# Exposition on 2 Corinthians - Author: [Pelagius](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/authors/pelagius/) - Latin title: *Expositio in epistulam II ad Corinthios* - Date: ca. 405–410 (approximate) - Source: Alexander Souter, ed., Pelagius's Expositions of Thirteen Epistles of St Paul, vol. 2: Text and Apparatus Criticus, Texts and Studies 9.2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1926) (Latin text: A. Souter (Texts and Studies 9.2, 1926); OCR of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam scan, read by Tesseract) - Translation: Claude, from the original text, unless a passage says otherwise; each passage below gives the translator - Editions and translations: Alexander Souter, Pelagius's Expositions of Thirteen Epistles of St Paul, 3 vols., Texts and Studies 9 (Cambridge, 1922–1931) - Work page: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/ - Passages: 239 ## Argumentum (prefatory note) - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-0 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:231 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Argument: Paul consoles the Corinthians after the rebukes of the first letter. ### Latin text [Quoniam in prima pro quorundam peccatis doctores eorum praecipue corripuerat, et multum fuerant contristati, nunc eos consolatur, suum eis proponens exemplum et docens non debere aegre ferre quod pro aliorum salute sunt correpti, cum ipse pro aliena salute periculis cottidie et morti subiace[a]t.] ### English translation (Claude) [Since in the first letter he had rebuked their teachers above all for the sins of certain people, and they had been greatly saddened, he now consoles them, setting before them his own example and teaching that they should not take it ill that they were rebuked for the salvation of others, since he himself is exposed daily to dangers and to death for the salvation of others.] ### Translation notes - Souter brackets this whole argument as not genuine Pelagius; it is kept in brackets so that the section is not empty. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. pref. (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:231; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0). ## 2 Corinthians 1:1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-1-1 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:231–232 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul puts his name first by apostolic authority; the "saints" of Achaia may be its priests. ### Latin text Paulus apostolus Christi Iesu. Quaeritur cur in omnibus epistulis contra usum epistularum primo suum nomen ponat quam eorum ad quos litterae destinantur. sed hoc auctoritatis [est] apostolici ordinis, quia minoribus scribit, sicut etiam iudices saeculi solent ad eos quos regunt scripta diregere. Per uoluntatem dei. Dei, non hominum uoluntate; simul ut ostendat non sine patris uoluntate se missum a Christo. Et Timotheus frater, ecclesiae dei quae est Corinthi. Non dixit: ‘Paulus et Timotheus,’ quia non ambo apostoli: ad Philip[p]enses uero, ubi non erat tanta auctoritas necessaria, ‘ serui ’ ambo ponuntur. Cum sanctis omnibus qui sunt in uniuersa Achaia . Hic sancti possunt accipi sacerdotes, qui in prima [ponuntur] dominum inuocantes, et ad Philip[p]enses cum episcopis et diaconis. ideo autem postea nominantur, ne parum intellegentes eos praetermissos esse putarent, cum iam sint in ecclesia conprehensi [Achaia], cuius est metropolis Corinthus. ### English translation (Claude) "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus." It is asked why in all his letters, against the custom of letters, he puts his own name before the names of those to whom the letter is sent. But this belongs to the authority of the apostolic order, because he writes to those who are lesser, as the judges of this world too are accustomed to address writings to those whom they govern. "By the will of God." By the will of God, not of men; at the same time to show that he was not sent by Christ without the Father's will. "And Timothy our brother, to the church of God which is at Corinth." He did not say "Paul and Timothy," because they were not both apostles; but to the Philippians, where so much authority was not needed, both are set down as "servants." "With all the saints who are in all Achaia." Here "saints" can be taken as priests, who in the first letter are those "calling on the Lord," and to the Philippians are "with the bishops and deacons." They are named afterwards so that those of little understanding should not think they had been passed over, since they are already included in the church, whose metropolis is Corinth. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 1:1: quotation, high confidence - Phil 1:1: allusion, high confidence - 1 Cor 1:2: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets est, ponuntur, a p in Philippenses, and Achaia; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 1.1 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:231–232; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/1-1). ## 2 Corinthians 1:2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-1-2 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:232 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The greeting leads into thanks for comfort received in order to comfort others. ### Latin text Gratia uobis et pax a deo patre [nostro] et domino Iesu Christo . [Solita apostoli salutatio]. [hinc iam] gratias agunt deo, gaudentes se ideo consolari ut ipsi alios consolentur. ### English translation (Claude) "Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ." They give thanks to God, rejoicing that they are consoled for this purpose, that they themselves may console others. