ACC ~ 2 Corinthians 6 v10

SORROWFUL, YET REJOICING. CHRYSOSTOM: People outside the church may think we are sorrowful, but in fact we are always rejoicing. We may look poor, but in fact we have enormous riches, both spiritual and physical. As usual, the Christian life is the exact opposite of what it appears to be on the surface. HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 12.4.

POSSESSING EVERYTHING. PELAGIUS: The person who has only the bare necessities lacks nothing. COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 6.

KEEP WHAT MATTERS. AUGUSTINE: It could happen that some public official would say to a Christian: “Either you will stop being a Christian, or, if you persist in being one, you shall have no house or property.” That will be the time when those rich men, who had decided to keep their riches in order to win merit with God by using them for good works, will choose to give them up for Christ’s sake rather than Christ for their sake. … Thus they become as men “having nothing, yet possessing all things” —and everlasting life in the world to come, lest by giving up Christ for the sake of riches they be cast into everlasting death. LETTER 157, TO HILARIUS.

THE CHALLENGE TO THE CORINTHIANS 2 CORINTHIANS 6:11-18

OVERVIEW: Nothing is wider than Paul’s heart. He loved all the believers as one might love the object of one’s dearest affection (CHRYSOSTOM, AMBROSIASTER). We are temples of the living God. There is nothing more damaging to us than idols, because they tempt us to depart from our faith (AMBROSIASTER). Nothing can deprive us of our baptism apart from the denial of God and consorting with demons (PHILOXENUS OF MABBUG). Light has no fellowship with darkness (CYPRIAN, GREGORY OF NYSSA, BASIL, JEROME, AUGUSTINE, PRUDENTIUS).

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