2 Corinthians 4:10 (WEB)
always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
Fathers and councils · 8
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VII.38Book VII
“…of “the language of the flesh,” having learnt as he has “to mortify the deeds of the body” by the spirit, and “to bear about in his body the dying of Jesus;” and “mortify your members which are on the earth,” and with a true knowledge of these words, “My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 10.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“For if we who live are delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, it is that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our mortal flesh.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 10, etc.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“The blessed Paul wrote to the Corinthians that he always bore in his body the dying of Jesus, not as though he alone should make that boast, but also they and we too, and in this let us be followers of him, my brethren.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 10.
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Basil the Great
“I called these men’s lives blessed, in that they did in deed shew that they “bear about in their body the dying of Jesus.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 10.
Read the whole comment“What dying of sins is there?” — editor's note: νέκρωσις. A.V. in 2 Cor. iv. 10, “dying,” Rom. iv. 19, “deadness.”
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Tertullian
“When also he adds, “Always bearing about in our body the dying of the Lord Jesus Christ,” what sort of substance is that which, after (being called) the temple of God, can now be also designated the tomb of Christ?” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 10.
Read the whole comment“Well, then, if it be in these very earthen vessels that he tells us we have to endure so great sufferings, in which we bear about with us the very dying of God, (Marcion’s) god is really ungrateful and unjust, if he does not mean to restore this same substance of…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 8–12.
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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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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in Against Heresies V.13.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.13.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 44.
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.13.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.13.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.13.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.13.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.13.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.13.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.13.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.13.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.13.