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 1:2: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets nostro, "The apostle's usual greeting," and "from here now"; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 1.2 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:232; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/1-2). ## 2 Corinthians 1:3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-1-3 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:232 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God is the source of all mercy and of comfort equal to every trial. ### Latin text Benedictus deus et pater domini nostri Iesu Christi, pater misericordiarum. Quia ex ipso est omnis misericordia. Et deus totius consolationis. Id est, perfectae consolationis, quia non est minus tribulatione solacium. ### English translation (Claude) "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies." Because all mercy is from him. "And the God of all comfort." That is, of perfect comfort, because the comfort is no less than the tribulation. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 1:3: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 1.3 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:232; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/1-3). ## 2 Corinthians 1:4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-1-4 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:232–233 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God comforts Paul so that he may comfort others. ### Latin text Qui consolatur nos in omni pressura nostra. Non [in] aliquibus, sed in omnibus. Ut possimus et ipsi consolari eos qui sunt in omni angustia , per exhortationem qua exhortamur et ipsi a domino. Propterea liberamur, ut et nos alios consolari et de tristitia liberare possimus. Aut: Ita formam nobis dat alios consolandi, et per exhortationem qu[i]a ipsi a deo consolamur, agnoscimus quod deus timentium se neminem derelinquat et multo magis in futuro remuneret[ur] quos etiam in praesenti non deserit. ### English translation (Claude) "Who comforts us in all our affliction." Not in some, but in all. "So that we too may be able to comfort those who are in any distress, through the exhortation by which we ourselves are exhorted by the Lord." We are delivered for this reason, that we too may be able to comfort others and free them from sadness. Or: so he gives us a pattern for comforting others; and through the exhortation by which we ourselves are comforted by God, we recognize that God forsakes none of those who fear him, and will much more reward in the future those whom he does not desert even in the present. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 1:4: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets in, the i of quia, and -ur in remuneretur; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 1.4 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:232–233; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/1-4). ## 2 Corinthians 1:5 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-1-5 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:233 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Sufferings for Christ bring abundant comfort, as Peter and Paul found. ### Latin text Quoniam sicut abundant passiones Christi in nobis . Id est, pro nomine Christi. Ita et per Christum abundat [etiam] consolatio nostra . Ut [et] Petrus est de carcere liberatus et ipse Paulus uisione domini et uoce confirmatus in templo. ### English translation (Claude) "For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us." That is, for the name of Christ. "So also through Christ our comfort abounds." As Peter was freed from prison, and Paul himself was strengthened in the temple by a vision and the voice of the Lord. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 1:5: quotation, high confidence - Acts 12:7: allusion, high confidence - Acts 22:17: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets etiam and et; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 1.5 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:233; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/1-5). ## 2 Corinthians 1:6 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-1-6 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:233 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul's sufferings serve the Corinthians' encouragement and endurance. ### Latin text Siue autem angustiam patimur, pro uestra exhortatione et salute. Quia uos ad salutem hortamur. [Siue: Ut uobis exemplum tolerantiae praebeamus.] [Siue exhortamur,] pro uestra exhortatione, [quae operatur in] sufferentiam earundem passionum, quas et nos patimur , ### English translation (Claude) "But whether we suffer distress, it is for your exhortation and salvation." Because we exhort you to salvation. "For your exhortation, [which works in] the enduring of the same sufferings that we also suffer;" ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 1:6: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "Or: that we may give you an example of endurance" and "Or whether we are exhorted," left out; and "which works in" in the lemma, kept in brackets for the sense. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 1.6 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:233; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/1-6). ## 2 Corinthians 1:7 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-1-7 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:233 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Those who share Christ's sufferings will share the resurrection. ### Latin text et spes nostra firma [est] pro uobis . Ideo liberamur ut ipsa re confirmemini non pertimescere passiones. Siue: Ut uos hortemur patienter ferre illa quae et praesentem consolationem optinent et futuram. Scientes quia , et si socii passionum estis , simul et resurrectionis eritis . Haec est spes nostra firma pro uobis. ### English translation (Claude) "and our hope for you is firm." We are delivered for this reason, that by the fact itself you may be strengthened not to fear sufferings. Or: that we may exhort you to bear patiently the things that hold both present and future comfort. "Knowing that, as you are sharers of the sufferings, so you will also be of the resurrection." This is our firm hope for you. