2 Corinthians 2:16 (WEB)
to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
Fathers and councils · 16
Irenaeus of Lyons
“For the apostle does also say in the Second [Epistle] to the Corinthians: “For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them which are saved, and in them which perish: to the one indeed the savour of death unto death, but to the other the savour of life unto life.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. ii. 15, 16.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Or, truly, because we read, “We are a sweet savor of Christ in every place, both in them which are saved and in them which perish;” to the one, indeed, a savor of life unto life, to others a savor of death unto death; shall we pronounce even the savor of Christ to be a murderer?” — editor's note: 2 Cor. ii. 15, 16. [See R.V.]
Read the whole comment““And who is sufficient for these things?”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. ii. 16.
Read the whole comment“For that is not false that the Apostle says, “To the one we are the savour of life unto life, to the other the savour of death unto death; and who is sufficient for these things?”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. ii. 16.
Read the whole comment““To some,” saith the Apostle, “we are the savour of life unto life; to some the savour of death unto death.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. ii. 16.
Read the whole comment“And “He scattered them,” to whom they were sent, that to some of them they should be “the savour of life unto life, to others the savour of death unto death.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. ii. 16.
Read the whole comment““And for these things who is sufficient?”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. ii. 16.
Read the whole comment“And who is capable of comprehending these things?” — editor's note: 2 Cor. ii. 16.
Read the whole comment“And again he says: “To the one indeed we are the savour of life unto life; to the other, the savour of death unto death;” and adds immediately, “And who is sufficient for these things?”—that is to say, who is sufficient to comprehend how righteously that is done?” — editor's note: 2 Cor. ii. 16.
Read the whole comment“…drink in that apostolic sentence: “To some we are a savor of life unto life, to others a savor of death unto death; and who is sufficient for these things?”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. ii. 16
Read the whole comment“To the one we are the savor of life unto life, to the other the savor of death unto death: and who is sufficient for these things?”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. ii. 14–16.
Read the whole comment“His advent has become as much fraught with destruction to unbelievers, as it is with salvation to those that believe; for He, the Head and Prince of the apostles, has Himself, as it were, become what they declared of themselves, “to some, indeed, the savour of life unto life; and to some the savor of death unto death.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. ii. 16.
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Jerome
“The Apostle Paul, rapidly recounting the benefits of God, ended with the words,“And who is sufficient for these things?”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. ii. 16.
Read the whole comment“(11) What is the meaning of 2 Cor. ii. 16?” — the author cites it
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“For we are not as the many, able to corrupt the word of truth, and mix the wine, which maketh glad the heart of man, with water, mix, that is, our doctrine with what is common and cheap, and debased, and…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. ii. 16, 17.
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Clement of Alexandria
“For we are to God a sweet savour of the Lord, in them that are saved, and them that are lost; to one a savour of death unto death, to the other a savour of life unto life.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. ii. 14–16.
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Cross-references · 14
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.28.
Cited together in Confessions III.2.
Cited together in Confessions III.2.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.28.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.28.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.28.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.28.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.28.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.28.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.28.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 89.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 89.
Cited together in On Lying Chapter 42.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.28.