Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 29.6

Greek text · Stählin 3:179

»οὐ γὰρ πᾶς ὁ λέγων μοι ›κύριε κύριε‹ εἰσελεύσεται εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν, ἀλλʼ ὁ ποιῶν τὸ θέλημα τοῦ πατρός μου.« καί· »τί με λέγετε ›κύριε κύριε‹ καὶ οὐ ποιεῖτε ἃ λέγω;« καί· »ὑμεῖς μακάριοι οἱ ὁρῶντες καὶ ἀκούοντες ἃ μήτε δίκαιοι μήτε προφῆται«, ἐὰν ποιῆτε ἃ λέγω.

English · Claude translation

“For not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father.” And: “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?” And: “Blessed are you who see and hear what neither the righteous nor the prophets saw,” if you do what I say.

About this passage

Source

Stählin 3:179 · 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

Matt 7:21 · quotation, high confidence
Luke 6:46 · quotation, high confidence
Matt 13:16 · quotation, high confidence
Matt 13:17 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Ethics

Notes

Translation notes

The quotations are Matt 7:21, Luke 6:46, and a free combination of Matt 13:16–17 (Luke 10:23–24).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (word repeated in the digital text): εἰς τὴν τὴν βασιλείαν → εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν.

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 29.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/29/6/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 29.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/29/6/).