ACC ~ 2 Corinthians 4 v2

WE RENOUNCE UNDERHANDED WAYS. AMBROSIASTER: This is really an invitation. Just while he had been speaking about himself and his associates, Paul is now exhorting the Corinthians to lead a better life. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

NO CUNNING. CHRYSOSTOM: Some were “walking in craftiness.” They had a reputation for taking nothing, but in fact they took it and kept it secret. They had the seeming character of saints and apostles but were full of innumerable secret wickednesses. Paul takes nothing and calls the Corinthians as his witnesses. Likewise he does nothing wicked and asks them to testify to the truth of what he is saying. HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 8.1.

OPEN STATEMENT OF TRUTH. THEODORET OF CYR: Paul is talking here about circumcision, which the false apostles were covertly forcing on newly converted Gentiles. COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 307.

LIVES FILLED WITH LIGHT. GREGORY OF NYSSA: Knowing Christ as the “true light,” “inaccessible”to falsehood, we learn this, namely, that it is necessary for our lives also to be illuminated by the rays of the true light. But virtues are the rays of “the Sun of Justice,” streaming forth for our illumination, through which we “lay aside the works of darkness,” so that we “walk becomingly as in the day,” and “we renounce those things which shame conceals.”By doing all things in the light, we become the light itself, so that it “shines” before others, which is the peculiar quality of light. And if we recognize Christ as “sanctification,” in whom every action is steadfast and pure, let us prove by our life that we ourselves stand apart, being ourselves true sharers of his name, coinciding in deed and not in word with the power of his sanctification. ON PERFECTION.

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