For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward [man] is renewed day by day.
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
C'est pourquoi nous ne perdons pas courage. Et lors même que notre homme extérieur se détruit, notre homme intérieur se renouvelle de jour en jour.
KJV
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward [man] is renewed day by day.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
body. Whether the soul is man? Objection 1: It would seem that the soul is man. For it is written ( 2 Cor. 4:16 ): "Though our outward man is corrupted, yet the inward man is renewed day by day." But that which is within man is the soul. Therefore the soul is the inward man. Obje…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
d place, the former of which the Apostle calls the "inward man," and the latter, the "outward man" ( 2 Cor. 4:16 ). Now the good look upon their rational nature or the inward man as being the chief thing in them, wherefore in this way they think themselves to be what they are. On…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 96 (Migne)
dicens: Et si [Col. 0529A] exterior homo noster corrumpitur, sed interior renovatur de die in diem (II Cor. IV, 16) . Sicut et ille sitiens Deum clamabat in psalmo: [Note: [Col. 0529C] Sitit te. Ex psal. LXII, secundum Septuaginta, qui ita transtulerunt ἐδήψησε ἡ ψυχὴ μοῦ ποσαπλ…
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