Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 5.3

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

Summary: Even the sayings Christ explained to his disciples need careful attention, because of their depth.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:163

καὶ γὰρ τὰ ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ τοῦ κυρίου δοκοῦντα ἡπλῶσθαι πρὸς τοὺς μαθητὰς τῶν ᾐνιγμένως ὑπειρημένων οὐδὲν ἥττονος [ἔτι καὶ νῦν]. ἀλλὰ πλείονος ἔτι καὶ νῦν τῆς ἐπιστάσεως εὑρίσκεται δεόμενα διὰ τὴν ὑπερβάλλουσαν τῆς φρονήσεως ἐν αὐτοῖς ὑπερβολήν.

English · Claude translation

For even the things the Lord himself seems to have made plain to the disciples, among what he had said in riddles, are found to need no less, but even more attention still, because of the surpassing excess of wisdom in them.

About this passage

Source: Stählin 3:163 · 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: Scripture and canon

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Translation notes

The words in square brackets in the Greek are the editor's deletions.

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 5.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/5/3/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 5.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/5/3/).

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