Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

2 Corinthians 8:18

There are 6 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1, page 56, footnote 5 (Image)

Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus

Ignatius (HTML)

Epistle to the Ephesians: Shorter and Longer Versions (HTML)

Chapter XV.—Exhortation to confess Christ by silence as well as speech. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 594 (In-Text, Margin)

... Christian], than to talk and not to be one. “The kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.” Men “believe with the heart, and confess with the mouth,” the one “unto righteousness,” the other “unto salvation.” It is good to teach, if he who speaks also acts. For he who shall both “do and teach, the same shall be great in the kingdom.” Our Lord and God, Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, first did and then taught, as Luke testifies, “whose praise is in the Gospel through all the Churches.”[2 Corinthians 8:18] There is nothing which is hid from the Lord, but our very secrets are near to Him. Let us therefore do all things as those who have Him dwelling in us, that we may be His temples, and He may be in us as God. Let Christ speak in us, even as He did in ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 3, page 513, footnote 1 (Image)

Augustine: On the Holy Trinity, Doctrinal Treatises, Moral Treatises

Moral Treatises of St. Augustin (HTML)

Of the Work of Monks. (HTML)

Section 17 (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 2535 (In-Text, Margin)

... accord he went forth unto you. And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the Gospel throughout all the Churches; and not that only, but he was also ordained of the Churches as a companion of our travail, with this grace which is administered by us to the glory of the Lord, and our ready mind: avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us. For we provide for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.”[2 Corinthians 8:1-21] In these words appeareth how much the Apostle willed it not only to be the care of the holy congregations to minister necessaries to the holy servants of God, giving counsel in this, because this was profitable more to the persons themselves who did ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 11, page 3, footnote 3 (Image)

Chrysostom: Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistle to the Romans

A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles (HTML)

Homily I on Acts i. 1, 2. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 9 (In-Text, Margin)

... Now that Luke was a partaker of the Spirit, is abundantly clear, both from the miracles which even now take place; and from the fact that in those times even ordinary persons were gifted with the Holy Ghost; and again from the testimony of Paul, in these words, “Whose praise is in the Gospel” (2 Cor. viii. 18); and from the appointment to which he was chosen: for having said this, the Apostle adds, “But also appointed of the Churches to travel with us with this grace which is administered by us.”[2 Corinthians 8:18]

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 1, page 137, footnote 1 (Image)

Eusebius: Church History from A.D. 1-324, Life of Constantine the Great, Oration in Praise of Constantine

The Church History of Eusebius. (HTML)

Book III (HTML)

The First Successors of the Apostles. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 615 (In-Text, Margin)

8. And they say that Paul meant to refer to Luke’s Gospel wherever, as if speaking of some gospel of his own, he used the words, “according to my Gospel.”[2 Corinthians 8:18]

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 1, page 273, footnote 6 (Image)

Eusebius: Church History from A.D. 1-324, Life of Constantine the Great, Oration in Praise of Constantine

The Church History of Eusebius. (HTML)

Book VI (HTML)

His Review of the Canonical Scriptures. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 1981 (In-Text, Margin)

6. And the third by Luke, the Gospel commended by Paul,[2 Corinthians 8:18] and composed for Gentile converts. Last of all that by John.”

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 102, footnote 1 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

The Letters of St. Jerome. (HTML)

To Paulinus. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1528 (In-Text, Margin)

... The apostle Paul writes to seven churches (for the eighth epistle—that to the Hebrews—is not generally counted in with the others). He instructs Timothy and Titus; he intercedes with Philemon for his runaway slave. Of him I think it better to say nothing than to write inadequately. The Acts of the Apostles seem to relate a mere unvarnished narrative descrip tive of the infancy of the newly born church; but when once we realize that their author is Luke the physician whose praise is in the gospel,[2 Corinthians 8:18] we shall see that all his words are medicine for the sick soul. The apostles James, Peter, John, and Jude, have published seven epistles at once spiritual and to the point, short and long, short that is in words but lengthy in substance so that ...

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