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For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

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Greek original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Car Dieu, ce me semble, a fait de nous, apôtres, les derniers des hommes, des condamnés à mort en quelque sorte, puisque nous avons été en spectacle au monde, aux anges et aux hommes.

KJV

For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

Patristic reading

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  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 96 (Migne)

    re complebat, dicens: Puto enim quia Deus nos apostolos novissimos ostendit, quasi morti destinatos (I Cor. IV, 9) . Omnibus igitur, qui se propter Christum infimos esse cupiebant, apostolus Paulus infimior erat, et idcirco major. Omnibus enim, inquit, illis plus laboravi; non au…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 99 (Migne)

    em dimicaturus in arena hujus mundi; ubi spectaculum facti sumus huic mundo et angelis et hominibus (I Cor. IV, 9) . Utramque enim partem, Christi scilicet et diaboli, infinita populi multitudo spectat luctantem. Duae sunt namque pactiones credentium. Prima pactio est, in qua ren…
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    Patrologia Latina Vol. 120 (Migne)

    at. Idcirco Apostolus suos ad cautelam redigens, ait: Spectaculum facti sumus mundo et angelis ejus (I Cor. IV, 9) . Quod nequaquam tam crebro suis monendo inculcaret auditoribus, si non sciret nos hinc inde fradulentis hostibus obsideri, et nostrum iter ad coelum quotidianis mac…

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