2 Corinthians 3:18

• §74Article 2 · The Transmission of Divine RevelationRead at vatican.va

  God "desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth": that is, of Christ Jesus. Christ must be proclaimed to all nations and individuals, so that this revelation may reach to the ends of the earth:

Cyril of Jerusalem

• Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures Lecture 22

  “And ye were first anointed on the forehead, that ye might be delivered from the shame, which the first man who transgressed bore about with him everywhere; and that with unveiled face ye might reflect as a mirror the glory of the Lord.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iii. 18.

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• Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures Lecture 23

  “And so having it unveiled with a pure conscience, mayest thou reflect as a mirror the glory of the Lord, and proceed from glory to glory, in Christ Jesus our Lord:—To whom be honour, and might, and glory, for ever and ever.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iii. 18.

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Eusebius of Caesarea

• Eusebius of Caesarea, Church History VII.32Book VII

  “But I refrain from demanding this sort of demonstration for matters from which the veil of the Mosaic law has been removed, so that now at length with uncovered face we continually behold as in a glass Christ and the teachings and sufferings of Christ.” — editor's note: Cf. 2 Cor. iii. 18.

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Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 2

  “But if Sion signify, as some interpret, beholding, we must not understand it of anything rather than of the Church, where daily is the desire raised of beholding the bright glory of God, according to that of the Apostle, “but we with open face beholding the glory of the Lord.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iii. 18.

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• Augustine of Hippo, On the Holy Trinity XIV.17Book XIV

  “And again: “But we with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as by the spirit of the Lord.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iii. 18

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• Augustine of Hippo, On the Holy Trinity XV.8Book XV

  “And this is intimated also in the words of the same apostle: “But we with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iii. 18

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• Augustine of Hippo, On the Sermon on the Mount II.12Book II

  “For we, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iii. 18.

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• Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XXII.29Book XXII

  “And if the apostle had not referred to the face of the inner man, he would not have said, “But we, with unveiled face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image, from glory to glory, as by the spirit of the Lord.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iii. 18.

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John Chrysostom

• John Chrysostom, Homilies on Hebrews Homily 32

  “This he says also in the Epistle to the Corinthians: “with unveiled countenance” ( 2 Cor. iii. 18 ), and, “not as Moses put a veil over his face.” ( 2 Cor. iii. 13.)” — the author cites it

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• John Chrysostom, Homilies on John Homily 81

  “This certainly it is which causes them to be glorified; as Paul saith, “With open face mirroring the glory of the Lord.” ( 2 Cor. iii. 18.)” — the author cites it

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Jerome

• Jerome, Letters Letter 38

  “Now she boldly says: “We all with unveiled face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as by the spirit of the Lord.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iii. 18, R.V.

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• Jerome, Letters Letter 51

  “For this refers to the glory which is then to be revealed to His saints; just as also in another place we read the words “from glory to glory,” of which glory the saints have even in this world received an earnest and a small portion.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iii. 18.

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• Jerome, To Pammachius against John of Jerusalem

  “Let us contemplate withunveiled face the glory of the Lord.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iii. 18.

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Basil the Great

• Basil the Great, Letters Letter 8

  “Only the Father, He says, knows, since He is Himself the end and the ultimate blessedness, for when we no longer know God in mirrors and not immediately, but approach Him as one and alone, then we shall know even the ultimate end.” — editor's note: διὰ τῶν ἀλλοτρίων. cf. 1 Cor. xiii. 12, where St. Paul’s word is ἔσοπτρον. St. Basil’s κάτοπτρον may rather be suggested by 2 Cor. iii. 18, where the original…

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• Basil the Great, On the Holy Spirit Chapter 20

  ““The Lord,” it is said, “is that Spirit;” and again “even as from the Lord the Spirit.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iii. 17, 18, R.V. In Adv. Eunom. iii. 3 St. Basil had quoted v. 17 of the Son, making πνεῦμα descriptive of our Lord. “This was written,” adds Mr.…

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Ambrose of Milan

• Ambrose of Milan, On the Holy Spirit III.14Book III

  “So we all with unveiled face, reflecting the glory of the Lord, are formed anew into the same image from glory to glory, as from the Lord the Spirit;” that is, we who have been before converted to the Lord, so as by spiritual understanding to see the glory of the Lord, as it were, in the mirror of the…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iii. 17, 18.

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Gregory of Nazianzus

• Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations Oration 32

  “…that which was within the reach of their powers; but that by gradual additions, and, as David says, Goings up, and advances and progress from glory to glory, the Light of the Trinity might shine upon the more illuminated.” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxiv. 7, and 2 Cor. iii. 18.

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Catena Aurea on John

• OrigenCatena Aurea on John

  “And of this glory He hath made all who know Him partakers: as saith the Apostle; We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image, from glory to glory, (2 Cor. 3:18) i. e. from His glory receive glory.” — the author cites it

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Tertullian

• Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion V.10Book V

  “So he says that “we now with open face” (meaning the candour of the heart, which in the Jews had been covered with a veil), “beholding Christ, are changed into the same image, from that glory” (wherewith Moses was transfigured as by the glory of the Lord) “to another glory.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iii. 18.

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• 2 Corinthians 4:1

  Cited together in Catechism §74.

• 2 Corinthians 4:2

  Cited together in Catechism §74.

• 2 Corinthians 4:3

  Cited together in Catechism §74.

• 2 Corinthians 4:4

  Cited together in Catechism §74.

• 2 Corinthians 4:5

  Cited together in Catechism §74.

• 2 Corinthians 4:6

  Cited together in Catechism §74.

• Ephesians 5:30

  Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.12.

• Ephesians 5:33

  Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.12.

• 1 Thessalonians 3:12

  Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.14 and 1 other place.

• 1 Thessalonians 3:13

  Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.14 and 1 other place.

• 2 Thessalonians 3:5

  Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.14 and 1 other place.

• 1 Timothy 2:4

  Cited together in Catechism §74.

• Jude 1:14

  Cited together in Church History VII.32.

• Exodus 40:34

  Cited together in Origen on John 13:31–32 (2) (Catena Aurea).

• John 13:31

  Cited together in Origen on John 13:31–32 (2) (Catena Aurea).

• John 13:32

  Cited together in Origen on John 13:31–32 (2) (Catena Aurea).

• John 14:6

  Cited together in Catechism §74.

• 1 Corinthians 13:12

  Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XIV.17 and 1 other place.

• 2 Corinthians 1:20

  Cited together in Catechism §74.