Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 41.5

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

Summary: The guide should intercede for him through many nights of prayer, for the Father cannot resist his children's pleas.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:187

οὗτος ὑπὲρ σοῦ πολλὰς νύκτας ἀγρυπνησάτω, πρεσβεύων ὑπὲρ σοῦ πρὸς θεὸν καὶ λιτανείαις συνήθεσι μαγεύων τὸν πατέρα· οὐ γὰρ ἀντέχει τοῖς τέκνοις αὐτοῦ τὰ σπλάγχνα δεομένοις.

English · Claude translation

Let him spend many sleepless nights for you, interceding for you with God and charming the Father with familiar litanies; for he does not hold out his heart against his children when they plead.

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Source: Stählin 3:187 · 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. 41.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/41/5/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 41.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/41/5/).

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