For who maketh thee to differ [from another]? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive [it], why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received [it]?
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Car qui est-ce qui te distingue? Qu'as-tu que tu n'aies reçu? Et si tu l'as reçu, pourquoi te glorifies-tu, comme si tu ne l'avais pas reçu?
KJV
For who maketh thee to differ [from another]? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive [it], why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received [it]?
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
ce we owe God, according to Ezech. 28:2, "Thy heart is lifted up, and Thou hast said: I am God," and 1 Cor. 4:7, "What hast thou that thou hast not received? And if thou hast received, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?" Or again when a man prefers to God the…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
he first cause by authority is God; and in this way no creature has any good of itself, according to 1 Cor. 4:7 : "What hast thou that thou hast not received?" Nevertheless, in a secondary manner anyone may be a cause, to himself, of having certain good things, inasmuch as he coo…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 100 (Migne)
? quid plangis judicia mea? Ego dedi, ego abstuli (Job. I, 21) . Quid [Col. 0321B] habes absque me (I Cor. IV, 7) ? Cur tibi displicet, quod mihi placet? Omnia, quae habes, mea sunt beneficia, non tua propria. Te ipsam para, ut possis particeps esse beatitudinis meae. Propter te…
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