2 Corinthians 1:14
As also you have known us in part, that we are your glory, as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- sicut et cognovistis nos ex parte, quod gloria vestra sumus, sicut et vos nostra, in die Domini nostri Jesu Christi.
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- καθὼς καὶ ἐπέγνωτε ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ μέρους, ὅτι καύχημα ὑμῶν ἐσμεν καθάπερ καὶ ὑμεῖς ἡμῶν ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ.
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom Homilies on Second Corinthians, Homily III
Ver. 14 . “As also ye did acknowledge us in part.” For your knowledge of us, he saith, is not from hearsay but from actual experience. The words “in part” he added from humility. For this is his wont, when necessity constraineth him to say any highsounding thing, (for he never doth so otherwise,) as desiring quickly to repress again the elation arising from what he had said. “And I hope ye will acknowledge even to the end.” [2.] Seest thou again how from the past he draws pledges for the future; and not from the past only, but also from the power of God? For he affirmed not absolutely, but cast the whole upon God and his hope in Him. “That we are your glorying, even as ye also are our’s, in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians, Philippians 1:22-26
You see that this explains the word “abide with you.” Behold his humility. Having said, “for your progress,” he shows that it was for his own profit too. This also he does, when he writes to the Romans, and says, “That is, that we may be comforted together in you.” ( Rom. i. 11, 12 .) Having previously said, “That I may impart unto you some spiritual gift.” And what means, “That your glorying may abound”? This glorying was, their establishment in the faith. For an upright life is glorying in Christ. And sayest thou, “Your glorying in me, through my presence with you again”? Yes, he answers; “For what is our hope, or crown of glorying? Are not even ye?” ( 1 Thess. ii. 19 .) Because “you are our glorying, even as we also are yours” ( 2 Cor. i. 14 .), i.e. that I may be able to rejoice in you greatly. …