Galatians 1:10 (WEB)
For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.
Fathers and councils · 19
Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
“For the Apostle who declared, “If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ;” [Gal 1:10] says in another place, “I please all men in all things. [1 Cor 10:33] This he did not that he might please men, but God, to the love of whom he desires to turn the hearts of men by pleasing them.” — the author cites it
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Nor ought the reproaches of the lost to move us in any degree to depart from the right path and from the sure rule, since also the apostle instructs us, saying, “If I should please men, I should not be the servant of Christ.”” — editor's note: Gal. i. 10.
Read the whole comment“But if some of the perverse persons refuse to obey, let us follow the same apostle, who says, “If I please men, I should not be the servant of Christ.”” — editor's note: Gal. i. 10.
Read the whole comment“And the apostle also speaks, saying, “If I pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.”” — editor's note: Gal. i. 10.
Read the whole comment“Not considering that it is declared, “They who please men are put to confusion, because God hath despised them;” and that Paul also has gloriously and sublimely uttered, “If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.”” — editor's note: Gal. i. 10.
Read the whole comment“Also in the Epistle of Paul to the Galatians: “If I wished to please men, I should not be the servant of Christ.”” — editor's note: Gal. i. 10.
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Gregory the Great
“I know that you read studiously the teacher of the Gentiles, who says, I, if I yet pleased men, should not be the servant of Christ (Gal. i. 10).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“And yet he says again, If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ (Gal. i. 10).” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“Let us rather say: “Thou art my glorying,” and “He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord,” and “If I yet pleased men I should not be the servant of Christ,” and “Far be it from me to glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world hath been crucified unto me and I unto the world;” and once…” — editor's note: Gal. i. 10.
Read the whole comment“And if, by taking this course, you displease some, repeat to yourself the words of the Apostle: “If I yet pleased men I should not be the servant of Christ”” — editor's note: Gal. i. 10.
Read the whole comment““If I yet pleased men,” says the apostle, “I should not be the servant of Christ.”” — editor's note: Gal. i. 10.
Read the whole comment“It is a monk’s first virtue to despise the judgments of men and always to remember the apostle’s words:—“If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.”” — editor's note: Gal. i. 10.
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Tertullian
““If,” says he, “I wished to please men, I should not be Christ’s servant.”” — editor's note: St. Paul. Gal. i. 10.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…to me it is the least thing, that I be judged of you, or of day of man;” and in another place, “If I were pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ;” and again, “For our glory is this, the testimony of our conscience.”” — editor's note: Gal. i. 10
Read the whole comment“Against such parties it is said, “If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ;” and, by the prophet, “They who please men are put to shame, because God hath despised them;” and again, “God hath broken the bones of those who please men;” and…” — editor's note: Gal. i. 10.
Read the whole comment“For the apostle also says, “If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ;” while he says in another place, “Please all men in all things, even as I also please all men in all things.”” — editor's note: Gal. i. 10.
Read the whole comment“And that, than which nothing is plainer, “If,” saith he, “I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.”” — editor's note: Gal. i. 10.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“If I yet pleased men, says Paul, I should not be the servant of Christ.” — editor's note: Galat. i. 10.
Read the whole comment“If I yet pleased men I should not be the servant of Christ, says the Apostle; and if I yet worshipped a creature, or were baptized into a creature, I should not be made divine, nor have changed my first birth.” — editor's note: Galat. i. 10.
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Cross-references · 40
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Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 4.
Cited together in On the Good of Widowhood Chapter 27.
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Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.1.
Cited together in Letters Letter 31.
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Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 14.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 61.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule II.8.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 14.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.1.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.56 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 61.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 61.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 14.
Cited together in Letters Letter 31.
Cited together in Letters Letter 31.
Cited together in Letters Letter 31.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 61.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 61.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule II.8.
Cited together in Letters Letter 31.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule II.8.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 14.
Cited together in Letters Letter 31.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.1 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 6:1 (2) (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.7.
Cited together in On the Good of Widowhood Chapter 27.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 14.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 14.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 14 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 6:1 (2) (Catena Aurea) and 2 other places.
Cited together in On the Good of Widowhood Chapter 27 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Good of Widowhood Chapter 27.
Cited together in On the Good of Widowhood Chapter 27 and 1 other place.