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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 16.1

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

Summary: The passions are the deadly wealth; the soul stripped of them can hear Christ's call to follow him.

Greek text · Stählin 3:169

δὲ ἦν τὰ τῆς ψυχῆς ἀρρωστήματα καὶ πάθη. ὁ τούτων πλοῦτος παρὼν μὲν ἅπασι θανατηφόρος, ἀπολόμενος δὲ σωτήριος· οὗ δεῖ καθαρεύουσαν. τουτέστι πτωχεύουσαν καὶ γυμνήν. τὴν ψυχὴν παρασχόμενον οὕτως ἤδη τοῦ σωτῆρος ἀκοῦσαι λέγοντος· »δεῦρο ἀκολούθει μοι.«

English · Claude translation

were the infirmities and passions of the soul. The wealth of these, when present, brings death to all; when destroyed, it brings salvation. Of this one must render the soul pure, that is, poor and naked, and so then hear the Savior saying, “Come, follow me.”

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Stählin 3:169 · 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. 16.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/16/1/).

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