Fathers

2 Corinthians 6

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We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed: But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true; As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged. Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

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What the Fathers say

2 Corinthians 6:18

Eastern Fathers

John Chrysostom

"And I will be to you a Father, and ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord." Seest thou how from the beginning the Prophet fore-announceth our present high birth, the Regeneration by grace?

Homily 13 on 2 Corinthians ↗

Theophylact of Ohrid

Do you see how the prophet long ago foretold the present regeneration and adoption that is accomplished in us through baptism?

Commentary on 2 Corinthians ↗

Clement of Alexandria

Paul is prophetic in telling us to put up a barrier, not between ourselves and the married but between ourselves and the Gentiles who are still living immorally, and also from those heresies which believe neither in chastity nor in God.

The Stromata Book 3 ↗

Western Saints

Thomas Aquinas

Two rewards are promised to those who heed this admonition, namely, familiarity with God and adoption by God. Familiarity with God, because I will welcome you. As if to say: go out confidently, because I will welcome you as mine: "For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the LORD will take me up" (Ps. 27:10); "Blessed is he whom thou dost choose and bring near, to dwell in your courts!" (Ps. 65:5); "Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights" (Is. 42:1). …

Commentary on 2 Corinthians ↗