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Saint Paul Writing His Epistles, Valentin de Boulogne

1 Corinthians 2:14

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1 Corinthians 2:14 (WEB)

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him; and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Catechism · 2

The Church, Mother and Teacher

  • §2038Article 3 · The Church, Mother and TeacherRead at vatican.va

    “Faith and the practice of the Gospel provide each person with an experience of life "in Christ," who enlightens him and makes him able to evaluate the divine and human realities according to the Spirit of God.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Cor 2:10-15.

I Believe in God

  • §221Paragraph 1 · I Believe in GodRead at vatican.va

    “By sending his only Son and the Spirit of Love in the fullness of time, God has revealed his innermost secret:” — Catechism footnote: Cf. I Cor 2:7-16; Eph 3:9-12.

Fathers and councils · 30

Augustine of Hippo

Origen

  • Origen, Against Celsus VI.71Book VI

    “…natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned”), weaves together (such a web) as pleases himself, imagining that we, in calling God a Spirit, differ in no respect in this particular from the Stoics among…” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. ii. 14.

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Irenaeus of Lyons

  • Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies Fragments from.36Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenæus

    “True knowledge, then, consists in the understanding of Christ, which Paul terms the wisdom of God hidden in a mystery, which “the natural man receiveth not,” the doctrine of the cross; of which if any man “taste,” he will not accede to the disputations and quibbles of proud and puffed-up men, who go into matters of…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 14.

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  • Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies I.8Book I

    “Paul, too, very plainly set forth the material, animal, and spiritual, saying in one place, “As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy;” and in another place, “But the animal man receiveth not the things of the Spirit;” and again: “He that is spiritual judgeth all things.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 14.

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  • Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies V.8Book V

    “Justly, therefore, did the apostle call all such “carnal” and “animal,” —[all those, namely], who through their own unbelief and luxury do not receive the Divine Spirit, and in their various phases cast out from themselves the…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 14, 1 Cor. iii. 1, etc.

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Tertullian

  • Tertullian, On Fasting Chapter 3

    “…prophetically interpreted that “great sacrament” with reference to Christ and the Church, and no longer being “capable of the things which were the Spirit’s,” yielded more readily to his belly than to God, heeded the meat rather than the mandate, and sold salvation for his gullet!” — editor's note: See 1 Cor. ii. 14.

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  • Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion II.2Book II

    “Now, if from the very first “the natural man, not receiving the things of the Spirit of God,” has deemed God’s law to be foolishness, and has therefore neglected to observe it; and as a further consequence, by his not having faith, “even that which he…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 14.

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  • Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion IV.22Book IV

    “For when a man is rapt in the Spirit, especially when he beholds the glory of God, or when God speaks through him, he necessarily loses his sensation, because he is overshadowed with the power of God,—a point concerning which there is a question between us and the carnally-minded.” — editor's note: He calls those the carnally-minded (“psychicos”) who thought that ecstatic raptures and revelations had ceased in the church. The term arises from a perverse…

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Gregory of Nyssa

Hippolytus of Rome

Clement of Alexandria

Jerome

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