2 Corinthians 12:10 (WEB)
Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
Fathers and councils · 25
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X VI.3Conference VI
“For when I am weak, then I am strong, for power is made perfect in infirmity.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xii. 9, 10.
Read the whole comment - John Cassian, Conferences I–X VII.5Conference VII
“You see then that none but sufferers and weak people can fight the Lord’s battles, weak indeed with that weakness, founded on which that centurion of ours in the gospel said with confidence: “For when I am weak, then am I strong,” and again, “for strength is made perfect in weakness.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xii. 9, 10.
Read the whole comment - John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIV.23Conference XXIV
“…cause I please myself in my infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ: for when I am weak, then am I strong”?” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xii. 10.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…sleep not in despair and say, “I cannot;” but that it may awake in the love of Thy mercy and the sweetness of Thy grace, by which he that is weak is strong, if by it he is made conscious of his own weakness.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xii. 10.
Read the whole comment“Our strength is in the safety of His favour, when even out of tribulation He giveth help, that “when we are weak, then we may be strong.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xii. 10.
Read the whole comment““When I am weak,” saith he, “then am I strong.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xii. 10.
Read the whole comment“It is no wonder, then, that so humble is the Apostle, as to say, “When I am made weak, then I am strong.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xii. 10.
Read the whole comment“Here God maketh this answer to thee, yea indeed let thy strength fail, in order that in thee mine may abide: in order that thou mayest say with the Apostle, “When I am made weak, then I am mighty.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xii. 10.
Read the whole comment“For He it is who hammereth: for the hammer could not do so of itself.…See how (I dare so speak, my brethren) even the Apostle was beaten with this very hammer: he saith, “there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan, to buffet me.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xii. 7–10.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“And again, ‘Exercise thyself unto godliness.’” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xii. 10; 1 Tim. iv. 7.
Read the whole comment“He would not anoint himself with oil, saying it behoved young men to be earnest in training and not to seek what would enervate the body; but they must accustom it to labour, mindful of the Apostle’s words, ‘when I am weak, then am I strong.’” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xii. 10.
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John Chrysostom
“And that these things seem good to God, hear him saying, “For this I besought the Lord thrice, and He said to me, My Grace is sufficient for thee; for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” ( 2 Cor. xii. 8–10.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“When he heard this he received it thankfully, and says, “Wherefore I take pleasure in infirmities” ( 2 Cor. xii. 10 ); that is, I am pleased, I rest in my afflictions.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“But virtue, even after his labor, he affirms to be light, callingthe laboriousness of our affliction momentary and “light,” and rejoicing in his sufferings, and glorying in his tribulations, and taking a pride in the marks wherewith he had been branded for Christ’s sake.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 17, xii. 10; Rom. v. 3; Gal. vi. 17; Col. i. 24.
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Jerome
“He will come, it may be, when the limbs are weary with fasting, and rack them with the pangs of disease; but the cry of the apostle will repel him: “When I am weak, then am I strong,” and “My strength is made perfect in weakness.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xii. 10, 9.
Read the whole comment“His bodily eyes are blinded to clear the eyes of his soul, and he who once haled Christ’s servants in chains before the council of the Jews, lives afterwards to glory in the bonds of Christ.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xii. 10.
Read the whole comment“Should pain afflict you, read “Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities,” and “There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xii. 10, 7.
Read the whole comment“God’s reply was: “My grace is sufficient for thee; for my strength is made perfect in weakness.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xii. 8, 9, 10.
Read the whole comment“In her frequent sicknesses and infirmities she used to say, “when I am weak, then am I strong:” “we have our treasure in earthen vessels” until “this corruptible shall have put on incorruption and this mortal shall have put on immortality” and again “as…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xii. 10.
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Basil the Great
“As when Paul says, “When I am weak, then I am strong,” the same man is weak and is strong, but he is weak in the flesh and strong in the spirit.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xii. 10.
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Ambrose of Milan
““When I am weak,” says the Apostle, “then I become strong.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xii. 10.
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Tertullian
““But withal himself says that ‘a stake was given him, an angel of Satan,’ by which he was to be buffeted, lest he should exalt himself.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xii. 7–10.
Read the whole comment“Plainly, a Christian will “glory” even in the flesh; but (it will be) when it has endured laceration for Christ’s sake, in order that the spirit may be crowned in it, not in order that it may draw the eyes and sighs of youths after it.” — editor's note: Comp. 2 Cor. xi. 18; xii. 10; Phil. iii. 3, 4.
Read the whole comment“And if these severities will seem to be more grievous than martyrdoms, yet once more he says: “Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xii. 10.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“He takes pleasure in the dying of Jesus, as if it were a kind of ornament.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 10; xii. 9, 10.
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Cited together in Conferences I–X VI.3.
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Cited together in On the Apparel of Women II.2.
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Cited together in Confessions X.3.
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