Galatians 5:15 (WEB)
But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.
Fathers and councils · 11
Athanasius of Alexandria
“If then they agree with Asterius, let them never ask again, ‘Is the Unoriginate one or two,’ or they will have to contest the point with him; if, on the other hand, they differ even from him, let them not rely upon his treatise, lest, ‘biting one another, they be consumed one of another.’” — editor's note: Gal. v. 15.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“From abuse and revilings also I entreat you to abstain, for “revilers do not attain the kingdom of God;” and the tongue which has confessed Christ should be preserved sound and pure with its honour.” — editor's note: Gal. v. 15. [See note 9, infra.]
Read the whole comment“But if ye bite and accuse one another, see that ye be not consumed one of another.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 14, 15.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Of which teeth the Apostle speaks, “If ye bite one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 15.
Read the whole comment“Just as hath been said, by way of prohibition indeed, but yet the idea expressed: “but if ye bite and eat up one another, take heed that ye be not consumed of one another.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 15.
Read the whole comment“Whence the Apostle saith, “But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed of one another.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 15.
Read the whole comment“But I say, Walk in the Spirit.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 15, 16.
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John Chrysostom
“Gal. v. 15.)” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“I am sending the same message to the rest of my friends; lest, as the apostle says, ye bite and devour one another, ye be consumed one of another.” — editor's note: Gal. v. 15.
Read the whole comment“And may Christ who is Almighty God grant to your prayers that I and my opponent may be united not in a feigned and hollow peace but in true and sincere mutual esteem, lest biting and devouring one another we be consumed one of another.” — editor's note: Gal. v. 15.
Read the whole comment“For on one side is the Charybdis of covetousness, “the root of all evil;” and on the other lurks the Scylla of detraction girt with the railing hounds of which the apostle says: “if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 15.
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Cross-references · 5
Cited together in Against the Arians I.8.
Cited together in Against the Arians I.8.
Cited together in Against the Arians I.8.
Cited together in Against the Arians I.8.
Cited together in Against the Arians I.8.