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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 23.3

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

Summary: Christ promises rest and the unimaginable good things God has prepared for those who love him.

Greek text · Stählin 3:175

ἀνάξω γάρ σε εἰς ἀνάπαυσιν καὶ ἀπόλαυσιν ἀρρήτων καὶ ἀλέκτων ἀγαθῶν, »ἃ μήτε ὀφθαλμὸς εἶδε μήτε οὖς ἤκουσε μήτε ἐπὶ καρδίαν ἀνθρώπων ἀνέβη. εἰς ἃ ἐπιθυμοῦσιν ἄγγελοι παρακύψαι καὶ ἰδεῖν ἅπερ ἡτοίμασεν ὁ θεὸς τοῖς ἁγίοις ἀγαθὰ καὶ τοῖς φιλοῦσιν αὐτὸν τέκνοις.«

English · Claude translation

For I will lead you up to rest and to the enjoyment of unspeakable and indescribable good things, “which eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor have they entered into the heart of men, into which angels long to look and see what good things God has prepared for the saints and for the children who love him.”

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Source
Stählin 3:175 · 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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Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation combines 1 Cor 2:9 with 1 Pet 1:12.

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 23.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/23/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 23.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/23/3/).

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