Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 15.6

Summary: Christ allows external goods and commands us to put away what misuses them.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:169

Οὕτως οὖν ὁ κύριος καὶ τὴν τῶν ἐκτὸς χρείαν εἰσάγει. κελεύων ἀποθέσθαι οὐ τὰ βιωτικά, ἀλλὰ τὰ τούτοις κακῶς χρώμενα· ταῦτα

So the Lord also admits the use of external things, commanding us to put away not the means of living but the things that use them badly; and these

Source: Stählin 3:169 · 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. 15.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/15/6/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 15.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/15/6/).