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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 9.2

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

Summary: The holy law was a preliminary training; Christ is the fulfillment of the law and makes believers sons, brothers, and heirs.

Greek text · Stählin 3:165

ἡ γὰρ »ἐντολὴ ἁγία«) ἄχρι παιδαγωγίας τινὸς μετὰ φόβου καὶ προπαιδείας ἐπὶ τὴν τοῦ Ἰησοῦ νομοθεσίαν τὴν ἄκραν καὶ χάριν προχωροῦντα. πλήρωμα δὲ »νόμου Χριστὸς εἰς δικαιοσύνην παντὶ τῷ πιστεύοντι«, οὐχὶ δὲ δούλους ποιῶν ὡς δοῦλος, ἀλλὰ καὶ υἱοὺς καὶ ἀδελφοὺς καὶ συγκληρονόμους τοὺς ἐπιτελοῦντας τὸ θέλημα τοῦ πατρός.

English · Claude translation

for “the commandment is holy”), as far as a kind of instruction with fear and preliminary training, advancing toward the supreme legislation and grace of Jesus. But “Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes,” not making slaves as a slave does, but sons and brothers and joint heirs, those who do the will of the Father.

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Source
Stählin 3:165 · 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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Topics
Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotations are Rom 7:12 and Rom 10:4; the allusions are Gal 3:24 (the law as tutor), Rom 8:15–17, and Matt 12:50.

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 9.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/9/2/).

Plain text
Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 9.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/9/2/).

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