Colossians 4:6 (WEB)
Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
Fathers and councils · 8
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus III.33Book III
“…agreeably to the injunctions of Jesus, who said, “Search the Scriptures,” and to the wish of Paul, who taught that “we ought to know how to answer every man;” nay, also of him who said, “Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh of you a reason of the faith that is in you.”” — editor's note: Cf. Col. iv. 6.
Read the whole comment - Origen, Against Celsus VI.10Book VI
“Accordingly, we do not say to each of our hearers, “Believe, first of all, that He whom I introduce to thee is the Son of God;” but we put the Gospel before each one, as his character and disposition may fit him to receive it, inasmuch as we have learned to know “how we ought to answer every man.”” — editor's note: Cf. Col. iv. 6.
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Gregory the Great
“What is denoted by salt but wisdom, as Paul attests, who says, Let your speech be alway in grace, seasoned with salt (Col. iv. 6)?” — the author cites it
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“For thus your speech shall be ‘with grace, seasoned with salt,’ while they [will be judged] by the conscience of all.…” — editor's note: Col. iv. 6.
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John Chrysostom
“For this, Paul likewise commanded “to know how we ought to answer every man.”” — editor's note: Col. iv. 6.
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Jerome
“Wherefore also the apostle has given commandment: “let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt.”” — editor's note: Col. iv. 6.
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Catena Aurea on Mark
- Pseudo-ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Mark
“Wherefore also the Apostle joins together grace and salt, saying, “Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt.: [Col 4:6]” — the author cites it
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Clement of Alexandria
“In addition, it will in my opinion form an appropriate sequel to defend those tenets, on account of which the Greeks assail us, making use of a few Scriptures, if perchance the Jew also may listen and be able quietly to turn from what he has believed to Him on whom he has not believed.” — editor's note: [Col. iv. 6.]
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in Against Celsus III.33.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.20.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.20.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.1.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.20.
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Mark 9:43–50 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Mark 9:43–50 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Mark 9:43–50 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Mark 9:43–50 (4) (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.20.
Cited together in Against Celsus III.33.
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.10.