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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 20.4

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

Summary: The disciples understood that the Lord spoke in a parable with deep meaning.

Greek text · Stählin 3:173

τί οὖν φοβηθέντες λέγουσι· »τίς δύναται σωθῆναι;« καλῶς ἤκουσαν καὶ ὡς μαθηταὶ τοῦ παραβολικῶς καὶ ἀ σαφῶς λεχθέντος ὑπὸ τοῦ κυρίου καὶ ᾔσθοντο τοῦ βάθους τῶν λόγων.

English · Claude translation

Why then do they say in fear, “Who can be saved?” They heard well, as disciples, what the Lord had spoken in a parable and obscurely, and they perceived the depth of the words.

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Source
Stählin 3:173 · 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. 20.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/20/4/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 20.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/20/4/).

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