ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 10 v33

TRY TO PLEASE ALL. CHRYSOSTOM: Not only should the brethren receive no hurt from us, but neither should those who are outside the church. If we are light and leaven and luminaries and salt, we ought to enlighten, not to darken, to bind, not to loose, to draw unbelievers to us and not drive them away. The Gentiles are hurt when they see us doing such things, because they do not understand that we have been set free from them. Likewise, Jews and the weaker brethren will also suffer, for the same reason. HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 25.3.

BEING EDIFIED IN CHRIST. AUGUSTINE: The apostle wanted believers to please all men, and he took pleasure in pleasing them, not because he swelled up inside at their praise but because by being pleasing all might be edified in Christ. LETTER 231.

THE PEACE TO COME. CASSIODORUS: It was not for his own temporal advantage that he has spoken of the peace of the era to come but for his fellow believers and neighbors, so that they should long for it to gain salvation and chain themselves with the bonds of unanimity. EXPLANATION OF THE PSALMS 121.9.

THE IMITATION OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS 11:1-3

OVERVIEW: Everything in the Christian life hinges on following Christ in love (CHRYSOSTOM), as Paul did (CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA). As the Father sent the Son as the teacher and author of life, so Christ sent the apostles to be our teachers (AMBROSIASTER, BASIL). In the natural order the man is head of the woman, but in Christ there is neither male nor female (PELAGIUS). The Father is the head of the Son because he is eternally begotten of the Father. Christ is the head of the man because he created him, and the man is the head of the woman because she was taken from him (CYRIL OF JERUSALEM, AMBROSIASTER). Christ and God are equal in substance but different in relationship, and the same applies to man and woman, equal in dignity but different in relationship (TERTULLIAN, NOVATIAN, CHRYSOSTOM, AMBROSE). The nature of man and woman is the same (SEVERIAN OF GABALA). Paul admonished those who held to the local tradition that women would prophesy with bared heads and men with long hair would pray with heads covered (CHRYSOSTOM).

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