1 Corinthians 9:22 (WEB)
To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
Catechism · 1
“Those who are called to the ministry of preaching must suit their words to the maturity and understanding of their hearers, as they hand on the teaching of the mysteries of faith and the rules of moral conduct.” — Catechism footnote: Roman Catechism, Preface II; cf. I Cor 9:22; I Pt 2:2
Fathers and councils · 21
Augustine of Hippo
“What therefore he saith, “I am made all things to all, that I might gain all,” that did he, by suffering with others, not by lying.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 22. [See R.V.]
Read the whole comment“…in likeness of compassion, not deceiving in fiction of lying; as he straightway goes on, and says, “I became to the weak as weak, that I might gain the weak.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 22
Read the whole comment“And as to what the Apostle says: “I am made all things to all men, that I might gain all;” the right understanding is, that he did this not by lying, but by sympathy; so that he dealt with them in liberating them with so great charity, as if he were himself in that evil from which he wished to make them whole.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 22
Read the whole comment“What is the explanation of this but that He made Himself “weak to the weak, in order that He might gain the weak?”” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. ix. 22
Read the whole comment“For this he also lays as the foundation beforehand, when he says: “For although I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 19–22.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“He is made all things to all men, remaining in His own nature what He is.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 22.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XVII.20Conference XVII
“…that I might gain those who were without law; to the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak: I became all things to all men, that I might save all;” what does he show but that according to the weakness and the capacity of those who were being instructed he always lowered himself and relaxed something of the…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 20–22.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“And again: “To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 22.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Who of us can truly say: “To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak”?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 22.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“For he, as I am confident, to the weak becomes weak to gain the weak.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 22.
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Tertullian
“In like manner, when he is saying, “I have become all things to all, that I may gain all,” does he mean “to idolaters an idolater?” “to heathens a heathen?” “to the worldly worldly?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 22.
Read the whole comment“But so did circumstances require him to “become all things to all, in order to gain all;” “travailing in birth with them until Christ should be formed in them;” and “cherishing, as it were a nurse,” the little ones of faith, by teaching them some…” — editor's note: See 1 Cor. ix. 22.
Read the whole comment“And yet as Paul himself “became all things to all men,” that he might gain all, it was possible that Peter also might have betaken himself to the same plan of practising somewhat different from what he taught.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 22.
Read the whole comment“…the law, as under the law,”—and so here with respect to those who come in secretly,—“and lastly, how he became all things to all men, that he might gain all.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 20, 22.
Read the whole comment“…that even Paul said that he was “made all things to all men—to the Jews a Jew,” to those who were not Jews as one who was not a Jew—“that he might gain all.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 20, 22.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“To heal and stay this disease needs a Peter or Paul, those great disciples of Christ, who in addition to guidance in word and deed, received their grace, and became all things to all men, that they might gain all.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 22.
Read the whole comment“I will say a word in their defence: we have thus trained them, by becoming all things to all men, whether to save or destroy all, I know not.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 22.
Read the whole comment“And if a man have not been a chatterer, and jester, and gossip, nor a general favourite, because of having pleased others by becoming all things to all men, what of that?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 22.
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Catena Aurea on Mark
- OrigenCatena Aurea on Mark
“After this He exhorts those of His disciples who are already grown to full stature to condescend to be useful to children, that they may become to children as children, that they may gain children [1 Cor 9:22]; for He Himself, when He was in the form of God, humbled Himself, and became a child.” — the author cites it
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Clement of Alexandria
“And every one that striveth for mastery is temperate in all things.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 19–25.
Read the whole comment“For “I became all things to all men, that I might gain all men.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 22.
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Cross-references · 31
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 14.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 14.
Cited together in On Lying Chapter 42.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 10.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 10.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 14.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.3 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion IV.3 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.19.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 10.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 10.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.3.
Cited together in Catechism §24.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 14.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 14.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.3.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.3.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.19.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.3.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 14.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 14.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 14.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 10.
Cited together in Origen on Mark 10:13–16 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Mark 10:13–16 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Mark 10:13–16 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Mark 10:13–16 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 14.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 12.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 14.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 12.