Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 29.4

Greek text · Stählin 3:179

οὗτος ὁ τὸν οἶνον, τὸ αἷμα τῆς ἀμπέλου τῆς Δαβίδ, ἐκχέας ἡμῶν ἐπὶ τὰς τετρωμένας ψυχάς, οὗτος ὁ τὸ ἔλαιον, τὸν ἐκ σπλάγχνων πατρὸς ἔλεον, προσενεγκὼν καὶ ἐπιδαψιλευόμενος, οὗτος ὁ τοὺς τῆς ὑγείας καὶ σωτηρίας δεσμοὺς ἀλύτους ἐπιδείξας, ἀγάπην, πίστιν, ἐλπίδα, οὗτος ὁ διακονεῖν ἀγγέλους καὶ ἀρχὰς καὶ ἐξουσίας ἡμῖν ἐπιτάξας ἐπὶ μεγάλῳ μισθῷ, διότι καὶ αὐτοὶ ἐλευθερωθήσονται ἀπὸ τῆς ματαιότητος τοῦ κόσμου παρὰ τὴν ἀποκάλυψιν τῆς δόξης τῶν υἱῶν τοῦ θεοῦ.

English · Claude translation

He it is who poured out on our wounded souls the wine, the blood of the vine of David; he it is who brought and lavishly supplied the oil, the mercy from the heart of the Father; he it is who showed the unbreakable bandages of health and salvation: love, faith, hope; he it is who ordered angels, principalities, and powers to serve us, for a great reward, because they too will be set free from the vanity of the world at the revelation of the glory of the sons of God.

About this passage

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

Luke 10:34 · allusion, high confidence
1 Cor 13:13 · echo, medium confidence
Heb 1:14 · allusion, high confidence
Rom 8:19 · allusion, high confidence
Rom 8:20 · allusion, medium confidence
Rom 8:21 · allusion, high confidence

Extrabiblical texts

Did. 9.2 (Didache) · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Translation notes

“The vine of David” echoes Did. 9.2. Clement plays on ἔλαιον (“oil”) and ἔλεος (“mercy”). The allusions are Heb 1:14 and Rom 8:19–21.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (stray period in the digital text): ὁ τὸν οἶνον. τὸ αἷμα → ὁ τὸν οἶνον, τὸ αἷμα.

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 29.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/29/4/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 29.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/29/4/).