2 Corinthians 11:9 (WEB)
When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.
Fathers and councils · 5
Augustine of Hippo
“This did also the brethren, and such fruit did they bear, who out of Macedonia supplied what was wanting unto him.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xi. 9.
Read the whole comment“But what I do, I also mean to do, that I may cut off occasion from them which seek occasion, that wherein they glory they may be found as also we.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xi. 7–12. [See R.V.]
Read the whole comment“…and wanted, was burdensome to no man of those among whom he was, but altogether that which was lacking to him the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xi. 9
Read the whole comment“Let us suppose him all those days that he was at Athens not to have worked: on this account, indeed, was his need supplied from Macedonia, as he says in the second to the Corinthians: though in fact he could work both at other hours and of nights, because he was so strong in both mind and body.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xi. 9
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John Cassian
“…supplied his wants from the brethren who came from Macedonia; “For that which was lacking to me,” he says, “the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied:” and to the Philippians he says: “For ye Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel, when I came from Macedonia, no church communicated with me…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xi. 9.
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Cross-references · 25
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 13.
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Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 13.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 13 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.
Cited together in The Institutes VII.17.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 21.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 21.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 21.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 21.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 13.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.
Cited together in The Institutes VII.17.
Cited together in The Institutes VII.17.
Cited together in The Institutes VII.17.
Cited together in The Institutes VII.17.
Cited together in The Institutes VII.17.