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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 42.19

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

Summary: The heavenly Father will grant true cleansing and unchanging life to those who seek salvation earnestly.

Greek text · Stählin 3:191

τῷ δὲ ἐπιβλέποντι τὴν σωτηρίαν καὶ ποθοῦντι καὶ μετὰ ἀναιδείας καὶ βίας αἰτοῦντι παρέξει τὴν ἀληθινὴν κάθαρσιν καὶ τὴν ἄτρεπτον ζωὴν ὁ πατὴρ ὁ ἀγαθὸς ὁ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς.

English · Claude translation

But to the one who looks to salvation, longs for it, and asks for it with persistence and force, the good Father who is in heaven will grant the true cleansing and the unchanging life.

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Source
Stählin 3:191 · 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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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 42.19 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/42/19/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 42.19 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/42/19/).

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