Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 17.5

Greek text · Stählin 3:170–171

διὸ καὶ προσέθηκεν ὁ Ματθαῖος· »μακάριοι οἱ πτωχοί·« πῶς; »τῷ πνεύματι.« καὶ πάλιν· »μακάριοι οἱ πεινῶντες καὶ διψῶντες τὴν δικαιοσύνην τοῦ θεοῦ·« οὐκοῦν ἄθλιοι οἱ ἐναντίοι πτωχοί, θεοῦ μὲν ἄμοιροι, ἀμοιρότεροι δὲ τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης κτήσεως, ἄγευστοι δὲ δικαιοσύνης θεοῦ.

English · Claude translation

That is why Matthew added: “Blessed are the poor.” How? “In spirit.” And again: “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for the righteousness of God.” So wretched are the opposite kind of poor, who have no share in God, and still less in human possessions, and have not tasted the righteousness of God.

About this passage

Source

Stählin 3:170–171 · 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.

Scripture

Matt 5:3 · quotation, high confidence
Matt 5:6 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Ethics

Notes

Translation notes

The quotations are Matt 5:3 and 5:6 (with “of God” added).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (letters missing in the digital text): τὴν δικαιοτοῦ θεοῦ → τὴν δικαιοσύνην τοῦ θεοῦ.

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 17.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/17/5/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 17.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/17/5/).