Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 37.2

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

Summary: In God, the ineffable is Father, and his compassion toward us is motherly: in loving, the Father became like a mother.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:184

καὶ τὸ μὲν ἄρρητον αὐτοῦ πατήρ. τὸ δὲ εἰς ἡμᾶς συμπαθὲς γέγονε μήτηρ. ἀγαπήσας ὁ πατὴρ ἐθηλύνθη.

English · Claude translation

What is ineffable in him is Father; what has compassion for us has become Mother. The Father, by loving, became feminine.

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Source

Stählin 3:184 · 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.

Extrabiblical texts

Clement of Alexandria, Paed. 1.6.43 (The Instructor) · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Trinity

Notes

Translation notes

This bold image of God's motherly love is Clement's; compare Paed. 1.6.43, where the Father's breasts nourish the believer.

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 37.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/37/2/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 37.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/37/2/).

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