Didymus the Blind

In his own words on 2 Corinthians

• 2 Corinthians 1:1

  Paul does not always mention other people besides himself in his salutations. I think that he does this when one of his associates is well-known to the intended recipients. "With all the saints" is ambiguous. Either it means all the saints who were with Paul, or else it means all the saints who were at Corinth.

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• 2 Corinthians 1:2

  The works that the Father does the Son also does, and the gifts that the Father gives, the Son also gives. It is to be understood from this that although we know God as Father, we are still servants of Jesus Christ. We do not call him "brother" but Lord. For he is the only begotten Son by nature, not by adoption, and is Lord of all those who have been made children of God.

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• 2 Corinthians 1:3

  God alone is holy and good, sanctifying others and making them good. He alone is blessed, because he gives blessing and does not receive it from someone else. Likewise, he is the Father of mercies by nature, because he is the source of all mercy and not because he has acquired this from anyone else.

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• 2 Corinthians 1:12

  Earthly wisdom means knowledge of material things. Those who have this kind of wisdom have no room for the wisdom of the Spirit, which they regard as foolishness.

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• 2 Corinthians 2:11

  The problem is not merely to recognize Satan's designs but to play into them. Paul knows their dynamics, not so as to be engaged in them but so as not to be entrapped by them.

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• 2 Corinthians 2:12

  In Acts [:] it says that a man of Macedonia appeared to Paul in a dream and asked him to come over and help them. Paul does not mention this incident in his letter, evidently because he realized that this was not the right time to say such things about himself. .

• 2 Corinthians 2:12

  In Acts [16:9] it says that a man of Macedonia appeared to Paul in a dream and asked him to come over and help them. Paul does not mention this incident in his letter, evidently because he realized that this was not the right time to say such things about himself.

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• 2 Corinthians 3:1

  Paul gently expresses his surprise that the Corinthians are still unaware of the implication of his apostleship.

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• 2 Corinthians 4:4

  Every unbeliever is of this world. No one who has overcome it and been deemed worthy of the world to come is blinded in his understanding, for his eyes have been enlightened.

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• 2 Corinthians 4:5

  It is not we but he who enables our faith, accepting us and judging us by it.

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• 2 Corinthians 5:1

  Paul is talking here about two different worlds. One is the earthly, made with hands and visible. The other is invisible, made without hands and heavenly. On earth, our soul is clothed in flesh and blood, which is the visible and organic body. But once this body is left behind, the soul will move to the heavenly realm, where it will receive its body back, but one that has been transformed into a heavenly body.

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• 2 Corinthians 5:3

  The unbeliever and the evil man, even if by chance he puts on a heavenly body, will still be found naked, because he has done nothing to acquire the clothing of the inner man.

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• 2 Corinthians 5:14

  Paul explains that although he is beside himself, the love of God controls him.

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• 2 Corinthians 6:7

  The man who rightly seeks righteousness according to human understandings is equipped with the arms of righteousness for the left hand. The man who does the same according to the teachings of the truth and who has been sought out for this task by the Son of righteousness bears the weapons of the right hand.

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• 2 Corinthians 13:14

  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ saves us apart from works and fills us with grace.

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