greek text · Stählin 3:184

θείως γε καὶ ἐπιπνόως ὁ Ἰωάννης »ὁ μὴ φιλῶν« φησὶ »τὸν ἀδελφὸν ἀνθρωποκτόνος ἐστί«, σπέρμα τοῦ Κάιν, θρέμμα τοῦ διαβόλου. θεοῦ σπλάγχνον οὐκ ἔχει, ἐλπίδα κρειττόνων οὐκ ἔχει. ἄσπορός ἐστιν, ἄγονός ἐστιν. οὐκ ἔστι κλῆμα τῆς ἀεὶ ζώσης ὑπερουρανίας ἀμπέλου, ἐκκόπτεται, τὸ πῦρ ἄθρουν ἀναμένει.

English · Claude translation

Divinely and inspiredly John says, “He who does not love his brother is a murderer”: a seed of Cain, a nursling of the devil. He has not the heart of God, he has no hope of better things. He is seedless, he is barren. He is not a branch of the ever-living supercelestial vine; he is cut off; he awaits the fire all at once.

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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
Ethics, Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is 1 John 3:15 (compare 3:12, Cain); the vine and branches are John 15:1–6.

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 37.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/37/6/).

Plain text
Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 37.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/37/6/).

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