[Forasmuch as ye are] manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Vous êtes manifestement une lettre de Christ, écrite, par notre ministère, non avec de l'encre, mais avec l'Esprit du Dieu vivant, non sur des tables de pierre, mais sur des tables de chair, sur les coeurs.
KJV
[Forasmuch as ye are] manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Eusebius of Caesarea
De Martyribus Palaestinae (Recensio Brevior)
οὺς μὲν ἄλλους ἅπαντας ὑγιέσιν ὀφθαλμοῖς ἐν κύκλῳ περιεστῶτας, τοῦτον δὲ μόνοις τοῖς τῆς διανοίας 15 2 Cor. 3, 3. χρώμενον, καὶ ἀτεχνῶς οἷά τινα προφήτην ἀποφθεγγόμενον, παρὰ πολύ τε πλεονεκτοῦντα τοὺς τὸ σῶμα ἐρρωμένους, οὐδ’ ὁπωσοῦν δοξάζειν τὸν θεὸν καὶ ἀποθαυμάζειν οἷός τε ἦν…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
reas He gave the New Law written "in the fleshly tables of the heart," as the Apostle expresses it ( 2 Cor. 3:3 ). Wherefore, as Augustine says (De Spir. et Lit. xviii), "the Apostle calls this letter which is written outside man, a ministration of death and a ministration of con…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
e living God; not in tables of stone, but in the fleshly tables of the heart," as the Apostle says ( 2 Cor. 3:3 ). Reply to Objection 3: Those who were unwilling to believe what the apostles wrote of Christ would have refused to believe the writings of Christ, whom they deemed to…
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