Galatians 6:17

Theodoret of Cyrus

• Theodoret of Cyrus, Ecclesiastical History I.7Book I

  “At this period many individuals were richly endowed with apostolical gifts; and many, like the holy apostle, bore in their bodies the marks of the Lord Jesus Christ.” — editor's note: Cf. Gal. vi. 17. The “stigmata” here meant are the marks of persecution.

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• Theodoret of Cyrus, Ecclesiastical History V.9Book V

  “Others, worn away with various cruelties, still bear in their bodies the scars of their wounds and the marks of Christ.” — editor's note: Gal. vi. 17

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Cyprian of Carthage

• Cyprian of Carthage, Epistles Letter 33

  “In his glorious body shine the bright evidences of his wounds; their manifest traces show forth, and appear on the man’s sinews and limbs, worn out with tedious wasting away.” — editor's note: [Gal. vi. 17. St. Paul esteemed such stigmata a better ground of glorying in the flesh than his circumcision.]

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John Chrysostom

• John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew Homily 16

  “But virtue, even after his labor, he affirms to be light, callingthe laboriousness of our affliction momentary and “light,” and rejoicing in his sufferings, and glorying in his tribulations, and taking a pride in the marks wherewith he had been branded for Christ’s sake.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 17, xii. 10; Rom. v. 3; Gal. vi. 17; Col. i. 24.

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Athanasius of Alexandria

• Athanasius of Alexandria, On the Incarnation of the Word §9

  “For since from man it was that death prevailed over men, for this cause conversely, by the Word of God being made man has come about the destruction of death and the resurrection of life; as the man which bore Christ saith: “For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.” — editor's note: Cf. Gal. vi. 17

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Tertullian

• Tertullian, On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 10

  “However, let me meanwhile add that in the same passage Paul “carries about in his body the marks of the Lord Jesus;” he also forbids our body to be profaned, as being “the temple of God;” he makes our bodies “the members of Christ;” and he exhorts us to exalt and “glorify God in our body.”” — editor's note: Gal. vi. 17.

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• Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion V.3Book V

  “He calls them “persecutors of Christ.”” — editor's note: See Gal. vi. 17, κόπους μοι μηδεὶς παρεχέτω, “let no one harass me.”

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• 1 Timothy 6:15

  Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §9.

• Hebrews 2:9

  Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §9.

• Hebrews 2:14

  Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §9.

• Genesis 6:3

  Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 10.

• Isaiah 40:5

  Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 10.

• Isaiah 40:7

  Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 10.

• Joel 3:1

  Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 10.

• Acts 11:26

  Cited together in Ecclesiastical History V.9.

• Romans 8:8

  Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 10.

• Romans 8:18

  Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 10.

• 1 Corinthians 1:12

  Cited together in Ecclesiastical History V.9.

• 1 Corinthians 4:8

  Cited together in Ecclesiastical History V.9.

• 1 Corinthians 15:21

  Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §9.

• 2 Corinthians 5:14

  Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §9.

• Galatians 5:17

  Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 10.