Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 4.10

Greek text · Stählin 3:163

›ἴδε ἡμεῖς ἀφήκαμεν πάντα καὶ ἠκολουθήσαμέν σοι.‹ ἀποκριθεὶς δὲ ὁ Ἰησοῦς [λέγγει]·› ἀμὴν ὑμῖν λέγω, ὃς ἂν ἀφῇ τὰ ἴδια καὶ γονεῖς καὶ ἀδελφοὺς καὶ χρήματα ἕνεκεν ἐμοῦ καὶ ἕνεκεν τοῦ εὐαγγελίου. ἀπολήψεται ἑκατονταπλασίονα. νῦν ἐν τῷ καιρῷ τούτῳ ἀγροὺς καὶ χρήματα καὶ οἰκίας καὶ ἀδελφοὺς ἔχειν μετὰ διωγμὼν εἰς ποῦ· ἐν δὲ τῷ ἐρχομένῳ ζωή[ν] ἐστιν αἰώνιος. [ἐν δὲ] ἔσονται οἱ πρῶτοι ἔσχατοι καὶ οἱ ἔσχατοι πρῶτοι.«

English · Claude translation

‘See, we have left everything and followed you.’ And Jesus answered, ‘Truly I say to you, whoever leaves his own possessions, and parents, and brothers, and riches for my sake and for the sake of the gospel will receive a hundredfold. Now in this time, to have fields and riches and houses and brothers with persecutions—to what end? But in the age to come there is eternal life. And the first will be last, and the last first.’”

About this passage

Source

Stählin 3:163 · 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; the problem in this passage is discussed in the notes.

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

Mark 10:28 · quotation, high confidence
Mark 10:29 · quotation, high confidence
Mark 10:30 · quotation, high confidence
Mark 10:31 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon, Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

The words translated “to what end?” (εἰς ποῦ) are probably corrupt in the single manuscript; the words in square brackets in the Greek are the editor's deletions.

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 4.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/4/10/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 4.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/4/10/).