Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 41.6

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

Summary: His intercession is pure if he is honored as God's messenger and grieves only for the rich man's sake; this is sincere repentance.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:187

δεήσεται δὲ καθαρῶς ὑπὸ σοῦ προτιμώμενος ὡς ἄγγελος τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ μηδὲν ὑπὸ σοῦ λυπούμενος, ἀλλʼ ὑπὲρ σοῦ. τοῦτό ἐστι μετάνοια ἀνυπόκριτος.

English · Claude translation

And he will plead purely if he is honored by you above others as an angel of God, and is grieved not at all by you, but for you. This is repentance without hypocrisy.

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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, Ethics

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 41.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/41/6/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 41.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/41/6/).

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