1 Corinthians 11:19 (WEB)
For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.
Catechism · 1
“The Eucharistic assembly (synaxis), because the Eucharist is celebrated amid the assembly of the faithful, the visible expression of the Church.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Cor 11:17-34.
Fathers and councils · 20
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus III.13Book III
“And respecting these, Paul appears to me to speak in a very striking manner when he says, “For there must be heresies among you, that they who are approved may be made manifest among you.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 19.
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Tertullian
“Now if there are no heresies at all but what those who refute them are supposed to have fabricated, then the apostle who predicted them must have been guilty of falsehood.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 19.
Read the whole comment“Now it is no matter of surprise if arguments are captiously taken from the writings of (the apostle) himself, inasmuch as there “must needs be heresies;” but these could not be, if the Scriptures were not capable of a false interpretation.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 19.
Read the whole comment“Now, since it was “needful that there should be heresies, in order that they which are approved might be made manifest;” since, however, these heresies would be unable to put on a bold front without some countenance from the Scriptures, it therefore is plain enough that the…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 19.
Read the whole comment“We have often shown before now, that the apostle classes heresies as evil among “works of the flesh,” and that he would have those persons accounted estimable who shun heresies as an evil thing.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 18, 19.
Read the whole comment“And therefore “heresies must needs be in order that they which are approved might be made manifest,” both those who remained stedfast under persecution, and those who did not wander out of their way into heresy.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 19.
Read the whole comment“Now, that which he subjoins to evil things, he of course confesses to be itself an evil; and all the greater, indeed, because he tells us that his belief of their schisms and dissensions was grounded on his knowledge that “there must be heresies also.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 19.
Read the whole comment“Nor do I risk contradiction in saying that the very Scriptures were even arranged by the will of God in such a manner as to furnish materials for heretics, inasmuch as I read that “there must be heresies,” which there cannot be without the Scriptures.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 19.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For there must be also heresies, that the approved may be made manifest among the weak.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 19.
Read the whole comment““For there must be also heresies, that they which are approved,” he says, “may be made manifest among you:” that is, among men, seeing they are manifest to God.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 19.
Read the whole comment“…manner the Apostle bringeth out into light; “It is needful,” he saith, “that also heresies there be, in order that men proved may be made manifest among you.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 19.
Read the whole comment“For with less carefulness would truth be sought out, if it had not lying adversaries; “For there must be also heresies among you,” and as though we should enquire the cause, he immediately subjoined, “that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 19.
Read the whole comment“But even the heretics yield an advantage to those that make proficiency, according to the apostle’s saying, “There must also be heresies, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 19.
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Justin Martyr
“For he said, ‘Many shall come in My name, clothed outwardly in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.’ ” And, ‘There shall be schisms and heresies.’” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 19.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Glossa OrdinariaCatena Aurea on Matthew
“Or they must needs come because they are necessary, that is, useful, that by this mean “they that are approved may be made manifest.” [1 Cor 11:19]” — the author cites it
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Leo the Great
“But since the Apostle says, “there must be heresies, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you,” it tends to the progress of the whole Church, that, whenever wickedness reveals itself in setting forth wrong opinions, the things which are harmful be not…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 19.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“The Holy Spirit forewarns and says by the apostle, “It is needful also that there should be heresies, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 19.
Read the whole comment“In the first epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: “Heresies must needs be, in order that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 19.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“…up in our own day, by which certain ignorant and presumptuous men have attempted to scatter abroad the Church, and have introduced the greatest confusion among all the faithful throughout the entire world.” — editor's note: [1 Cor. xi. 19. These terrible confusions were thus foretold. Note the remarkable feeling, the impassioned tone, of the Apostle’s warning in Acts xx. 28–31.]
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Clement of Alexandria
“Further, it is said that it is on account of “those that are approved that heresies exist.” [The apostle] calls “approved,” either those who in reaching faith apply to the teaching of the Lord with some discrimination (as those are called skilful…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 19.
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Cross-references · 30
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 40.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 40.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.2.
Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 3.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies IX.1.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 40.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.2.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies IX.1.
Cited together in Letters Letter 123.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.2.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.2.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 63.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 35 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.2.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.15.
Cited together in Glossa Ordinaria on Matthew 18:7–9 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Glossa Ordinaria on Matthew 18:7–9 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Glossa Ordinaria on Matthew 18:7–9 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in The City of God XVI.2.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 35.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.2.
Cited together in Confessions VII.19.
Cited together in Confessions VII.19.
Cited together in Confessions VII.19.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 63.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 63.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies IX.1.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies IX.1.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies IX.1.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.2.