1 Corinthians 8:3 — Greek Interlinear

Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 8:3

“But if any man love God, the same,” he does not say, “knows Him,” but, “is known of Him.” For we have not known Him, but He has known us. And therefore did Christ say, “You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you.” And Paul elsewhere, “Then shall I know fully, even as also I have been known.” Observe now, I pray, by what means he brings down their high-mindedness. First, he points out that not they alone knew the things which they knew; for “we all,” he says, have…