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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 13.4

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

Summary: No one could feed the hungry or clothe the naked, as Christ commands on pain of judgment, if he had nothing himself.

Greek text · Stählin 3:168

πῶς ἄν τις πεινῶντα τρέφοι καὶ διψῶντα ποτίζοι καὶ γυμνὸν σκεπάζοι καὶ ἄστεγον συνάγοι, ἃ τοῖς μὴ ποιήσασιν ἀπειλεῖ πῦρ καὶ σκότος τὸ ἐξώτερον, εἰ πάντων αὐτὸς ἕκαστος φθάνοι τούτων ὑστερῶν;

English · Claude translation

How could anyone feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, and take in the homeless, for failing to do which he threatens fire and the outer darkness, if each person were already lacking all these things himself?

About this passage

Source
Stählin 3:168 · 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
Topics
Ethics, Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

  • The allusions are Matt 25:35–36, 41–43, and Matt 25:30 (“outer darkness”).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 13.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/13/4/).

Plain text
Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 13.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/13/4/).

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