2 Corinthians 1:22 (WEB)
who also sealed us and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.
Catechism · 4
The Liturgy - Work of the Holy Trinity
“Sent by the Father who hears the epiclesis of the Church, the Spirit gives life to those who accept him and is, even now, the "guarantee" of their inheritance.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Eph 1:14; 2 Cor 1:22.
The Sacrament of Baptism
“The Holy Spirit has marked us with the seal of the Lord ("Dominicus character") "for the day of redemption."” — Catechism footnote: St. Augustine, Ep. 98, 5: PL 33, 362; Eph 4:30; cf. 1:13-14; 2 Cor 1:21-22.
The Sacrament of Confirmation
“Christians are also marked with a seal: "It is God who establishes us with you in Christ and has commissioned us; he has put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee."” — Catechism footnote: 2 Cor 1:21-22; cf. Eph 1:13; 4, 30.
"I Believe in the Holy Spirit"
“"The Father has set his seal" on Christ and also seals us in him.” — Catechism footnote: Jn 6:27; cf. 2 Cor 1:22; Eph 1:13; 4:30.
Fathers and councils · 10
Cyril of Jerusalem
“Get you the earnest of the Holy Spirit through faith, that ye may be able to be received into the everlasting habitations.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. i. 22.
Read the whole comment“And again, But He who sealed us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the earnest of the Spirit.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. i. 22.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Whence we have in this pilgrimage received “an earnest” that we should now be light, whilst as yet we “are saved by hope,” and are the children of light, and the children of the day,—not the children of the night nor of the darkness, which yet we have been.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. i. 22.
Read the whole comment“…can know all truth, when even the apostle says, “We know in part”?), but because it is effected by the Holy Spirit, of whom we have now received the earnest, that we shall attain also to the actual fullness of knowledge: whereof it is said by the same apostle, “But then face to face;” and, “Now I know in part, but…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. i. 22.
Read the whole comment“…truth which, at the time He was speaking to them, they were unable to bear: of the which Holy Spirit, as the apostle says, we have now received “the earnest,” an expression whereby we are to understand that His fullness is reserved for us till another life: that Holy Spirit, therefore, teacheth believers also in the…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. i. 22.
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John Chrysostom
“For (he saith) we have the earnest; that is, it hath not been extinguished, it hath not ceased, but it is strong and prevaileth.” — editor's note: St. Chrys. seems to have had in view 2 Cor. i. 21, 22 , where “confirming” is connected with the earnest of “the Spirit.” [The passage is, “how he which…
Read the whole comment“…here of the doctrine) “and the powers of the world to come” (what powers is he speaking of? either the working of miracles, or “the earnest of the Spirit”— 2 Cor. i. 22 ) “and have fallen away, to renew them again unto repentance, seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh and put Him to an open shame.”” — the author cites it
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Tertullian
“But none either pardons sins or freely grants the Spirit save God only.” — editor's note: Mark ii. 8; 1 Thess. iv. 8; 2 Cor. i. 21, 22; v. 5.
Read the whole comment“Surely the flesh has received even here the spirit—but only its “earnest;” whereas of the soul (it has received) not the earnest, but the full possession.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. i. 22, v. 5, and Eph. i. 14.
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Basil the Great
“…the judgment is accomplished without the Holy Spirit, wherein the word points out that He is Himself the prize of the righteous, when instead of the earnest is given that which is perfect, and the first condemnation of sinners, when they are deprived of that which they seem to have?” — editor's note: 2 Cor. i. 22, v. 5.
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 53.
Cited together in Catechism §698 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Catechism §1107 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Catechism §698 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Catechism §1296.
Cited together in Catechism §1296.
Cited together in Catechism §1296.
Cited together in Catechism §1296.
Cited together in Catechism §1296.
Cited together in Catechism §1296.
Cited together in Catechism §698 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 53.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 53.