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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 28.4

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

Summary: The neighbor is the one who shows mercy; Christ says, “Go and do likewise,” for love produces good works.

Greek text · Stählin 3:178–179

τοῦ δὲ ἀποκριναμένου ὅτι »ὁ τὸν ἔλεον πρὸς αὐτὸν ἐπιδειξάμενος· καὶ σὺ τοίνυν πορευθεὶς οὕτω ποίει«, ὡς τῆς ἀγάπης βλαστανούσης εὐποιίαν.

English · Claude translation

And when he answered, “The one who showed mercy to him,” he said, “You too, then, go and do likewise,” since love bears the fruit of good deeds.

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Source
Stählin 3:178–179 · 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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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 28.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/28/4/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 28.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/28/4/).

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