2 TIMOTHY 2:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:”
The saying is sure: If we have died with him, we will also live with him — the trustworthy saying (logos pistos) announces the fundamental logic: death with Christ (synapothneō) precedes resurrection with him (synzaō). Eschatological destiny follows christological identification.
Church Fathers on 2 Timothy 2:11
Many of the weaker sort of men give up the effort of faith, and do not endure the deferring of their hope. They seek things present, and form from these their judgment of the future. When therefore their lot here was death, torments, and chains, and yet he says, they shall come to eternal life, they would not have believed, but would have said, “What do you say? When I live, I die; and when I die, I live? You promise nothing on earth, and do you give it in heaven? Little…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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