Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of God;
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Ce n'est pas à dire que nous soyons par nous-mêmes capables de concevoir quelque chose comme venant de nous-mêmes. Notre capacité, au contraire, vient de Dieu.
KJV
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of God;
Prosper of Aquitaine
Contra Collatorem
n rather than from the gift of grace, when he declares that his ability to think even comes from God 2 Corinthians 3:5. And these things are so indiscriminately mixed and confused that it is a great question among many as to what depends on what: whether it is because we have beg…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
inning by preparing, whereas the other did not. But against this we have the saying of the Apostle ( 2 Cor. 3:5 ), that "we are not sufficient to think anything of ourselves as of ourselves." Now no principle of action can be imagined previous to the act of thinking. Wherefore it…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
y understand truth by thinking, as is clear from Augustine (De Trin. xiv, 7). But the Apostle says ( 2 Cor. 3:5 ): "Not that we are sufficient to think anything of ourselves, as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God." Therefore man cannot, of himself, know truth without t…
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