2 Corinthians 3:1 (WEB)
Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?
Fathers and councils · 3
Council of Carthage (419)
“[The use of Letters Commendatory was very early in the Church; St. Paul mentions them II. Cor. iij.” — the author cites it
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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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Synod of Antioch (341)
““Commendatory letters” (ἐπιστολαὶ συστατικαὶ) are spoken of by St. Paul in 2 Cor. iii. 1, and the reader will find some interesting remarks on this and cognate subjects in J. J. Blunt’s, The Christian Church during the first three Centuries (Chapter II).” — the author cites it
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