Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

2 Corinthians 10:10

There are 3 footnotes for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 2, page 579, footnote 3 (Image)

Augustine: The City of God, Christian Doctrine

Examples of True Eloquence Drawn from the Epistles of Paul and the Prophecies of Amos. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1946 (In-Text, Margin)

... its truth. If he had said, “I am indeed rude in speech, but not in knowledge,” we could not in any way have put another meaning upon it. He did not hesitate plainly to assert his knowledge, because without it he could not have been the teacher of the Gentiles. And certainly if we bring forward anything of his as a model of eloquence, we take it from those epistles which even his very detractors, who thought his bodily presence weak and his speech contemptible, confessed to be weighty and powerful.[2 Corinthians 10:10]

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 188, footnote 7 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

Expositions on the Book of Psalms. (HTML)

Psalm L (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1789 (In-Text, Margin)

... have given them to be nursed; but those that cherish, cherish not their own, but those of others: but he himself had borne, he was himself cherishing, to no nurse did commit what he had borne; for he had said, “Of whom I travail again until Christ be formed in you.” He did cherish them, and gave milk. But there were some as it were learned and spiritual men who detracted from Paul. “His letters indeed, say they, are weighty and powerful; but the presence of his body weak, and speech contemptible:”[2 Corinthians 10:10] he saith himself in his Epistle, that certain his detractors had said these words. They were sitting, and were detracting against their brother, and against that their mother’s son, to be fed with milk, they were laying a stumbling-block. “And ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 9, page 66, footnote 7 (Image)

Chrysostom: On the Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises, Select Homilies and Letters, Homilies on the Statutes

Treatise Concerning the Christian Priesthood. (HTML)

Book IV (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 163 (In-Text, Margin)

6.: “Why, then, was not St. Paul ambitious of becoming perfect in this art? He makes no secret of his poverty of speech, but distinctly confesses himself to be unskilled, even telling the Corinthians so,[2 Corinthians 10:10] who were admired for their eloquence, and prided themselves upon it.”