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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 29.3

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

Summary: Christ alone heals these wounds, cutting out the passions at the root, where the law dealt only with their fruits.

Greek text · Stählin 3:179

τούτων δὲ τῶν τραυμάτων μόνος ἰατρὸς Ἰησοῦς, ἐκκόπτων ἄρδην τὰ πάθη πρόρριζα, οὐχ ὥσπερ ὁ νόμος ψιλὰ τὰ ἀποτελέσματα, τοὺς καρποὺς τῶν πονηρῶν φυτῶν, ἀλλὰ τὴν ἀξίνην τὴν ἑαυτοῦ πρὸς τὰς ῥίζας τῆς κακίας προσαγαγών.

English · Claude translation

Of these wounds Jesus is the only physician, who cuts the passions out utterly, root and all; not like the law, which cuts off only the effects, the fruits of evil plants, but applying his own axe to the roots of vice.

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Source
Stählin 3:179 · 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)
Scripture
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Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • The axe at the roots is Matt 3:10 (Luke 3:9).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 29.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/29/3/).

Plain text
Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 29.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/29/3/).

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