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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 39.3

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

Summary: There is great joy in heaven over one repentant sinner.

Greek text · Stählin 3:185

μεγάλην γάρ φησι καὶ ἀνυπέρβλητον εἶναι χαρὰν καὶ ἑορτὴν ἐν οὐρανοῖς τῷ πατρὶ καὶ τοῖς ἀγγέλοις ἑνὸς ἁμαρτωλοῦ ἐπιστρέψαντος καὶ μετανοήσαντος.

English · Claude translation

For he says that there is great and unsurpassable joy and festival in heaven for the Father and the angels when one sinner turns and repents.

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Stählin 3:185 · 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
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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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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 39.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/39/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 39.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/39/3/).

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