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2 Corinthians 10:14

2 Corinthians 10:14 (WEB)

For we don’t stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn’t reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Christ,

Fathers and councils · 5

Cyril of Jerusalem

  • “And if Paul say to the Corinthians, For we came even as far as unto you in preaching the Gospel of Christ, having hope when your faith increases to preach the Gospel in the regions beyond you, thou seest manifestly that as far as implies not the end, but has something following it.” — editor's note: Ib. x. 14, 15, 16.

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Jerome

  • “…each individual bishop of the Church has under him churches which are placed in his charge, and although no man may stretch himself beyond his measure, yet the love of Christ, which is without dissimulation, is set up as an example to us all; and we must consider not so much the thing done as the time and…” — editor's note: Cf. 2 Cor. x. 14.

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  • “For some persons are so ignorant of their own measure and so stupid and foolish that they make themselves laughing stocks to those who see them because of their gesture or gait or dress or conversation.” — editor's note: Cf. 2 Cor. x. 14.

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Clement of Alexandria

  • “But he teaches that knowledge (gnosis), which is the perfection of faith, goes beyond catechetical instruction, in accordance with the magnitude of the Lord’s teaching and the rule of the Church.” — editor's note: [Canon-law referred to as already recognised. And see 2 Cor. x. 13–15 (Greek), as to a certain ecclesiastical rule or canon observed by the apostles. It may…

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Cyprian of Carthage

  • “In the Epistle of Peter to them of Pontus: “Nor let any of you suffer as a thief, or a murderer, or as an evil-doer, or as a minder of other people’s business, but as a Christian.”” — editor's note: [Gr. ὡς ἀλλοτριοεπίσκοπος; a strange expression. This is St. Paul’s canon (Greek) of jurisdiction, which he expounds, 2 Cor. x. 13, 14. Comp. Gal. ii. 9.…

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Cross-references · 9

  • Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.18.

  • Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.38 and 1 other place.

  • Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.18.

  • Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.38.

  • Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.38.

  • Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.18.

  • Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.18.

  • Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.18.

  • Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.18.

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