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For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet [have ye] not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Car, quand vous auriez dix mille maîtres en Christ, vous n'avez cependant pas plusieurs pères, puisque c'est moi qui vous ai engendrés en Jésus-Christ par l'Evangile.

KJV

For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet [have ye] not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    ich man brings forth good works; not that by which he begets others in Christ, as the Apostle says ( 1 Cor. 4:15 ): "In Christ Jesus by the Gospel I have begotten you." Whether children receive grace and virtue in Baptism? Objection 1: It seems that children do not receive grace…
  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    ng. Neither therefore does it result from catechism. Objection 7: On the other hand, It is written ( 1 Cor. 4:15 ): "In Christ Jesus by the gospel I have begotten you." Now spiritual birth causes spiritual relationship. Therefore spiritual relationship results from the preaching…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 121 (Migne)

    ogorum habeatis in Christo, sed non multos patres. Nam in Christo Jesu per Evangelium ego vos genui (I Cor. IV, 15) . Isti ergo doctores Ecclesiae in hujusmodi generationibus procreandis aliquando [Col. 0737C] constrictis femoralibus utuntur, et abstinent a generando, cum tales…

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