2 Corinthians 6:10 (WEB)
as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.
Fathers and councils · 21
Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
“That He says, “An hundred fold,” is explained by the Apostle, when he says, “As having nothing, and yet possessing all things.” [2 Cor 6:10] For a hundred is sometimes put for the whole universe.” — the author cites it
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X VI.9Conference VI
“…honour and dishonour, through evil report and good report, as deceivers and yet true, as sorrowful but always rejoicing, as needy and yet enriching many:” All those things then which are considered fortunate, and are called those “on the right hand,” which the holy Apostle designates by the terms honour and good…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 7–10.
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Augustine of Hippo
““Exult ye in the sight of Him,” O ye to whom hath been said, “Sing ye to God, psalm ye to the name of Him, a way make ye to Him that hath ascended above the setting,” also “exult in the sight of Him:” as if “sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 10.
Read the whole comment““As if having nothing, and possessing all things.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 10.
Read the whole comment“Whence the Apostle also saith, “As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing;” and again, “And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 10.
Read the whole comment“…lack any thing, supply it from the common store; saying with him whose precept and example he hath followed, “As having nothing, and possessing all things?”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 10
Read the whole comment“…we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things?”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 2–10
Read the whole comment“The Apostles are the rich of another world, who said, “As having nothing, and yet possessing all things.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 10.
Read the whole comment“…we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 7–10.
Read the whole comment“…receive in this world an hundredfold;” of which the apostle gives, as it were, an explanation when he says, “As having nothing, yet possessing all things,”—for even of old it had been said, The whole world is the wealth of a believer,—with how much greater reason is a thousand put for totality since it is the…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 10.
Read the whole comment“For the apostles were as if having nothing, and yet possessing all things.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 10.
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John Chrysostom
“And Paul in writing said, “As having nothing and yet possessing all things.” ( 2 Cor. vi. 10.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For, he says, [we are] “As deceivers, as dishonored, as having nothing.” ( 2 Cor. vi. 8, 10.)” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“The apostles likewise travelled throughout the world without either money in their purses, or staves in their hands, or shoes on their feet; and yet they could speak of themselves as “having nothing and yet possessing all things.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 10.
Read the whole comment“Let us always live “as having nothing and yet possessing all things.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 10.
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Ambrose of Milan
“They wandered over the whole earth, “having nothing and yet possessing all things.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 10.
Read the whole comment“He knew, also, how to abound, and was able to abound, for he had nothing and yet possessed all things.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 10.
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Basil the Great
“He ought to turn away from the brother who speaks evil against him; he ought not to indulge in jesting; he ought not to laugh nor even to suffer laugh makers.” — editor's note: This charge is probably founded on Luke vi. 21 and 25, and James iv. 9. Yet our Lord’s promise that they who hunger and weep “shall laugh,” admits of…
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“We have nothing fairer or more splendid to offer to you, for we have selected the greatest of all our possessions, that you may see that, strangers as we are, we are not in want, but though poor are making many rich.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 10.
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Aphrahat
“Though we have nothing, yet we possess all things.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 9, 10.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Our mouth is opened to you.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 4, 10, 11.
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Cross-references · 23
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 32.
Cited together in The City of God XX.7.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.17.
Cited together in The City of God XX.7.
Cited together in The City of God XX.7.
Cited together in The City of God XX.7.
Cited together in The City of God XX.7.
Cited together in The City of God XX.7.
Cited together in The City of God XX.7.
Cited together in The City of God XX.7.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.17.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.17.
Cited together in The City of God XX.7.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VI.9.
Cited together in The City of God XX.7.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VI.9.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VI.9.
Cited together in The City of God XI.18.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 32.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 19:27–30 (5) (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 19:27–30 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in The City of God XX.7.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.17.