Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 22.6

Summary: One saying removes hatred; the other removes excessive deference to family,

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Greek text · Stählin 3:174

ἐν ἐκείνῳ μὲν γὰρ τῷ λόγῳ μῖσος ἐκκόπτει καὶ κακοποιίαν, ἐν τούτῳ δὲ τὴν πρὸς τὰ σύντροφα δυσωπίαν.

In the one saying he cuts out hatred and doing harm; in the other, false shame toward those we grew up with,

Source: Stählin 3:174 · 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)
Topics: Ethics

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 22.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/22/6/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 22.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/22/6/).