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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 40.5

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

Summary: Repentance means abandoning each sin, restoring what was stolen, and curbing the passions, so as to be reconciled before one's death.

Greek text · Stählin 3:186–187

ὁ κλέπτης, ἄφεσιν βούλει λαβεῖν; μηκέτι κλέπτε· ὁ μοιχεύσας, μηκέτι πυρούσθω· ὁ πορνεύσας, λοιπὸν ἁγνευέτω· ὁ ἁρπάσας, ἀποδίδου καὶ προσαποδίδου· ὁ ψευδομάρτυς. ἀλήθειαν ἄσκησον· ὁ ἐπίορκος, μηκέτι ὄμνυε· καὶ τὰ ἄλλα πάθη σύντεμε, ὀργήν, ἐπιθυμίαν, λύπην. φόβον, ἵνα εὑρεθῇς ἐπὶ τῆς ἐξόδου πρὸς τὸν ἀντίδικον ἐνταῦθα διαλελύσθαι φθάνων.

English · Claude translation

Thief, do you want to receive forgiveness? Steal no more. Adulterer, burn no longer. Fornicator, from now on be chaste. Robber, give back, and give back more. False witness, practice truth. Perjurer, swear no more. And cut short the other passions: anger, desire, grief, fear; so that at your departure you may be found to have already been reconciled here with your adversary.

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Source
Stählin 3:186–187 · 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)
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Notes

Translation notes

  • The allusions are Eph 4:28 (the thief), 1 Cor 7:9 (burning), Luke 19:8 (restoring more), and Matt 5:25 (the adversary).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 40.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/40/5/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 40.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/40/5/).

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