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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 6.4

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

Summary: Called “good,” Jesus turns the questioner to God, the only Good, who gives eternal life through the Son.

Greek text · Stählin 3:164

κληθεὶς δὲ ἀγαθός. ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ πρώτου τοῦ ῥήματος τούτου τὸ ἐνδόσιμον λαβὼν ἐντεῦθεν καὶ τῆς διδασκαλίας ἄρχεται, ἐπιστρέφων τὸν μαθητὴν ἐπὶ τὸ θεὸν τὸν ἀγαθὸν καὶ πρῶτον καὶ μόνον ζωῆς αἰωνίου ταμίαν, ἣν ὁ υἱὸς δίδωσιν ἡμῖν παρʼ ἐκείνου λαβών.

English · Claude translation

Being called good, he takes his cue from this very first word and begins his teaching from it, turning the disciple to God, the good, the first, and the only dispenser of eternal life, which the Son gives us, having received it from him.

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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)
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Topics
Christology, Trinity

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 6.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/6/4/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 6.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/6/4/).

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