1 Corinthians 2:8 (WEB)
which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.
Catechism · 5
Grace and Justification
“It surpasses the power of human intellect and will, as that of every other creature.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Cor 2:7-9.
I Believe in God
“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.
"And in Jesus Christ, His Only Son, Our Lord"
“From then on, "Lord" becomes the more usual name by which to indicate the divinity of Israel's God. the New Testament uses this full sense of the title "Lord" both for the Father and - what is new - for Jesus, who is thereby recognized as God Himself.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. I Cor 2:8.
"Conceived by the Power of the Holy Spirit and Born of the Virgin Mary"
- §498Paragraph 2 · "Conceived by the Power of the Holy Spirit and Born of the Virgin Mary"Read at vatican.va
“St. Ignatius of Antioch already bears witness to this connection: "Mary's virginity and giving birth, and even the Lord's death escaped the notice of the prince of this world: these three mysteries worthy of proclamation were accomplished in God's silence."” — Catechism footnote: St. Ignatius of Antioch, Ad Eph. 19, 1: AF 11/2 76-80: cf. I Cor 2:8.
Jesus Died Crucified
“We, however, profess to know him. and when we deny him by our deeds, we in some way seem to lay violent hands on him.” — Catechism footnote: Roman Catechism I, 5, 11; cf. Heb 6:6; 1 Cor 2:8.
Fathers and councils · 53
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus III.19Book III
“…the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory; which none of the princes of this world knew.’”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 6–8.
Read the whole comment - Origen, De Principiis III.4Book III
“…ordained before the world unto our glory: which none of the princes of the world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 6–8.
Read the whole comment - Origen, De Principiis IV.2Book IV
“And, generally, we must investigate, according to the apostolic promise, “the wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world for the glory” of the just, which “none of the princes of this world knew.”” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. ii. 6, 7, 8.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“…a competition, which can attract those only who seek renown; if indeed any renown comes from indulging in such methods of argumentation, considering that Paul, that genuine minister of the Word, whose only ornament was truth, both disdained himself to lower his style to such prettinesses, and instructs us also, in a…” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Corinth. ii. 1–8.
Read the whole comment“…again in another passage calls Him Who was crucified ‘the Lord of Glory’: ‘for had they known it,’ he says, ‘they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory’.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
Read the whole comment“…the stripes of the servant, while the servant is glorified with the honour of the Lord; for this is why the Cross is said to be the Cross of the Lord of glory, and why every tongue confesses that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
Read the whole comment“…Man, while at the same time the exalted and Divine names descend to the Man, so that He Who was manifested upon the Cross is called even “the Lord of glory,” since the majesty implied in these names is transmitted from the Divine to the Human by the commixture of Its Nature with that Nature which is lowly.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“For had they known, they would not have been irreligious against ‘the Lord of glory,’ nor have wrested the good words of Scripture.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
Read the whole comment- Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians III.4Discourse III
“And when He asked glory, He was as He is, the Lord of glory; as Paul says, ‘If they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;’ for He had that glory which He asked when He said, ‘the glory which I had with Thee before the world was.’” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
Read the whole comment “But they understood not these things, for had they done so, ‘they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.’” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
Read the whole comment“But this wearied them, for they were not anxious to understand, ‘for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.’” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
Read the whole comment“For the Son, being God, and Lord of glory, was in the Body which was ingloriously nailed and dishonoured; but the Body, while it suffered, being pierced on the tree, and water and blood flowed from its side, yet because it was a temple of the Word was filled full of the Godhead.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
Read the whole comment“And did they thus know, “they would not,” as Paul said, “have crucified the Lord of glory.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
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John Damascene
“Hence it is that the Lord of Glory is said to have been crucified, although His divine nature never endured the Cross, and that the Son of Man is allowed to have been in heaven before the Passion, as the Lord Himself said.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
Read the whole comment“…natures, He still keeps the properties of the co-existing nature, that is, the flesh, being spoken of as God who suffers, and as the Lord of Glory crucified, not in respect of His being God but in respect of His being at the same time man.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
Read the whole comment“And this: They would not have crucified the Lord of Glory.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
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Catena Aurea on Mark
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Mark
“For the devils knew that He was the Christ, who had been promised by the Law: for they saw in Him all the signs which had been foretold by the Prophets; but they were ignorant of His divinity, as also were “their princes, for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.” [1 Cor 2:8]” — the author cites it
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
““For had they known him, they never would have suffered the Lord of glory to be crucified.” [1 Cor 2:8]” — the author cites it
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
“(1 Cor. 2:8.)” — the author cites it
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“For had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
““As to the passage where we read that the Lord of glory was crucified, let us not suppose that He was crucified in His own glory.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8
Read the whole comment“Eran.—What do you say to those words of the Apostle “Had they known it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory”? in this passage he mentions neither body nor soul.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8
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Ambrose of Milan
“When we read, then, that the Lord of glory was crucified, let us not suppose that He was crucified as in His glory.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
Read the whole comment“Let us not, then, be troubled if we find the Son of Man entitled “mighty” in one place, and yet in another, that the Lord of glory was crucified.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
Read the whole comment“For what can be better put than the Apostle’s saying that the Lord of glory was crucified?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
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Augustine of Hippo
“By enemies to this dispensation, which has been wrought through Jesus Christ and Him crucified, we ought generally to understand all who forbid belief in things unknown, and promise certain knowledge: as all heretics do, and they who in the superstition of the Gentiles are called philosophers.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 6–10.
