Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 21.6

Summary: But if they have given up the passions of the soul and follow Christ, they are among those enrolled in heaven.

Greek text · Stählin 3:174

τὸ τοῦ λόγου, καταλιπὼν μεγαλύνεται καὶ τούτων ἀνταξίαν ἀποφαίνων ἂν λάθοι τὴν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν· εἰ δέ, ἅπερ ἄρτι νῦν λέγομεν, τὰ παλαιὰ νοητὰ κτήματα καὶ ψυχικὰ νοσήματα ἀπορρίψαντες ἕπονται κατʼ ἴχνος τοῦ διδασκάλου, τοῦτʼ ἂν ἀνάπτοιτο ἤδη τοῖς ἐν οὐρανοῖς ἐγγραφησομένοις.

English · Claude translation

as the saying goes, and would unwittingly declare the kingdom of heaven equivalent to them. But if, as we have just now been saying, they throw away their old possessions of the mind and the diseases of the soul and follow in the footsteps of the Teacher, this would now attach them to those who will be enrolled in heaven.

About this passage

Source

Stählin 3:174 · 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

Luke 10:20 · echo, medium confidence
1 Pet 2:21 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Ethics

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 21.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/21/6/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 21.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/21/6/).