1 Corinthians 4:9 (WEB)
For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
Fathers and councils · 10
Cyril of Jerusalem
“And the Martyrs confess, by being made a spectacle unto the world, and to Angels, and to men; and thou wilt soon confess:—but it is not yet the time for thee to hear of this.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 9.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“While they were thus struggling, and had become, as writes the blessed Paul, a spectacle to angels and to men, the whole city ran up to gaze at Christ’s athletes, vanquishing by stout endurance the scourges of the judge who was torturing them, winning by patience…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 9
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Augustine of Hippo
““For we have been made a spectacle unto this world, and unto angels, and unto men:” to angels who praise, to men who censure, us; or rather to angels, some of whom praise, some of whom are censuring us: and to men also, some of whom are…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 9.
Read the whole comment“That thy spirit may not sink, look on Him who goes before thee, and says, “We have been made a spectacle unto this world, and unto angels, and unto men.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 9.
Read the whole comment“Now two sorts of men are spectators of such spectacles; the one, carnal, the other, spiritual men.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 9.
Read the whole comment“…Spirit, crucified with Him, glorious in Him, lawfully maintaining a great conflict on the theatre of this world, and being made a spectacle to angels and men, and pressing onwards for the prize of his high calling,—very joyfully do we with the eyes of faith behold him rejoicing with them that rejoice, and weeping…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 9.
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Jerome
“She replied in the words of the apostle, “we are made a spectacle unto the world and to angels and to men,” and “we are fools for Christ’s sake” but “the foolishness of God is wiser than men.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 9.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…perils from his countrymen, perils among false brethren, the living by his own hands, the gospel without charge, the being a spectacle to both angels and men, set in the midst between God and men to champion His cause, and to unite them to Him, and make them His own peculiar people, beside those things that are…” — editor's note: Ib. iv. 9.
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Tertullian
“But here, at least, you say he interprets the world to be the God thereof, when he says: “We are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 9.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; being defamed, we entreat; we are become as it were the offscourings of the world.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 9, 11, 12, 13.
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Cross-references · 11
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Cited together in Ecclesiastical History IV.19.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History IV.19.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History IV.19.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History IV.19.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History IV.19.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History IV.19.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History IV.19.