Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 6.3

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

Summary: As God, Christ knows in advance the questions and answers, as Lord of every prophetic spirit.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:164

πρόοιδε δὲ ὡς θεὸς καὶ ἃ μέλλει διερωτηθήσεσθαι καὶ ἃ μέλλει τις αὐτῷ ἀποκρίνεσθαι. τίς γὰρ καὶ μᾶλλον ἢ ὁ προφήτης προφητῶν καὶ κύριος παντὸς προφητικοῦ πνεύματος;

English · Claude translation

As God, he knows beforehand both what he will be asked and what someone will answer him. For who should know this better than the Prophet of prophets and Lord of every prophetic spirit?

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Source: Stählin 3:164 · 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)
Topics: Christology

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Digital text corrected (accent and breathing: ἢ (“than”)): καὶ μᾶλλον ἣ ὁ προφήτης → καὶ μᾶλλον ἢ ὁ προφήτης.

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 6.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/6/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 6.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/6/3/).

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