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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 7.1

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

Summary: The first lesson for life is to know the one, eternal, good God.

Greek text · Stählin 3:164

Οὐκοῦν τὸ μέγιστον καὶ κορυφαιότατον τῶν πρὸς τὴν ζωὴν μαθημάτων ἀπὸ τῆς ἀρχῆς εὐθὺς ἐγκαταθέσθαι τῇ ψυχῇ δεῖ, γνῶναι τὸν θεὸν τὸν αἰώνιον καὶ δοτῆρα αἰωνίων καὶ πρῶτον καὶ ὑπέρτατον καὶ ἕνα καὶ ἀγαθὸν θεόν.

English · Claude translation

Therefore the greatest and highest of the lessons for life must be laid up in the soul from the very beginning: to know the eternal God, giver of eternal things, first, supreme, one, and good.

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Source
Stählin 3:164 · 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)
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  • Digital text corrected (word repeated in the digital text): τῇ ψυχῇ ψυχῇ δεῖ → τῇ ψυχῇ δεῖ.

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 7.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/7/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 7.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/7/1/).

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