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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 38.1

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

Summary: Learn Paul's more excellent way: love, which does not seek its own but spends itself on the brother.

Greek text · Stählin 3:184

Σὺ δὲ μάθε τὴν »καθʼ ὑπερβολὴν ὁδόν«, ἣν δείκνυσι Παῦλος ἐπὶ σωτηρίαν· »ἡ ἀγάπη τὰ ἑαυτῆς οὐ ζητεῖ«, ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ τὸν ἀδελφὸν ἐκκέχυται· περὶ τοῦτον ἐπτόηται, περὶ τοῦτον σωφρόνως μαίνεται.

English · Claude translation

But you, learn the “still more excellent way” that Paul shows to salvation: “Love does not seek its own,” but is poured out on the brother; it is excited about him; about him it is sensibly mad.

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Source
Stählin 3:184 · 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.
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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. 38.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/38/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 38.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/38/1/).

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