Sophia Scriptura

Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 14.6

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

Summary: The command to sell all one's possessions refers to the passions of the soul.

Greek text · Stählin 3:169

ἵνα καλὸς καὶ ἀγαθὸς γενόμενος καὶ τούτοις τοῖς κτήμασι χρῆσθαι δυνηθῇ καλῶς. τὸ οὖν ἀποτάξασθαι πᾶσι τοῖς ὑπάρχουσι καὶ πωλῆσαι πάντα τὰ ὑπάρχοντα τοῦτον τὸν τρόπον ἐκδεκτέον ὡς ἐπὶ τῶν ψυχικῶν παθῶν διειρημένον.

English · Claude translation

so that, having become noble and good, he may be able to use these possessions nobly too. To renounce all one's possessions, then, and sell all that one has, must be understood in this way, as spoken of the passions of the soul.

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Source
Stählin 3:169 · 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
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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.
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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 14.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/14/6/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 14.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/14/6/).

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