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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 31.1

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

Summary: Christ calls his disciples children and little ones and forbids despising them, since their angels see the Father's face.

Greek text · Stählin 3:180

Τούτους καὶ τέκνα καὶ παιδία καὶ νήπια καὶ φίλους ὀνομάζει καὶ μικροὺς ἐνθάδε ὡς πρὸς τὸ μέλλον ἄνω μέγεθος αὐτῶν. »μὴ καταφρονήσητε« λέγων »ἑνὸς τῶν μικρῶν τούτων· τούτων γὰρ οἱ ἄγγελοι διὰ παντὸς βλέπουσι τὸ πρόσωπον τοῦ πατρός μου τοῦ ἐν οὐρανοῖς.«

English · Claude translation

These he calls children, little children, infants, and friends, and little ones here, in view of their future greatness above: “Do not despise one of these little ones; for their angels always behold the face of my Father in heaven.”

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Source
Stählin 3:180 · 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.
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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. 31.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/31/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 31.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/31/1/).

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