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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 10.4

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

Summary: The man who had kept the whole law could not add the one thing Christ offered, and went away vexed.

Greek text · Stählin 3:166

ἀμέλει ὁ πάντα τὰ τοῦ νόμου πληρώσας »ἐκ νεότητος« καὶ τὰ ὑπέρογκα φρυαξάμενος τὸ ἓν τοῦτο προσθεῖναι τοῖς ὅλοις οὐ δεδύνηται. τὸ τοῦ σωτῆρος ἐξαίρετον, ἵνα λάβῃ ζωὴν αἰώνιον, ἣν ποθεῖ· ἀλλὰ δυσχεράνας ἀπῆλθεν, ἀχθεσθεὶς τῷ παραγγέλματι τῆς ζωῆς.

English · Claude translation

Indeed, the one who had fulfilled all the things of the law “from his youth” and boasted of extraordinary things was unable to add this one thing to them all, the Savior's special gift, so as to receive the eternal life he longed for. Instead he went away displeased, vexed at the commandment of the life

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Source
Stählin 3:166 · 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
Text
As printed in Stählin, GCS 17. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
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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Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 2 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)
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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 10.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/10/4/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 10.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/10/4/).

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