Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 26.5

Summary: If wealth caused death, why would God have made it grow from the earth?

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Greek text · Stählin 3:177

τί δʼ ὅλως πλοῦτον ἐχρῆν ἐκ γῆς ἀνατεῖλαί ποτε, εἰ χορηγὸς καὶ πρόξενός ἐστι θανάτου;

And why should wealth ever have sprung up from the earth at all, if it is the supplier and agent of death?

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)
Topics: Ethics

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 26.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/26/5/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 26.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/26/5/).