Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 19.4

Summary: “Selling” them does not mean exchanging one kind of wealth for another.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:172

καὶ πῶς αὐτῶν ἀποστῇς; πωλήσας. τί οὖν; χρήματα ἀντὶ κτημάτων λάβῃς; ἀντίδοσιν πλούτου πρὸς πλοῦτον ποιησάμενος.

And how will you withdraw from them? By selling them. What then? Will you take money instead of possessions, making an exchange of wealth for wealth,

Source: Stählin 3:172 · 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

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 19.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/19/4/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 19.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/19/4/).