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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 21.5

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

Summary: Peter says they have left everything; if he meant his few possessions, that would be little to boast of.

Greek text · Stählin 3:173–174

καὶ τί φησιν; »ἴδε ἡμεῖς ἀφήκαμεν πάντα καὶ ἠκολουθήσαμέν σοι.« τὰ δὲ »πάντα« εἰ μὲν τὰ κτήματα τὰ ἑαυτοῦ λέγει. τέσσαρας ὀβολοὺς ἴσως.

English · Claude translation

And what does he say? “See, we have left everything and followed you.” If by “everything” he means his own possessions, he boasts of leaving perhaps four obols,

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Source
Stählin 3:173–174 · 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 quotation is Mark 10:28. The sentence continues in the next section.

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 21.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/21/5/).

Plain text
Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 21.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/21/5/).

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