1 Corinthians 14:16 (WEB)
Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the “Amen” at your giving of thanks, seeing he doesn’t know what you say?
Fathers and councils · 3
Irenaeus of Lyons
“He imagines that the emblem of this utterance is found in Amen, which we pronounce in concert.” — editor's note: [1 Cor. xiv. 16.]
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Jerome
“How can I conscientiously approach Christ’s eucharist and answer the Amen if I doubt the charity of him who ministers it?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiv. 16, where in the Greek ‘giving of thanks’ is ‘eucharist.’
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Gregory of Nyssa
“If, on the other hand, the capacity to rule is shown by Its being included in the majesty of Kingship, where is the necessity of having everything dragged down to a plebeian and servile lower condition, and numbered with the subject creation?” — editor's note: ἰδιωτικήν. On 1 Cor. xiv. 16, ῾Ο ἀναπληρῶν τὸν τόπον τοῦ ἰδιώτου, Theodoret says, “ἰδιώτην καλεῖ τὸν ἐν τῷ λαικῷ τάγματι τεταγμένον.” Theophylact also renders…
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Cross-references · 5
Cited together in Against Heresies I.14.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.14.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.14.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.14.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.14.