2 Corinthians 13:4 (WEB)
For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.
Catechism · 1
“St. Paul insists on the manifestation of God's power” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Rom 6:4; 2 Cor 13:4; Phil 3:10; Eph 1:19-22; Heb 7:16.
Fathers and councils · 23
Gregory of Nyssa
“…Word Who was in the beginning Whom God made Lord and Christ, but He Who ‘emptied Himself to take the form of a servant,’ and ‘was crucified through weakness.’” — editor's note: Cf. 2 Cor. xiii. 4.
Read the whole comment“…(for he says, “in the flesh,” not “in the Godhead”); and “He was crucified through weakness” (where by “weakness” he means “the flesh”), “yet liveth by power” (while he indicates by “power” the Divine Nature); and, “He died unto sin” (that is, with regard to the body), “but liveth unto God” (that is, with regard to…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xiii. 4.
Read the whole comment“The fact that the Apostle’s discourse refers to Him Who was “crucified through weakness” is forsooth powerfully disproved when we learn that if we believe this to be so, the man who was “seen” again becomes another, “emptying Himself” for another coming into being of man.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xiii. 4.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
- Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies Fragments from.52Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenæus
“…shame on earth, while He is higher than all glory and praise in heaven; who, “though He was crucified through weakness, yet He liveth by divine power;” who “descended into the lower parts of the earth,” and who “ascended up above the heavens;” for whom a manger sufficed, yet who filled all things; who was…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xiii. 4.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
“(2 Cor. 13:4.)” — the author cites it
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Origen
- Origen, De Principiis IV.3Book IV
“This “word,” then, and this “wisdom,” by the imitation of which we are said to be either wise or rational (beings), becomes “all things to all men, that it may gain all;” and because it is made weak, it is therefore said of it, “Though He was crucified through weakness, yet He liveth by the power of God.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xiii. 4.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“In this sense, also, the inspired Paul says of Him: “Though He was crucified in weakness, yet He liveth by the power of God.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xiii. 4.
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Ambrose of Milan
“See you not that those weaknesses, as you please to call them, of Christ’s are your strength?” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xii. 9; xiii. 4; 1 Pet. ii. 24; iv. 13.
Read the whole comment““I know,” he says, “a man, whether in the body or out of the body, I cannot tell, God knoweth, how he was caught up into Paradise and heard unspeakable words.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xiii. 3, 4.
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Augustine of Hippo
“He came humble, He came weak, but clothed with a weakness to be changed into strength, because “though He was crucified of weakness, yet He liveth of the virtue of God,” the Apostle saith.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xiii. 4.
Read the whole comment“Conquered, because he willed it; in flesh weak, in majesty strong.…Having been crucified of weakness, rise Thou in power: “Stir up Thy power, and come Thou, to save us.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xiii. 4.
Read the whole comment“Need and poverty is that weakness, through which He was crucified.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xiii. 4.
Read the whole comment“For in Christ’s resurrection, “strength” is especially set forth to us, for in His Passion was weakness, as the Apostle saith.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xiii. 4; Philip. iii. 10.
Read the whole comment““For He was crucified of weakness, but He liveth by the power of God.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xiii. 4.
Read the whole comment“…of glory was crucified, because even God is rightly said to have been crucified, not after the power of the divinity, but after the weakness of the flesh: just as we say, that He judges as God, that is, by divine power, not by human; and yet the man Himself will judge, just as the Lord of glory was crucified: for…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xiii. 4
Read the whole comment“And, “though He was crucified through weakness,” as the Apostle saith, “yet He liveth by the power of God.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xiii. 4.
Read the whole comment“…that is, He suffered; “and was naked,” that is, His weakness appeared in His suffering, as the apostle says, “though He was crucified through weakness.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor xiii. 4.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“…being God had died as man, rose again from death as man to be God, as the Apostle says: He was crucified from weakness, yet He liveth by the power of God, and again: For I am not ashamed of the Gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xiii. 4.
Read the whole comment“Thus to the Corinthians he writes, For though He was crucified through weakness, yet He liveth through the power of God, attributing His death to human infirmity, but His life to divine power: and again to the Romans, For the death, that He died unto sin, He died once: but the life, that He liveth, He liveth unto God.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xiii. 4.
Read the whole comment“So the Apostle moulding our ignorant and haphazard ideas into conformity with truth says of this mystery of the faith, For He was crucified through weakness but He liveth through the power of God.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xiii. 4.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
““He was crucified,” as the blessed Paul says “through weakness.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xiii. 4
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Leo the Great
“…Him both impassible in Godhead and passible in flesh, as says the Apostle, “although He was crucified through (our) weakness, yet He lives by the power of God.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xiii. 4.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“And these two matters do not divide the Substance, as I understand it, but rather are divisions within the Substance.” — editor's note: Job xxxviii. 4, Ps. v. 10, xxxvi., cxxxix. 7–15, cxlii., Isa. xi. 1–3, xlviii. 16, Mal. iii. 6, Wisd. i. 2, John i. 14, iii. 24, xv. 26, xvi. 14, 15, Acts…
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Cross-references · 47
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Cited together in Bede on Luke 19:1–10 (5) (Catena Aurea).
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Cited together in Bede on Luke 19:1–10 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Against Eunomius V.2 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Heresies Fragments from.52.
Cited together in Against Heresies Fragments from.52.
Cited together in Against Heresies Fragments from.52.
Cited together in Catechism §648.
Cited together in Against Eunomius V.2 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Homilies on the Psalms Homily 2.
Cited together in Homilies on the Psalms Homily 2.
Cited together in Catechism §648.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.2.
Cited together in Bede on Luke 19:1–10 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Against Eunomius VI.1 and 1 other place.
Parallel passages
Romans 1:16 and 2 Corinthians 13:4 share the same wording (9 words).
Quotes
2 Corinthians 13:4 takes up the words of 2 Maccabees 3:24 (8 words in common).
2 Corinthians 13:4 takes up the words of 2 Maccabees 9:17 (8 words in common).
2 Corinthians 13:4 takes up the words of Wisdom 7:25 (8 words in common).