Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 33.2

Greek text · Stählin 3:181–182

καὶ τίς οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ φίλος τοῦ θεοῦ; σὺ μὲν μὴ κρῖνε, τίς ἄξιος καὶ τίς ἀνάξιος· ἐνδέχεται γάρ σε διαμαρτεῖν περὶ τὴν δόξαν· ὡς ἐν ἀμφιβόλῳ δὲ τῆς ἀγνοίας ἄμεινον καὶ τοὺς ἀναξίους εὖ ποιεῖν διὰ τοὺς ἀξίους ἢ φυλασσόμενον τοὺς ἧσσον ἀγαθοὺς μηδὲ τοῖς σπουδαίοις περιπεσεῖν.

English · Claude translation

And who is this friend of God? Do not you judge who is worthy and who is unworthy; for you may be quite mistaken in your opinion. In the uncertainty of ignorance it is better to do good even to the unworthy for the sake of the worthy, than, guarding against the less good, not to meet the earnest either.

About this passage

Source

Stählin 3:181–182 · 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)

Topics

Ethics

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (stray raised point in the digital text; word repeated in the digital text): σὺ μὲν μὲν μὴ κρῖνε → σὺ μὲν μὴ κρῖνε; ἢ φυλασσόμενον· τοὺς → ἢ φυλασσόμενον τοὺς.

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 33.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/33/2/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 33.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/33/2/).