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2 Corinthians 4:2

2 Corinthians 4:2 (WEB)

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

Catechism · 1

  • §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:

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Tertullian

  • “…“Wherefore, having this ministration, in accordance with (the fact) that we have obtained mercy, we faint not; but renounce the secret things of disgrace,” who has just released from condemnation one manifestly convicted of, not “disgrace” merely, but crime too: whether it be province, again, to excuse a…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 1, 2.

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Gregory of Nyssa

  • “…divest ourselves of those coverings of our nakedness, the coats of skins, namely the wisdom of the flesh; we must renounce all shameful things done in secret, and be covered no longer with the fig-leaves of this bitter world; then, when we have torn off the coatings of this life’s perishable leaves, we must stand…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 2.

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Augustine of Hippo

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