Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 4.3

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

Summary: The sayings about wealth trouble us because we have heard them without examining them.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:162

οὐδὲν γὰρ οἷον αὐτῶν αὖθις ἀκοῦσαι τῶν ῥητῶν. ἅπερ ἡμᾶς ἐν τοῖς εὐαγγελίοις ἄχρι νῦν διετάρασσεν ἀβασανίστως καὶ διημαρτημένως ὑπὸ νηπιότητος ἀκροωμένους.

English · Claude translation

For there is nothing like hearing the very sayings again, which up to now have troubled us in the Gospels because we heard them without examination and mistakenly, through childishness.

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Source: Stählin 3:162 · 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: Scripture and canon

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 4.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/4/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 4.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/4/3/).

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