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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 21.4

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

Summary: Peter, first of the disciples, for whom Christ paid the tax, quickly grasped the saying.

Greek text · Stählin 3:173

ὁ ἐκλεκτός. ὁ ἐξαίρετος, ὁ πρῶτος τῶν μαθητῶν. ὑπὲρ οὗ μόνου καὶ ἑαυτοῦ τὸν φόρον ὁ σωτὴρ ἐκτελεῖ, ταχέως ἥρπασε καὶ συνέβαλε τὸν λόγον.

English · Claude translation

the chosen, the eminent, the first of the disciples, for whom alone, together with himself, the Savior pays the tax, quickly seized and understood the saying.

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Source
Stählin 3:173 · 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
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.
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Notes

Translation notes

  • The allusion is Matt 17:24–27.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (stray period in the digital text): ἑαυτοῦ τὸν. φόρον → ἑαυτοῦ τὸν φόρον.

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 21.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/21/4/).

Plain text
Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 21.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/21/4/).

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