Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 12.4

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

Summary: Someone can give up wealth and still crave it, suffering both its loss and regret.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:167

καὶ γὰρ αὖ κἀκεῖνό ἐστι· δύναταί τις ἀποφορτισάμενος τὴν κτῆσιν οὐδὲν ἧττον ἔτι τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν καὶ τὴν ὄρεξιν τῶν χρημάτων ἔχειν ἐντετηκυῖαν καὶ συζῶσαν καὶ τὴν μὲν χρῆσιν ἀποβεβληκέναι, ἀπορῶν δὲ ἅμα καὶ ποθῶν ἅπερ ἐσπάθησε διπλῇ λυπεῖσθαι, καὶ τῇ τῆς ὑπηρεσίας ἀπουσίᾳ καὶ τῇ

English · Claude translation

And there is this too: one can unload one's property and still have the desire and craving for money no less, rooted and living in one; one can have lost the use of it, yet, being in want and longing for what one squandered, be doubly grieved, both by the absence of its service and by

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Source: Stählin 3:167 · 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
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.
Topics: Ethics

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 12.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/12/4/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 12.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/12/4/).

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