2 Corinthians 6:14 (WEB)
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
Fathers and councils · 31
Jerome
“To these he elsewhere says, “Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14 sq.
Read the whole comment“Yea, they who abide in that birth cannot sin.“For what communion hath light with darkness?” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14, 15.
Read the whole comment“Light, I know, has no communion with darkness, and God’s handmaidens no fellowship with a sinner, yet a harlot was allowed to wash the Lord’s feet with her tears, and dogs are permitted to eat of their masters’ crumbs.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14.
Read the whole comment“And what concord hath Christ with Belial?”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14, 15.
Read the whole comment“…of the Lord’s table and of the table of devils,” and in another place: “what communion hath light with darkness? and what concord hath Christ with Belial?”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14, 15.
Read the whole comment“Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14, 15.
Read the whole comment“…darkness? and what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14–16.
Read the whole comment“And that too“What communion hath light and darkness?” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14, 15.
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John Damascene
“…and obliterated the marks of the divine image, and had become evil, we were stripped of our communion with God (for what communion hath light with darkness?): and having been shut out from life we became subject to the corruption of death: yea, since He gave us to share in the better part, and we did not keep it…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“Together they cannot be; for what fellowship hath light with darkness? saith the Apostle.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14. Cyril’s description applies especially to the heresy of Manes. See § 36, note 3, at the end of this Lecture; also Cat. xi. 21. and Cat. xv. 3.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X V.23Conference V
“Or what fellowship hath light with darkness?”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14.
Read the whole comment - John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XIV.14Conference XIV
““For what share hath righteousness with iniquity? or what agreement hath light with darkness? or what concord has Christ with Belial?”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14, 15.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
“(2 Cor. 6:14.)” — the author cites it
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“Charge your people that no one hold communion with them, for there is no communion of light with darkness; put away from you all these, for there is no concord of Christ in Belial.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14, 15.
Read the whole comment“So exclaims Paul, a minister of the Gospel.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14.
Read the whole comment“For there is no communion between light and darkness.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“Does not the Apostle say, ‘What communion hath light with darkness? and what concord hath Christ with Belial?’ and Solomon, that ‘the way of a serpent upon a rock ’ was ‘too wonderful’ for the human mind to comprehend, which ‘rock,’ according to St. Paul, is Christ.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14, 15
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Cyprian of Carthage
“And when they say that there can be no fellowship between righteousness and unrighteousness, no communion between light and darkness, how can either darkness illuminate, or unrighteousness justify?” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14.
Read the whole comment“For what participation is there between righteousness and unrighteousness? or what communication hath light with darkness?”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14.
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Augustine of Hippo
“But Egypt, since it is said to mean affliction, or one who afflicteth, or one who oppresseth, is often used for an emblem of this world; from which we must spiritually withdraw, that we may not be bearing the yoke with unbelievers.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14.
Read the whole comment“Thou hast also the Apostle Paul saying, “Or what fellowship hath light with darkness?”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14.
Read the whole comment“Hear the Apostle: “Be ye enlarged, bear not the yoke with unbelievers.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 13, 14.
Read the whole comment“And who are they who do not worship the beast and his image, if not those who do what the apostle says, “Be not yoked with unbelievers?”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14.
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Tertullian
“But, for these purposes, “There is nought of communion between light and darkness,” between life and death or else we rescind what is written, “The world shall rejoice, but ye shall grieve.”” — editor's note: See 2 Cor. vi. 14. In the De Spect. xxvi. Tertullian has the same quotation (Oehler). And there, too, he adds, as here, “between life and death.”
Read the whole comment“The same, I take it, as Christ has with Belial.” — editor's note: Comp. 2 Cor. vi. 14–16.
Read the whole comment“How, moreover, when he confounds the truth of the spirit with the error of the flesh, could he combine within himself that communion of light and darkness, or truth and error, which the apostle says cannot co-exist?” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14.
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Ambrose of Milan
“For he could say again: “O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14.
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Gregory of Nyssa
- Gregory of Nyssa, On Virginity On Virginity.15On Virginity
“The Apostle tells us there is “no communion of light with darkness,” or of righteousness with iniquity, or, in a word, of all the qualities which we perceive and name as the essence of God’s nature, with all the opposite which are perceived in evil.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Remigius of AuxerreCatena Aurea on Matthew
“Rightly do they say, “What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God?” that is, our malice and Thy grace have nothing in common, according to that the Apostle speaks, “There is no fellowship of light with darkness.” [2 Cor 6:14]” — the author cites it
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Clement of Alexandria
““Quæ est enim participatio justitiæ et injustitiæ? aut quæ luci cure tenebris societas? quæ est autem conventio Christo cum Belial? quæ pars est fideli cum infideli? quæ est autem consensio templo Dei cum idolis?” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14, 15, 16.
Read the whole comment““Or what communion hath light with darkness? or what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what portion hath the believer with the unbeliever?”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14, 15.
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