Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 42.5

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

Summary: Left to himself too soon, the young man was corrupted by idle companions, first by feasts, then by robbery.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:188–189

τῷ δὲ ἀνέσεως πρὸ ὥρας λαβομένῳ προσφθείρονταί τινες ἥλικες ἀργοὶ καὶ ἀπερρωγότες, ἐθάδες κακῶν· καὶ πρῶτον μὲν διʼ ἑστιάσεων πολυτελῶν αὐτὸν ὑπάγονται. εἶτά που καὶ νύκτωρ ἐπὶ λωποδυσίαν ἐξιόντες συνεπάγονται, εἶτά τι καὶ μεῖζον συμπράττειν ἠξίουν.

English · Claude translation

But, as he had gained freedom too early, some idle, dissolute young men of his age, accustomed to evil, corrupted him. First they drew him on with expensive banquets; then they took him along when they went out at night to rob; then they thought fit to have him join in something greater.

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Source: Stählin 3:188–189 · 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

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 42.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/42/5/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 42.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/42/5/).

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