Catena Fidei

2 Corinthians 6:15 (WEB)
What agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what portion does a believer have with an unbeliever?

Fathers and councils · 15

Gregory of Nyssa, Against Eunomius II.6Book II
“For if he uses such expressions with reference to vain idols and to the erroneous conceptions of those who worship them (even as Paul assures us that there is no agreement between Christ and Belial, and no fellowship between the temple of God and idols) we agree with him.” — editor's note: Cf. 2 Cor. vi. 15, 16.
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Jerome, Against Jovinianus Book 2
“Yea, they who abide in that birth cannot sin.“For what communion hath light with darkness?” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14, 15.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 22
“And what concord hath Christ with Belial?”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14, 15.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 55
“…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.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 123
“…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.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 71
“Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14, 15.
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Jerome, The Dialogue Against the Luciferians
“And that too“What communion hath light and darkness?” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14, 15.
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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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Athanasius of Alexandria, Defence Against the Arians I.3Part I
“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.
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Theodoret of Cyrus, Ecclesiastical History I.4Book I
“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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John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew Homily 31
“But thou, as though laboring to add to the charge against thee, dost also bring us in heathen women singing dirges, to kindle thy feelings, and to stir up the furnace thoroughly: and thou hearkenest not to Paul, saying, “What concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 15. [R.V., “unbeliever.”]
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Ambrose of Milan, Letters Letter 7
“That is, there is no union between peace and madness, there is no union between Christ and Belial.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 15.
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Tertullian, On the Apparel of Women I.1Book I
“The same, I take it, as Christ has with Belial.” — editor's note: Comp. 2 Cor. vi. 14–16.
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Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies Book 3
““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.
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Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.9Book V
““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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