Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 40.2

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

Summary: God will judge each person as he finds him at the end.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:186

»ἐφʼ οἷς γὰρ ἂν εὕρω ὑμᾶς«, φησίν, »ἐπὶ τούτοις καὶ κρινῶ·«

English · Claude translation

“For in whatever I find you,” he says, “in that I will also judge you.”

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Source

Stählin 3:186 · 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)

Extrabiblical texts

Justin, Dial. 47.5 (Dialogue with Trypho) · echo, high confidence

Topics

Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

This saying is not in the canonical Gospels; it is also quoted by Justin (Dial. 47.5).

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 40.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/40/2/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 40.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/40/2/).

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