Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 6.1

Greek text · Stählin 3:163–164

Ἠρώτηται μὲν γὰρ ἡδέως ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν καὶ σωτὴρ ἐρώτημα καταλληλότατον αὐτῷ, ἡ ζωὴ περὶ ζωῆς, ὁ σωτὴρ περὶ σωτηρίας. ὁ διδάσκαλος περὶ κεφαλαίου [οὐ τῶν διδασκομένων δογμάτων. ἡ ἀλήθεια περὶ τῆς ἀληθινῆς ἀθανασίας, ὁ λόγος περὶ τοῦ πατρῴου λόγου. ὁ τέλειος περὶ τῆς τελείας ἀναπαύσεως, ὁ ἄφθαρτος περὶ τῆς βεβαίας ἀφθαρσίας.

English · Claude translation

Our Lord and Savior is gladly asked a question most fitting for him: the Life about life, the Savior about salvation, the Teacher about the chief point of the doctrines taught, the Truth about true immortality, the Word about the Father's word, the Perfect about perfect rest, the Incorruptible about sure incorruption.

About this passage

Source

Stählin 3:163–164 · 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

John 14:6 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Translation notes

The Greek has an opening square bracket without a closing one before “the doctrines taught”; the editor's intended deletion is unclear, and the translation follows the sense.

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 6.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/6/1/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 6.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/6/1/).