Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 19.2

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

Summary: There is a genuine poverty, of spirit, and a counterfeit one, of worldly goods.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:171–172

πάλιν αὖ κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον καὶ γνήσιος πτωχὸς καὶ νόθος ἄλλος πτωχὸς καὶ ψευδώνυμος. ὃ μὲν κατὰ πνεῦμα πτωχός. τὸ ἴδιον, ὃ δὲ κατὰ κόσμον. τὸ ἀλλότριον.

English · Claude translation

Again, in the same way, there is a genuine poor man and another, counterfeit and falsely named: the one poor in spirit, which is what matters, the other poor in the world's goods, which is foreign to him.

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Source: Stählin 3:171–172 · 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

“Which is what matters” and “which is foreign” render τὸ ἴδιον and τὸ ἀλλότριον: what belongs to a person and what is external to him.

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 19.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/19/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 19.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/19/2/).

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