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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 4.8

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

Summary: The man had great wealth; Jesus says how hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom, and the disciples are amazed.

Greek text · Stählin 3:162

ἦν γὰρ ἔχων χρήματα πολλὰ καὶ ἀγρούς. περιβλεψάμενος δὲ ὁ Ἰησοῦς λέγει τοῖς μαθηταῖς αὐτοῦ· ›πῶς δυσκόλως οἱ τὰ χρήματα ἔχοντες εἰσελεύσονται εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ θεοῦ.‹ οἱ δὲ μαθηταὶ ἐθαμβοῦντο ἐπὶ τοῖς λόγοις αὐτοῦ.

English · Claude translation

for he had many possessions and fields. And Jesus, looking around, says to his disciples, ‘How hard it will be for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!’ And the disciples were amazed at his words.

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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)
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Topics
Scripture and canon

Notes

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (word split in the digital text): οἱ τὰ χρήμα τα ἔχοντες → οἱ τὰ χρήματα ἔχοντες.

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 4.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/4/8/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 4.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/4/8/).

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