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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 30.2

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

Summary: Christ blesses those who fed, gave drink to, and welcomed him in the needy.

Greek text · Stählin 3:179

»δεῦτε, οἱ εὐλογημένοι τοῦ πατρός μου, κληρονομήσατε τὴν ἡτοιμασμένην ὑμῖν βασιλείαν ἀπὸ καταβολῆς κόσμου. ἐπείνασα γὰρ καὶ ἐδώκατέ μοι φαγεῖν, καὶ ἐδίψησα καὶ ἐδώκατέ μοι πιεῖν. καὶ ξένος ἤμην καὶ συνηγάγετέ με.

English · Claude translation

“Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me to eat, and I was thirsty and you gave me to drink, and I was a stranger and you took me in;

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Source
Stählin 3:179 · 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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Topics
Ethics, Eschatology

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 30.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/30/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 30.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/30/2/).

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