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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 13.3

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

Summary: The Lord commands us to make friends with wealth and store up treasure in heaven.

Greek text · Stählin 3:168

»ποιήσατε ἑαυτοῖς φίλους ἐκ τοῦ μαμωνᾶ τῆς ἀδικίας, ἵνʼ ὅταν ἐκλίπῃ, δέξωνται ὑμᾶς εἰς τὰς αἰωνίους σκηνάς.« »κτήσασθε θησαυροὺς ἐν οὐρανῷ, ὅπου μήτε σὴς μήτε βρῶσις ἀφανίζει μήτε κλέπται διορύσσουσι.«

English · Claude translation

“Make friends for yourselves by means of the mammon of unrighteousness, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal dwellings.” “Store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, nor thieves break in.”

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Source
Stählin 3:168 · 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)
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Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotations are Luke 16:9 and Matt 6:20.

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 13.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/13/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 13.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/13/3/).

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