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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 26.8

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

Summary: The camel has a deeper mystical meaning, which Clement reserves for another work.

Greek text · Stählin 3:177

σημαινέτω μὲν οὖν τι καὶ ὑψηλότερον ἡ κάμηλος διὰ στενῆς ὁδοῦ καὶ τεθλιμμένης φθάνουσα τὸν πλούσιον, ὅπερ ἐν τῇ περὶ ἀρχῶν καὶ θεολογίας ἐξηγήσει μυστήριον τοῦ σωτῆρος ὑπάρχει μαθεῖν·

English · Claude translation

Let the camel, passing through a narrow and hard way before the rich man, signify something higher too, which is a mystery of the Savior to be learned in the exposition on first principles and theology.

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Source
Stählin 3:177 · 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
Topics
Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

  • “The narrow and hard way” is Matt 7:14. Clement refers to a planned work on first principles and theology, which does not survive.

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 26.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/26/8/).

Plain text
Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 26.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/26/8/).

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