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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 13.5

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

Summary: Christ stayed with rich tax collectors like Zacchaeus and Levi without telling them to give up their money, but only to use it justly.

Greek text · Stählin 3:168

ἀλλὰ μὴν αὐτός τε ἐπιξενοῦται Ζακχαίῳ καὶ Λευεὶ καὶ Ματθαίῳ τοῖς πλουσίοις καὶ τελώναις, καὶ τὰ μὲν χρήματα αὐτοὺς οὐ κελεύει μεθεῖναι, τὴν δὲ δικαίαν χρῆσιν ἐπιθεὶς καὶ τὴν ἄδικον ἀφελὼν καταγγέλλει·

English · Claude translation

But in fact he himself is a guest of Zacchaeus and of Levi and Matthew, rich men and tax collectors, and he does not command them to give up their money; rather, imposing its just use and removing the unjust, he announces:

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Source
Stählin 3:168 · 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

  • Clement treats Levi and Matthew as two people here.

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 13.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/13/5/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 13.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/13/5/).

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