2 Corinthians 4:16 (WEB)
Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward person is decaying, yet our inward person is renewed day by day.
Fathers and councils · 21
Jerome
“And “Though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 16.
Read the whole comment“…and patience experience, and experience hope: and hope maketh not ashamed” and “though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day”: and “our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh in us an eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 16.
Read the whole comment“But so also are the angels, the powers, and the virtues, as well as the inward man who is created in the image and after the likeness of God.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 16; Gen. i. 27.
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Augustine of Hippo
“But now, we as yet drag on that which we were born corruptible: although, according to that which we are new-born, if we walk aright, from day to day we are renewed inwardly.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 16
Read the whole comment“If He acknowledges not the King’s daughter, unto Whom she was bidden to say, “Our Father Who art in Heaven;” and in her saints in the inner man she is not renewed from day to day, concerning whom it was said, “All the glory of that King’s daughter is within:” although…” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 9; 2 Cor. iv. 16
Read the whole comment““Though our outward man is perishing, yet is our inward man being renewed day by day.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 16.
Read the whole comment““Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 16.
Read the whole comment“And they do not understand that it is in reference to concupiscence of carnal sex that this is said, because in the inner man, wherein we are renewed in newness of our mind, no sex of this kind exists.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 16
Read the whole comment“For the soul is raised up again by repentance, and the renewing of life is begun in the body still mortal by faith, by which men believe on Him who justifies the ungodly; and it is increased and strengthened by good habits from day to day, as the inner man is renewed more and more.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 16
Read the whole comment“For the opinion of the apostle is evident, which declares the inner man to be renewed in the knowledge of God after the image of Him that created him: whereas he says also in another place, “But though our outer man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 16
Read the whole comment“And the apostle has spoken of this most expressly, saying, “And though our outward man perish, yet the inner man is renewed day by day.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 16
Read the whole comment“Wherefore it has been so arranged by the dispensation of the Divine goodness, that to “the inner man who is renewed from day to day,” placed no longer under the Law but under Grace, and freed from the burdens of numberless observances which were indeed a heavy yoke, but meetly imposed on a…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 16.
Read the whole comment“On the contrary, it so thoroughly adopts it, that even while a man is alive, and body and soul are united, it calls each of them singly by the name “man,” speaking of the soul as the “inward man,” and of the body as the “outward man,” as if there were two men, though both together are indeed but one.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 16.
Read the whole comment“Whence, too, the apostle, speaking of this corruptible body, of which he had shortly before said, “though our outward man perish,” says, “We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 16.
Read the whole comment“But this it concerns us to remember, that our outward man, to wit the body, is still decaying; but the inward, that is, the soul, is being renewed day by day.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 16.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
““God and man are two natures, as soul and body are two; but there are not two sons, nor yet are there here two men although Paul thus speaks of the outward man and the inward man.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 16
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John Chrysostom
“If thou wilt, let him also torture his body, and cast him into prison, what this to him that hath learnt, “Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed;”and that “tribulation worketh approval?”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 16. [R.V., “our outward man is decaying.”]
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Tertullian
“For although it is called “a vessel” by the apostle, such as he enjoins to be treated “with honour,” it is yet designated by the same apostle as “the outward man,”—that clay, of course, which at the first was inscribed with the title of a man, not of a cup or a sword, or any paltry vessel.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 16.
Read the whole comment“…flesh or outward man, because it is written (in the Epistle) to the Corinthians: “Though our outward man decayeth, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 16.
Read the whole comment“Then how is it, that in the words which follow he exhorts us not to the things which are seen and are temporal, but to those which are not seen and are eternal—in other words, not to the present, but to the future?” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 16–18.
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Gregory of Nyssa
- Gregory of Nyssa, On Virginity On Virginity.19On Virginity
“There is also a particular teaching of the Apostle, which harmonizes with this; viz. each man of us is a double man; one the outwardly visible, whose natural fate it is to decay; the other perceptible only in the secret of the heart, yet capable of renovation.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 16.
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Cross-references · 19
Cited together in The City of God XIV.3.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.3.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.3.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.3.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 40.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 20.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 40.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 40.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XI.1 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.19.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.19.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.3.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.19.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 20.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.19.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.19.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 40 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.19.
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 40 and 1 other place.