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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 31.9

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

Summary: Better still is the Lord's “Give to everyone who asks”; and beyond even this, to seek out the worthy without waiting to be asked,

Greek text · Stählin 3:181

κρείττων δʼ ἐστὶ τούτου ὁ τοῦ κυρίου λελεγμένος ἐν ἄλλῳ χωρίῳ· »παντὶ τῷ αἰτοῦντί σε δίδου·« θεοῦ γὰρ ὄντως ἡ τοιαύτη φιλοδωρία. οὑτοσὶ δὲ ὁ λόγος ὑπὲρ ἅπασάν ἐστι θεότητα, μηδὲ αἰτεῖσθαι περιμένειν, ἀλλʼ αὐτὸν ἀναζητεῖν, ὅστις ἄξιος εὖ παθεῖν,

English · Claude translation

But better than this is the saying of the Lord in another place: “Give to everyone who asks you”; for such generosity truly belongs to God. But this saying goes beyond all divinity: not even to wait to be asked, but oneself to search out whoever is worthy to be benefited,

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Source
Stählin 3:181 · 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. 31.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/31/9/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 31.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/31/9/).

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