Read the whole comment“For “had they known Him, they would never have crucified the Lord of Glory.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
Read the whole comment““For if they had known, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
Read the whole comment““For if they had known, never the Lord of Glory would they have crucified.”…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
Read the whole comment““For if they had known, never the Lord of glory would they have crucified.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
Read the whole comment“The shedding of the Lord’s blood was forgiven the manslayers, not to say, God-slayers: “for if they had known, the Lord of glory they never would have crucified.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
Read the whole comment“Which if they had known, the Lord of glory they never would have crucified.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
Read the whole comment“Their raging was as though against a man: but “if they had known, the Lord of Glory they had never crucified.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
Read the whole comment“Persecute and seize Him.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
Read the whole comment““For if even they had known, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory:” and those others, if they had known, would never have consented to ask that Barabbas should be freed, and Christ should be crucified.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
Read the whole comment““In a place of darkness, and in the shadow of death,” whiles they knew not what they did, they laid Him there, thus deeming of Him; they knew not Him “whom none of the princes of this world knew.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
Read the whole comment“For “if they had known” the Word, “they would never have crucified the Lord of glory.”…Therefore, when the Psalmist had said, “I will make answer unto them that reproach me with the word:” he at once addeth, “For my trust is in Thy words,” which meaneth exactly, in Thy promises.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
Read the whole comment“According to the form of God, “He is the Lord of glory.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8
Read the whole comment“Yet unless the very same were the Son of man on account of the form of a servant which He took, who is the Son of God on account of the form of God in which He is; Paul the apostle would not say of the princes of this world, “For had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8
Read the whole comment““For had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
Read the whole comment“They saw one part of what He was, they knew not the other, “For had they known Him, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
Read the whole comment““For had ye known Him, ye would never have crucified the Lord of Glory.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
Read the whole comment“For had they known Him, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
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John Chrysostom
“For it is no statement of mine, but of our fathers, wonderful and illustrious men.” — editor's note: St. Ignatius ad Ephes. xix. init. Κα λαθεν τον ρχοντα το ανο τουτο παρθενα Μαρα, κα τοκετς ατ, μοω κα θνατο το Κυρου τρα μυστρια κραυγ τινα ν συχ Θεο πρχθη.…
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Leo the Great
“And so it is that in the Creed also we all confess that the Only-begotten Son of God was crucified and buried, according to that saying of the Apostle: “for if they had known, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
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Jerome
“But, as it is written, Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8, 9.
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Tertullian
“…of the Holy Spirit, and (in consequence) of eternal hope; if, stripped of his mental “goods,” he has even handed his service over to the prince of the world—who else but the devil?—and by him being appointed over the business of “feeding swine”—of tending unclean spirits, to wit—has recovered his senses so as to…” — editor's note: Sæculi. Comp. 1 Cor. ii. 8; 2 Cor. iv. 4.
Read the whole comment“…on the subject of our glory, that “none of the princes of this world knew it, for had they known it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory,” the heretic argues that the princes of this world crucified the Lord (that is, the Christ of the rival god) in order that this blow might even recoil on the…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8.
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John Cassian
““For if,” he says, “they had known, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 8. See the note on IV. vii.
Read the whole comment“…the perfect:” and presently: “Whom none,” says he, “of the princes of this world knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 6, 8.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“…before the world for our glory: which none of the rulers of this world has known: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 7, 8.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“As John says these things to the multitude, and as the people watch in eager expectation of seeing some strange spectacle with their bodily eyes, and the devil is struck with amazement at such a testimony from John, lo, the Lord appears, plain, solitary, uncovered, without escort, having on Him the body of man like a…” — editor's note: It was a common opinion among the ancient theologians that the devil was ignorant of the mystery of the economy, founding on such passages as Matt. iv. 3, 1…
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Clement of Alexandria
“For had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 6–8.
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Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius VI.22 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.12.
Cited together in De Principiis III.4.
Cited together in Catechism §598.
Cited together in Catechism §598.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.7.
Cited together in Catechism §446.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith III.4.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.7.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.12.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.7.
Cited together in Against Eunomius V.2.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 8:28–34 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 8:28–34 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 8:28–34 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 8:28–34 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 8:28–34 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 8:28–34 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 8:28–34 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in De Principiis III.4.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.7.
Cited together in Catechism §598.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Mark 1:32–34 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Mark 1:32–34 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Mark 1:32–34 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 4:40–41 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 4:40–41 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.7 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.12.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.12.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.7.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.12.
Cited together in De Principiis III.4.
Cited together in Catechism §598.
Cited together in Catechism §598.