1 Corinthians 6:3 (WEB)
Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?
Fathers and councils · 19
Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
“…to sit to judge; but he shews that he with the rest of the saints pertains to the number of judges, when he says, “Know ye not that we shall judge Angels?” [1 Cor 6:3]” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
“See after what sort He hath made Himself judge: not only himself, but also all that judge aright in the Church.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 3.
Read the whole comment“For not alone He shall come to judgment, but with the elders of His people: to whom He hath promised that they shall sit upon thrones to judge, who even shall judge angels.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 3.
Read the whole comment“Was it not said to servants, “Ye shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel”? and the servants say, “Know ye not that we shall judge Angels?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 3.
Read the whole comment““Know ye not, that we shall judge Angels,” he writes.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 3.
Read the whole comment“The faithful of the earth judge, for to them it is said, “Know ye not, that we shall judge angels?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 3.
Read the whole comment“Martyrs are here sentenced, and brought to the judgment-seat, that they may judge not only those by whom they have been judged, but even give judgment on angels, against whom was their struggle here, even when they seemed to be judged by men.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 3.
Read the whole comment“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.
Read the whole comment“…throne of judgment; but he unmistakeably considers himself to be included in the number of the judges when he says, “Know ye not that we shall judge angels?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 3.
Read the whole comment“The apostle had righteousness, but not yet that judgment of which he says, “Know ye not that we shall judge angels?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 3.
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John Chrysostom
“…again, “They shall be your judges;”and again of one at advantage, “Know ye not, that we shall judge angels, how much more things that pertain to this life?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 3.
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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.
Read the whole comment““Know ye not that we are to judge angels?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 3.
Read the whole comment“He grieves that that sinner, (now) Christ’s servant, is destined to judge him and his angels.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 3.
Read the whole comment“And these are the angels whom we are destined to judge: these are the angels whom in baptism we renounce: these, of course, are the reasons why they have deserved to be judged by man.” — editor's note: See 1 Cor. vi. 3.
Read the whole comment“But when the comparison is challenged with an angel, I am compelled to maintain that the head over all things is the stronger of the two, to whom the angels are ministers, who is destined to be the judge of angels, if he shall stand fast in the law of God—an obedience which he refused at first.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 3.
Read the whole comment- Tertullian, To His Wife II.6Book II
“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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Aphrahat
“Remember that the Apostle also said, We shall judge angels.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 3.
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Cross-references · 14
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women I.1.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women I.1.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women I.1.
Cited together in To His Wife II.6.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.9.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women I.1.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.9.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 19:27–30 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 19:27–30 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women I.1.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women I.1.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women I.1.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women I.1.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women I.1.