Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 42.6

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

Summary: Like an unbridled horse he plunged into ever greater crimes.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:189

ὃ δὲ κατʼ ὀλίγον προσειθίζετο καὶ διὰ μέγεθος φύσεως ἐκστὰς ὥσπερ ἄστομος καὶ εὔρωστος ἵππος ὀρθῆς ὁδοῦ καὶ τὸν χαλινὸν ἐνδακὼν μειζόνως κατὰ τῶν βαράθρων ἐφέρετο.

English · Claude translation

And he gradually grew used to it, and through the greatness of his nature, bolting from the right road like an unbridled and powerful horse, and biting the bit, he rushed all the more headlong toward the pits.

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Source: Stählin 3:189 · 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. 42.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/42/6/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 42.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/42/6/).

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