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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 37.1

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

Summary: Contemplate the mysteries of love and you will see the Father's bosom, revealed by the only-begotten God; God is love and became visible to us out of love.

Greek text · Stählin 3:183–184

Τί γὰρ ἔτι δεῖ; θεῶ τὰ τῆς ἀγάπης μυστήρια, καὶ τότε ἐποπτεύσεις τὸν κόλπον τοῦ πατρός, ὃν ὁ μονογενὴς θεὸς μόνος ἐξηγήσατο. ἔστι δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ θεὸς ἀγάπη καὶ διʼ ἀγάπην ἡμῖν ἐθεάθη.

English · Claude translation

For what more is needed? Behold the mysteries of love, and then you will gaze into the bosom of the Father, whom the only-begotten God alone has declared. God himself is love, and for love's sake he became visible to us.

About this passage

Source
Stählin 3:183–184 · 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
Topics
Christology, Trinity

Notes

Translation notes

  • The allusions are John 1:18 (with the reading “only-begotten God”) and 1 John 4:8, 16.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (breathing and accent missing): ἐστι δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς → ἔστι δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς.

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 37.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/37/1/).

Plain text
Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 37.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/37/1/).

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