1 Corinthians 4:15 (WEB)
For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
Fathers and councils · 16
Cyril of Jerusalem
“And that thou mayest learn more exactly that in the Divine Scriptures it is not by any means the natural father only that is called father, hear what Paul says:—For though ye should have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the Gospel.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 15.
Read the whole comment“For the Father being Very God begat the Son like unto Himself, Very God; not as teachers beget disciples, not as Paul says to some, For in Christ Jesus I begat you through the Gospel.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 15.
Read the whole comment“If thou hast a child according to the flesh, admonish him of this now; if thou hast begotten one through catechizing, put him also on his guard, lest he receive the false one as the True.” — editor's note: Compare 1 Cor. iv. 15: I begat you through the gospel. Clem. Alex. Strom. iii. c. 15: τῷ διὰ τῆς ἀληθοῦς κατηχήσεως γεννήσαντι κεῖταί τις μισθός.
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Augustine of Hippo
“To Simplicianus then I went,—the father of Ambrose (at that time a bishop) in receiving Thy grace, and whom he truly loved as a father.” — editor's note: Simplicianus succeeded Ambrose, 397 A.D. He has already been referred to, in the extract from De Civ. Dei, in note 1, p. 113, above as “the old saint…
Read the whole comment“For to this purpose said that dispenser of Thine,—begetting children by the gospel,—that he might not always have them “babes,” whom he would feed on milk, and cherish as a nurse; “be ye transformed,” saith He, “by the renewing of your mind, that he may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 15.
Read the whole comment“Bring unto the Lord yourselves, whom the Apostles, the leaders of the flocks, have begotten by the Gospel.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 15.
Read the whole comment“And he cannot sin, because he is born of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 15.
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Tertullian
““In the Gospel,” says he, “I have begotten you.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 15, where it is διὰ τοῦ εὐαγγελίου.
Read the whole comment““For,” says he, “I have begotten you through the gospel;” and “Ye are my children, of whom I travail again in birth.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 15.
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Gregory of Nyssa
- Gregory of Nyssa, On Virginity On Virginity.19On Virginity
“…moulded for the Lord, but all in the wide circuit from Jerusalem to Illyricum; his children filled the world, “begotten” by him in Christ through the Gospel.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 15; Philemon 10.
Read the whole comment “…and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost—for thus does the Gospel speak of the Spirit, that “that which is born of Spirit is spirit,” and it is “in Christ” that Paul begets, and the Father is the “Father of all;” here, then, I beg, let the mind of the hearer be sober in its choice, lest it make itself the…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 15.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“For he seeks not his own interests, but those of his children, whom he has begotten in Christ by the gospel.” — editor's note: Ib. iv. 15.
Read the whole comment“VII. But do ye also, if you bear me any good will—ye who are my husbandry, my vineyard, my own bowels, or rather His Who is our common Father, for in Christ he hath begotten you through the Gospels—shew to us also some respect.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 15. I.e., the Elder Gregory.
Read the whole comment“Do not thou, therefore, restrain a tongue whose noble utterances and fruits have been many, which has begotten many children of righteousness—yea, lift up thine eyes round about and see, how many are its sons, and what are its treasures; even this whole people, whom thou hast begotten in Christ through the Gospel.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 15.
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Clement of Alexandria
“In Christo enim per Evangelium ego vosgenui.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 15.
Read the whole comment“For some procreate by the body, others by the soul;” since also with the barbarian philosophers to teach and enlighten is called to regenerate; and “I have begotten you in Jesus Christ,” says the good apostle somewhere.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 15.
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Cross-references · 26
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.19.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.19.
Cited together in Confessions VIII.2.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.22.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.19.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.22.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.22 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Orations Oration 3.
Cited together in Orations Oration 3.
Cited together in Orations Oration 3.
Cited together in Confessions VIII.2.
Cited together in Confessions VIII.2.
Cited together in Confessions VIII.2.
Cited together in Confessions VIII.2.
Cited together in Confessions VIII.2.
Cited together in Confessions VIII.2.
Cited together in Orations Oration 3.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.19.
Cited together in Orations Oration 3.
Cited together in Confessions VIII.2.
Cited together in Confessions VIII.2.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.19.
Cited together in Orations Oration 3.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.19.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.22.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.22.