Loading…
VRSZ
This sets the art on your cards and whose commentary you read on each verse. You can change it later in settings.
Translation
Loading…
What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"But I beseech you, that I may hot when present show courage with the confidence, wherewith I count to be bold against some which count of us as if we walked according to the flesh." Seest thou how great his indignation, and how complete his refutation of those sayings of theirs? …
Theophylact of Ohrid
Having finished his discourse on almsgiving, he now begins to speak with severity against the false apostles and those who disparaged him as feeble-minded and foolishly boastful, and he intends to defend himself, having been compelled to do so lest the preaching lose its authority. He points both to his own deeds and to the grace given by God. Therefore, one would not err in calling this epistle a panegyric of Paul. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
After dealing with the good ministers of Christ and of the faith, the Apostle now attacks false ministers and false apostles. First, he attacks these; secondly, those who, being deceived by them, have adhered to them (chap. 13). In regard to the first he does two things. First, he gives the reason, excusing himself from the task imposed on him; secondly, he gives the evidence for the fact (v. 7). In regard to the first he does two things. First, he refuses to make a test; secondly, he excuses himself with a reason (v. 2b). …
Translation