Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 4.1

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

Summary: Clement prays that the Savior will help him give the brethren a true and saving account of hope.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:162

Δοίη τοίνυν ἡμῖν ὁ σωτὴρ ἐντεῦθεν ἀρξαμένοις τοῦ λόγου τἀληθῆ καὶ τὰ πρέποντα καὶ τὰ σωτήρια συμβαλέσθαι τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς πρός τε τὴν ἐλπίδα πρῶτον αὐτὴν καὶ δεύτερον πρὸς τὴν τῆς ἐλπίδος προσαγωγήν.

English · Claude translation

May the Savior grant us, then, beginning our discourse from here, to contribute to the brethren what is true, fitting, and saving, first for hope itself, and second for access to what is hoped for.

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Source: Stählin 3:162 · 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

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 4.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/4/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 4.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/4/1/).

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