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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 25.8

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

Summary: Visible things are temporary; eternal life belongs to the age to come.

Greek text · Stählin 3:176

»τὰ γὰρ βλεπόμενα πρόσκαιρα, τὰ δὲ μὴ βλεπόμενα αἰώνια·« καὶ ἐν μὲν τῷ παρόντι χρόνῳ ὠκύμορα καὶ ἀβέβαια. »ἐν δὲ τῷ ἐρχομένῳ ζωή[ν] ἐστιν αἰώνιος.«

English · Claude translation

“For the things that are seen are temporary, but the things that are not seen are eternal”; and in the present time they are short-lived and unstable, but “in the age to come there is eternal life.”

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Source
Stählin 3:176 · 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
Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotations are 2 Cor 4:18 and Mark 10:30. The bracketed letter in the Greek is the editor's deletion.

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 25.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/25/8/).

Plain text
Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 25.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/25/8/).

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