Unde quicumque aliquid gubernat, dicitur minister Dei. VI, 5: cum essetis ministri, non recte iudicastis, et cetera. Secundo quantum ad gubernationem, scilicet inquantum gubernant populum Dei. Christus enim institutor est sacramentorum, sed apostoli et eorum successores ea dispensant, et ideo subditur in praedicta auctoritate et dispensatores mysteriorum Dei. IV, 1: sic nos existimet homo, ut ministros, et cetera. Primo quantum ad dispensationem sacramentorum. Ministri, inquit, Dei, dicetur vobis, scilicet apostolis, qui quidem dicuntur ministri quantum ad tria. Therefore he writes them this epistle, in which he commends the apostles and the dignity of the true apostles, and discloses and reproves the falseness of the false apostles.Ĭommendat autem verorum apostolorum dignitatem, ex hoc quod sunt ministri Dei. The reason he wrote this epistle was that he had preached to the Corinthians, but they had welcomed certain false apostles, whom they preferred to the Apostle. For in the first epistle the Apostle discussed the sacraments in this one he discusses the ministers, both good and bad, of these sacraments. – The subject matter of this second epistle to the Corinthians is fittingly touched upon by these words. Propter hoc scribit eis hanc epistolam, in qua commendat apostolos et ostendit verorum apostolorum dignitatem ostendit etiam et vituperat falsorum apostolorum falsitatem.ġ. Ratio autem hanc epistolam scribendi fuit, quod Corinthii, post praedicationem eius, admiserant pseudo-apostolos, quos apostolo praeferebant. Nam in prima epistola agit apostolus de ipsis sacramentis, sed in hac secunda agit de ministris ipsorum sacramentorum, tam bonis, quam malis. In his verbis congrue tangitur materia huius secundae epistolae ad Corinthios. “Men shall speak of you as ministers of our God” (Is. Saint Thomas Aquinas Translated by Fabian Larcher, O.P.ġ-1: 2 Cor. On the Second Epistle to the Corinthians by
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