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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 38.3

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

Summary: Faith and hope end when God is seen and promises are fulfilled, but love grows to fullness.

Greek text · Stählin 3:184–185

καὶ δικαίως· πίστις μὲν γὰρ ἀπέρχεται, ὅταν αὐτοψίᾳ πεισθῶμεν ἰδόντες θεόν, καὶ ἐλπὶς ἀφανίζεται τῶν ἐλπισθέντων ἀποδοθέντων, ἀγάπη δὲ εἰς πλήρωμα συνέρχεται καὶ μᾶλλον αὔξεται τῶν τελείων παραδοθέντων.

English · Claude translation

And rightly: for faith passes away when we are convinced by seeing God with our own eyes, and hope vanishes when what was hoped for has been granted; but love comes together into fullness and grows the more when perfect things have been given.

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Source
Stählin 3:184–185 · 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)
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Topics
Eschatology, Ethics

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 38.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/38/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 38.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/38/3/).

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