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
"Yea, and if I am offered." He said not, "and if I die even," nor did he when writing to Timothy, for there, too, he has made use of the same expression, "For I am already being offered." He is both consoling them about his own death, and instructing them to bear gladly the death that is for Christ's sake. I am become, he says, as it were a libation and a sacrifice. O blessed soul! His bringing them to God he calls a sacrifice. It is much better to present a soul than to present oxen. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
Although, he says, I also die, for he calls death a sacrifice, "I am being poured out as a libation upon the sacrifice and service of your faith," that is, having first made you a sacrifice to God, having dedicated you to the service of God and having first made you believers. But in view of death I am not in the least grieved, but I rejoice and rejoice together with you all. I rejoice that I am becoming a sacrifice, and I rejoice together that I bring your faith to Christ as an offering.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
He refers to his suffering when he says, even if I am to be poured as a libation upon the sacrificial offering of your faith. For in converting others he offers to God a sacrifice of those he converts. But sometimes tyrants mingle the blood of the offerers with their sacrifices, as in Luke (13:1); hence he says: I offer God the sacrifice of your faith. …
Translation