Philippians 3:19 (WEB)
whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
Fathers and councils · 26
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.1Conference XXIII
“…wickedness and are afraid of being too slow to enjoy their lusts, and glory in their shame and the mass of their crimes, as the Apostle says in censure, and seek credit for themselves out of their own confusion, of whom also the prophet Jeremiah maintains that they commit their flagitious crimes not only not…” — editor's note: Cf. Phil. iii. 19.
Read the whole comment “…on the right hand; nor, swerving to the path of vices on the left hand, seek from them for yourself (to use the words of the Apostle) “glory in your shame.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 19.
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Augustine of Hippo
“But they who are delighted with them are fed by those fruits; nor are they delighted with them “whose god is their belly.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 19.
Read the whole comment“Those whose conversation is in heaven, as far as they abide here conversant, are in truth strangers.” — editor's note: Citizenship. Philip. iii. 19, 20.
Read the whole comment“His hope too is in the lord his god, who worshippeth Saturn; his hope is in the lord his god, who worshippeth Neptune or Mercury; yea more, I add, who worshippeth his belly, of whom is said, “whose god is their belly.”” — editor's note: Philip. iii. 19.
Read the whole comment“These will every wise man condemn, and holy Scripture especially, all gluttons, drunkards, gormandizers, “whose god is their belly.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 19.
Read the whole comment“…fire and sword, we do not understand the spiritual and holy to be included, but the earthly and carnal, of whom it is said that they “mind earthly things,” and “to be carnally minded is death,” and whom the Lord calls simply flesh when He says, “My Spirit shall not always remain in these men, for they are flesh.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 19.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“He calls the Galatians “foolish,” and of others he says “men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith,” and again of another set, “Whose God is their belly, whose glory is in their shame,” and so forth.” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 19
Read the whole comment“But in spite of our prayers, and against all our expectation, Seras, Stephanus, Heliodorus and Theophilus and their party have not voted with us, and have not even consented to subscribe the sentence delivered against him, although Seras charged the aforenamed Aetius with another…” — editor's note: Seras, or Serras, had been an Arian leader in Libya. In 356 Serras, together with Secundus, deposed bishop of Ptolemais, proposed to consecrate Aetius; he…
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John Chrysostom
“When thou art a citizen of Heaven, and hast the Philosophy that is above, dost thou disgrace thyself with him “that mindeth earthly things”? ( Philip. iii. 19.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“The rich man who is burning in the furnace; the Jews who live for the belly, “whose god is their belly” ( Phil. iii. 19 ), who were ever seeking ease in the wilderness, were destroyed; as also those in Sodom, on account of their gluttony; and those in the time of…” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment““Whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame” ( Philip. iii. 19 ), said Paul of certain persons, writing to the Philippians.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Yet they were at least ashamed when they were naked, but ye take a pride in it; “having,” according to that saying of the apostle, “your glory in your shame.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 19.
Read the whole comment“So also He calls “the belly a god,”not from the dignity of such a mistress, but from the wretchedness of them that are enslaved: it being a thing worse than any punishment, and enough, before the punishment, in the way of vengeance on him who is involved in it.” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 19.
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Jerome
“The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men’s only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.” — editor's note: Phi. iii. 19.
Read the whole comment“On one side self-indulgence presses me hard; on another covetousness strives to make an inroad; my belly wishes to be a God to me, in place of Christ, and lust would fain drive away the Holy Spirit that dwells in me and defile His temple.” — editor's note: Phi. iii. 19.
Read the whole comment“…for the belly and the belly for meats, but God shall destroy both it and them;” and why he speaks of the self-indulgent as men “whose God is their belly.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 19.
Read the whole comment“These wander from house to house and from one married lady to another, their god is their belly and their glory is in their shame, of the scriptures they know nothing except the texts which favour second marriages, but they love to quote the example of others to justify their own…” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 19.
Read the whole comment“You make your belly your God instead of Christ; you are a slave to lust; your glory is in your shame; you fatten yourself like a victim for the slaughter, and imitate the lives of the wicked, careless of their doom.” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 19.
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Tertullian
“…wives; which, with feigned affection, undergoes every toil of forced complaisance, with a view to ensnaring the childless; which makes the slaves of the belly submit to contumelious patronage, in the subjection of their liberty to their gullet.” — editor's note: i.e. professional “diners out.” Comp. Phil. iii. 19.
Read the whole comment“Sometimes it is that god—their belly—himself; because the brotherhood readily undertakes the maintenance of virgins.” — editor's note: Comp. Phil. iii. 19.
Read the whole comment“Not one of such women knows how to speak of the good of single-husbandhood; for their “god,” as the apostle says, “is their belly;” and so, too, what is neighbour to the belly.” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 19.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“Similarly, as a deterrent, the Apostle warns us of the end of the wicked, Whose end is perdition, . . . . . but our expectation is in heaven.” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 19, 20. The Greek paraphrased ‘expectation’ is , ‘citizenship’ (R.V.), or ‘commonwealth’ (marg.).
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Gregory the Great
“Let the former hear, Whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their own confusion (Philip. iii. 19).” — the author cites it
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Clement of Alexandria
“To them the apostle predicted no good when he said, “whose end is destruction.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 19.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“For our conversation is in heaven, whence also we expect the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall transform the body of our humiliation conformed to the body of His glory.”” — editor's note: Phil. ii. 21; iii. 19–21.
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Cross-references · 18
Cited together in Confessions XIII.26.
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Cited together in Confessions XIII.26.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.26.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.26.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.26.
Cited together in To His Wife I.8.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.1.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.26.
Cited together in The Institutes XI.4.
Cited together in To His Wife I.8.
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 14.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.26.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.26.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.26.