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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 23.4

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

Summary: Christ gives himself as bread and the daily drink of immortality, and has paid the death owed for our sins.

Greek text · Stählin 3:175

ἐγώ σου τροφεὺς ἄρτον ἐμαυτὸν διδούς, οὗ γευσάμενος οὐδεὶς ἔτι πεῖραν θανάτου λαμβάνει, καὶ πόμα καθʼ ἡμέραν ἐνδιδοὺς ἀθανασίας· ἐγὼ διδάσκαλος ὑπερουρανίων παιδευμάτων· ὑπὲρ σοῦ πρὸς τὸν θάνατον διηγωνισάμην καὶ τὸν σὸν ἐξέτισα θάνατον, ὃν ὤφειλες ἐπὶ τοῖς προημαρτημένοις καὶ τῇ

English · Claude translation

I am your nourisher, giving myself as bread, which no one who has tasted any longer experiences death; and giving daily the drink of immortality. I am the teacher of supercelestial lessons. For you I contended with death and paid your death, which you owed for your former sins and for your

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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)
Scripture
Topics
Eucharist, Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • The allusions are John 6:50–51 and 8:52. The “drink of immortality” given daily may refer to the Eucharist. The sentence continues in the next section.

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 23.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/23/4/).

Plain text
Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 23.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/23/4/).

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