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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 19.5

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

Summary: In place of the passions one must bring in the divine wealth of dispositions that follow God's commandments.

Greek text · Stählin 3:172

ἐξαργυρίσας τὴν φανερὰν οὐσίαν; οὐδαμῶς· ἀλλὰ ἀντὶ τῶν πρότερον ἐνυπαρχόντων τῇ ψυχῇ, ἣν σῶσαι ποθεῖς, ἀντεισαγόμενος ἕτερον πλοῦτον θεοποιὸν καὶ ζωῆς χορηγὸν αἰωνίου, τὰς κατὰ τὴν ἐντολὴν τοῦ θεοῦ διαθέσεις. ἀνθʼ ὧν σοι περιέσται μισθὸς καὶ τιμή.

English · Claude translation

turning your visible property into cash? Not at all; but instead of what was formerly in your soul, which you long to save, bring in another wealth, which makes you divine and supplies eternal life: the dispositions that accord with God's commandment. In return for these you will have reward and honor,

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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)
Extrabiblical texts
  • Clement of Alexandria, Protr. 11.114 (Exhortation to the Greeks) · echo, low confidence
Topics
Ethics

Notes

Translation notes

  • “Makes you divine” renders θεοποιόν; compare Protr. 11.114.

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 19.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/19/5/).

Plain text
Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 19.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/19/5/).

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