Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 5.2

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

Summary: Christ's words must not be taken in a fleshly way; their hidden meaning must be searched out carefully.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:163

δεῖ δὲ σαφῶς εἰδότας ὡς οὐδὲν ἀνθρωπίνως ὁ σωτήρ. ἀλλὰ πάντα θείᾳ σοφίᾳ καὶ μυστικῇ διδάσκει τοὺς ἑαυτοῦ, μὴ σαρκίνως ἀκροᾶσθαι τῶν λεγομένων. ἀλλὰ τὸν ἐν αὐτοῖς κεκρυμμένον νοῦν μετὰ τῆς ἀξίας ζητήσεως καὶ συνέσεως ἐρευνᾶν καὶ καταμανθάνειν.

English · Claude translation

We must know clearly that the Savior teaches nothing in a merely human way, but teaches his own everything with divine and mystical wisdom; we must not hear what is said in a fleshly way, but search out and learn the meaning hidden in it with due inquiry and understanding.

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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; 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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Digital text corrected (accent: circumflex on δεῖ): δεὶ δὲ σαφῶς → δεῖ δὲ σαφῶς.

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 5.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/5/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 5.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/5/2/).

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