For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Car vous connaissez la grâce de notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, qui pour vous s'est fait pauvre, de riche qu'il était, afin que par sa pauvreté vous fussiez enrichis.
KJV
For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
Eucherius of Lyon
Book of Spiritual Intelligence Formulas
t" (Matthew 5:3). Christ is also described as poor: "Christ became poor for us, though He was rich" (2 Corinthians 8:9). On the negative side, the poor may symbolize destitution, as in the psalm: "We have become very poor" (Psalm 78:8). Clothed refers to having the integrity of b…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
poor for our [Vulg.: 'your'] sakes, that through His poverty we [you] might be rich," as is written 2 Cor. 8:9 , "wished the poor man's victim to be offered for Him" just as in His birth He was "wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger" [*Bede on Lk. 1 ]. Nevertheless, t…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
spiritual life on us, so did He bear bodily poverty, in order to enrich us spiritually, according to 2 Cor. 8:9 : "You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ: that . . . He became poor for our [Vulg.: 'your'] sakes that through His poverty we [Vulg.: 'you'] might be rich." Third…
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