Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 11.4

Greek text · Stählin 3:167

αἰώνιον) οὔτε καινὸν τὸ ἀπείπασθαι πλοῦτον καὶ χαρίσασθαι πτωχοῖς ἢ πατρίσιν, ὃ πολλοὶ πρὸ τῆς τοῦ σωτῆρος καθόδου πεποιήκασιν, οἳ μὲν τῆς εἰς λόγους σχολῆς καὶ νεκρᾶς σοφίας ἕνεκεν. οἳ δὲ φήμης κενῆς καὶ κενοδοξίας, Ἀναξαγόραι καὶ Δημόκριτοι καὶ Κράτητες.

English · Claude translation

simply because they are utterly without resources and means of life and short of the smallest necessities.) Nor is it new to renounce wealth and give it to the poor or to one's country, which many did before the Savior's coming, some for the sake of leisure for letters and dead wisdom, others for empty fame and vainglory: men like Anaxagoras, Democritus, and Crates.

About this passage

Source

Stählin 3:167 · 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.

Compare

Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 2 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)

Topics

Ethics

Notes

Translation notes

The Greek text of this section's first words belongs to the sentence begun in 11.3; the order of clauses is adjusted in English. Anaxagoras, Democritus, and Crates were Greek philosophers remembered for giving up their property.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent on οἳ): οἵ δὲ φήμης κενῆς → οἳ δὲ φήμης κενῆς.

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 11.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/11/4/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 11.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/11/4/).