2 CORINTHIANS 13:8 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.”
For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth — the *principium* is *absolute*: Paul and his colleagues can do *nothing against* (*kata*) *alētheia*, truth, only *hyper*, for/in service of truth. All apostolic action is *constrained* by *fidelity to revelation*.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 13:8
“Now I pray to God that you do no evil, not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is honorable, though we be as reprobate. For we can do nothing against the truth but for the truth. For we rejoice when we are weak, and you are strong. For this also we pray for even your perfecting.” What can be equal to this soul? He was despised, he was spit upon, he was ridiculed, he was mocked, as mean, as contemptible, as a braggart, as boastful in his words but in…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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