Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 13.1

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

Summary: It is better to have enough and to help others; if no one had anything, no one could share.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:167–168

Καὶ πόσῳ χρησιμώτερον τὸ ἐναντίον, ἱκανὰ κεκτημένον αὐτόν τε περὶ τὴν κτῆσιν μὴ κακοπαθεῖν καὶ οἷς καθῆκεν ἐπικουρεῖν; τίς γὰρ ἂν κοινωνία καταλείποιτο παρὰ ἀνθρώποις, εἰ μηδεὶς ἔχοι μηδέν;

English · Claude translation

And how much more useful is the opposite: that one who possesses enough should not himself suffer want in the matter of possessions, and should help those whom it is fitting to help? For what sharing would be left among people if no one had anything?

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Source: Stählin 3:167–168 · 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

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 13.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/13/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 13.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/13/1/).

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