_We helping, or in the Greek, working together, that is, with God, as employed by him, or as his ministers, and ambassadors, we exhort you not to receive the grace of God in vain, by resisting his interior graces, by an idle, or a wicked life. (Witham)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Now is the day of salvation, by the coming of your Redeemer. (Witham)_... [ Continue Reading ]
In this, and in the following verses, St. Paul shews his anxious solicitude not to give any, the least occasion of scandal, lest some reproach might fall upon the ministry of the gospel: for nothing is more likely to cast a blemish on the sanctity of religion, than the want of conduct in any of its... [ Continue Reading ]
The apostles maintained the character, and fulfilled the duties of the ministers of Christ, equally in prosperity and adversity; they continued to speak the truth, though regarded by the Jews as seducers; exposed to all kinds of dangers, they relied on God, who preserved them, though in the midst of... [ Continue Reading ]
Our _mouth is open to speak with freedom and confidence. --- Our heart is enlarged, dilated, as it were, with the warmth of love and charity. --- But you are straitened in our own bowels; you have not the like charity and love for me, nor for all your brethren, and for all mankind, &c. (Witham) ---... [ Continue Reading ]
_Bear not the yoke together with unbelievers. He does not mean, that they must wholly avoid their company, which could not be done, but not to have too intimate a friendship with them, not to marry with them, to avoid their vices. Be ye separate....touch not the unclean thing. He does not speak of m... [ Continue Reading ]
Such as have cast off the yoke of God are called children of Belial. (John viii. 44.) _Belial, in its radical signification, means without yoke. (Bible de Vence)_... [ Continue Reading ]
The apostle here blames the too great affection the Corinthians had for the Gentiles, who sometimes invited them to their religious feasts, at which were eaten meats which had been offered to idols, and which gave scandal both to the Christians and Gentiles. To draw them from these feasts he tells t... [ Continue Reading ]