Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 26.4

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

Summary: If birth into wealth excluded one from life, God would be unjust.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:177

εἰ γὰρ διὰ τὴν ἀκούσιον ἐν πλούτῳ γένεσιν ἀπελήλαται ζωῆς, ἀδικεῖται μᾶλλον ὑπὸ τοῦ γειναμένου θεοῦ, προσκαίρου μὲν ἡδυπαθείας κατηξιωμένος, ἀιδίου δὲ ζωῆς ἀπεστερημένος,

English · Claude translation

For if, because of an involuntary birth in wealth, he were driven from life, he would rather be wronged by God who gave him birth, being granted temporary luxury but deprived of eternal life.

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Source: Stählin 3:177 · 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)
Topics: Ethics

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 26.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/26/4/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 26.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/26/4/).

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