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Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 4.5

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

Summary: The man asks how to inherit eternal life; Jesus answers that only God is good.

Greek text · Stählin 3:162

›διδάσκαλε ἀγαθέ, τί ποιήσω, ἵνα ζωὴν αἰώνιον κληρονομήσω;‹ ὁ δὲ Ἰησοῦς λέγει· τί με ἀγαθὸν λέγεις; οὐδεὶς ἀγαθὸς εἰ μὴ εἷς ὁ θεός.

English · Claude translation

‘Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?’ And Jesus says, ‘Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, God.

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Source
Stählin 3:162 · 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.
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Scripture and canon

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 4.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/4/5/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 4.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-quis-dives/4/5/).

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