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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 42.1

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

Summary: To show that true repentance brings hope, Clement tells a true story about the apostle John.

Greek text · Stählin 3:187–188

Ἵνα δὲ ἐπιθαρρήσῃς, οὕτω μετανοήσας ἀληθῶς, ὅτι σοὶ μένει σωτηρίας ἐλπὶς ἀξιόχρεως, ἄκουσον μῦθον οὐ μῦθον, ἀλλὰ ὄντα λόγον περὶ Ἰωάννου τοῦ ἀποστόλου παραδεδομένον καὶ μνήμῃ πεφυλαγμένον.

English · Claude translation

And so that you may take courage, if you repent truly in this way, that a worthy hope of salvation remains for you, hear a story that is no story but a true account, handed down and preserved in memory, about John the apostle.

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Source
Stählin 3:187–188 · 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
Ethics

Notes

Translation notes

  • The story of John and the young robber (42.1–15) is quoted from this work by Eusebius, Church History 3.23.

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 42.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/42/1/).

Plain text
Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 42.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/42/1/).

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