Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 18.5

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

Summary: The poor can be drunk with desires, and the rich can be sober and pure.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:171

οὕτως καὶ ἄπορός τις ὢν καὶ ἄβιος εὑρεθείη ποτʼ ἂν μεθύων ταῖς ἐπιθυμίαις. καὶ χρήμασι πλούσιος νήφων καὶ πτωχεύων ἡδονῶν. πεπεισμένος. συνετός, καθαρός, κεκολασμένος.

English · Claude translation

So too one who is without resources and livelihood might sometimes be found drunk with desires, and one rich in money sober, poor in pleasures, obedient, prudent, pure, disciplined.

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Source: Stählin 3:171 · 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

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 18.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/18/5/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 18.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/18/5/).

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