Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 25.2

Summary: Christ does not call only the poor and homeless; he called rich men and pairs of brothers who were of one mind with him.

Greek text · Stählin 3:175–176

οὔτε γὰρ ἀχρημάτους οὔτε ἀνεστίους οὔτε ἀναδέλφους ἐπὶ τὴν ζωὴν καλεῖ. ἐπεὶ καὶ πλουσίους κέκληκεν, ἀλλʼ ὃν τρόπον προειρήκαμεν, καὶ ἀδελφοὺς κατὰ ταὐτὸν ὥσπερ Πέτρον μετὰ Ἀνδρέου καὶ Ἰάκωβον μετὰ Ἰωάννου, τοὺς Ζεβεδαίου παῖδας, ἀλλʼ ὁμονοοῦντας ἀλλήλοις τε καὶ Χριστῷ.

English · Claude translation

For he does not call to life those without money, or without homes, or without brothers; since he has also called the rich, but in the way we have described before, and brothers in the same way, like Peter with Andrew, and James with John, the sons of Zebedee, but brothers of one mind with each other and with Christ.

About this passage

Source

Stählin 3:175–176 · 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)

Scripture

Mark 1:16 · allusion, high confidence
Mark 1:19 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Ethics

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 25.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/25/2/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 25.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/25/2/).