1 Corinthians 6:2 (WEB)
Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
Fathers and councils · 8
Council of Carthage (419)
““According to the Apostolic law,” viz., that of St. Paul, 1 Cor. vi. 1, 2, etc. I follow the Greek scholia in rendering this canon.” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
“For the Apostle instituted ecclesiastical judges of such causes, forbidding Christians to contend in the forum.…Certainly, on account of those who carry on law suits pertinaciously with one another, and, when they harass the good, scorn our judgments, and cause us to…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 1–6.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Do ye not know the saints shall judge the world?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 1, 2.
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Tertullian
“For avoiding it, remedies cannot be lacking; since, even if they be lacking, there remains that one by which you will be made a happier magistrate, not in the earth, but in the heavens.” — editor's note: i.e., Martyrdom (La Cerda, quoted by Oehler). For the idea of being “a magistrate in the heavens,” [sitting on a throne] compare such passages as Matt. xix.…
Read the whole comment“…a man must be surrendered to Satan for the destruction of the flesh;” chiding them likewise because “brethren” were not “judged at the bar of the saints:” for he goes on and says, “To what (purpose is it) for me to judge those who are without?”” — editor's note: See 1 Cor. vi. 1–6; v. 12.
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“And will she not hence recognise a prejudgment of her own damnation, in that she tends them whom (formerly) she was expecting to judge? whose hand will she yearn after? of whose cup will she partake?” — editor's note: See 1 Cor. vi. 2, 3.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Know ye not that the saints shall judge the world?” and so on.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 1, 2.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Know ye not that the saints shall judge this world?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 1, 2.
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Cross-references · 8
Cited together with
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.14.
Cited together in To His Wife II.6.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.14.
Cited together in To His Wife II.6.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.14.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.14.
Cited together in To His Wife II.6.
Quotes
The righteous will judge nations.
