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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 34.3

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

Summary: The poor believers helped by the rich become their bodyguards, whose prayers, laying on of hands, and exorcisms protect them.

Greek text · Stählin 3:182–183

ἄνδρας ἀγάπῃ κεκοσμημένους. τοιούτους κτῆσαι τῷ σῷ πλούτῳ καὶ τῷ σώματι καὶ τῇ ψυχῇ δορυφόρους, ὧν στρατηγεῖ θεός. διʼ οὓς καὶ ναῦς βαπτιζομένη κουφίζεται, μόναις ἁγίων εὐχαῖς κυβερνωμένη. καὶ νόσος ἀκμάζουσα δαμάζεται, χειρῶν ἐπιβολαῖς διωκομένη. καὶ προσβολὴ λῃστῶν ἀφοπλίζεται, εὐχαῖς εὐσεβέσι σκυλευομένη, καὶ δαιμόνων βία θραύεται προστάγμασι συντόνοις ἐλεγχομένη.

English · Claude translation

men adorned with love. Acquire such bodyguards with your wealth, for body and soul, whose general is God. Through them a sinking ship is lightened, steered by the prayers of the saints alone; raging disease is subdued, put to flight by the laying on of hands; the attack of robbers is disarmed, despoiled by godly prayers; and the violence of demons is shattered, rebuked by earnest commands.

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Source
Stählin 3:182–183 · 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
Prayer, Ethics

Notes

Translation notes

  • The laying on of hands for healing and the commanding of demons are practices of the church in Clement's time.

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 34.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/34/3/).

Plain text
Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 34.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/34/3/).

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