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 1:7: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The lemma reads "of the resurrection" (resurrectionis). Souter brackets est; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 1.7 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:233; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/1-7). ## 2 Corinthians 1:8 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-1-8 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:233–234 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul's great sufferings in Asia put the Corinthians' trials in perspective. ### Latin text Non enim uolumus ignorare [uos], fratres , de pressura nostra , quae facta est in Asia . Narrat suas passiones ut illi se ad earum conparationem parua pati cognoscant, maxime cum illi talia patiantur, qui uice Christi fuerant destinati, sicut, si quis discipulus doleat suam iniuriam, cum audierit magistrum maiora perpessum, consolatione accepta dolere desistit. Quoniam supra modum onerati sumus supra uires [nostras], Grauati pondere passionum. Ita ut taederet nos etiam uiuere. Ita ut mori omni desiderio cuperemus. ### English translation (Claude) "For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of our affliction which happened in Asia." He tells of his sufferings so that they may recognize that they suffer little in comparison, especially since such men suffer such things, who had been appointed in place of Christ; just as, if a disciple grieves over an injury to himself, when he hears that his master has endured greater, he receives comfort and stops grieving. "That we were burdened beyond measure, beyond strength," Weighed down by the weight of sufferings. "So that we were weary even of living." So that we longed with all desire to die. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 1:8: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets uos and nostras; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 1.8 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:233–234; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/1-8). ## 2 Corinthians 1:9 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-1-9 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:234 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Facing death taught Paul to trust only God, who raises the dead. ### Latin text Sed ipsi [in] nobis [ipsis] responsum mortis habuimus , ut non simus fidentes in nobis . Hoc est, in nostra prudentia uel cautela. Sed in deo , qui suscitat mortuos . Ipsa mors nos docuit omne humanum auxilium defecisse, [et] ab illo solo sperandum esse remedium, cui etiam mortuos suscitare possibile est. ### English translation (Claude) "But we had in ourselves the answer of death, so that we should not trust in ourselves." That is, in our own prudence or caution. "But in God, who raises the dead." Death itself taught us that all human help had failed, and that the remedy was to be hoped for from him alone for whom it is possible even to raise the dead. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 1:9: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets in, ipsis, and et; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 1.9 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:234; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/1-9). ## 2 Corinthians 1:10 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-1-10 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:234 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Hoping for further deliverance implies further suffering. ### Latin text Qui de tantis periculis eripuit nos [et eruet], in quem [et] speramus quoniam [adhuc] et liberabit. Scit se adhuc multa passurum, qui sperat se etiam liberandum. ### English translation (Claude) "Who delivered us from such great dangers, in whom we hope that he will also deliver." He who hopes that he will also be delivered knows that he will still suffer much. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 1:10: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "and will deliver," et, and adhuc; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 1.10 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:234; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/1-10). ## 2 Corinthians 1:11 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-1-11 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:234–235 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The church's prayer helps Paul, as it freed Peter, and many give thanks for him. ### Latin text Adiuuantibus et[iam] uobis. Nisi laborans [non] dicitur [ab alio] adiuuari. In oratione pro nobis. Multum ualet oratio totius ecclesiae, quae etiam Petrum de carcere liberauit. Ut ex multorum facie[rum eius], quae in nobis est , donationis per multos gratiae referantur pro nobis. Hoc habet sensus, ut ex multorum conuentu pro eo quod uobis donamur domino gratiae referantur. Siue: Quia multis donati sumus, plures conuertentes per nos gratias agant pro nobis. ### English translation (Claude) "You also helping." Only one who labors is said to be helped. "In prayer for us." The prayer of the whole church avails much; it even freed Peter from prison. "So that, from the faces of many, thanks may be given by many on our behalf for the gift that is in us." The sense is that from the gathering of many thanks may be given to the Lord, because we are granted to you. Or: because we have been granted to many, the many converted through us may give thanks for us. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 1:11: quotation, high confidence - Acts 12:5: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets -iam in etiam, non, "by another," and -rum eius; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 1.11 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:234–235; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/1-11). ## 2 Corinthians 1:12 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-1-12 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:235 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul's conscience witnesses that he taught freely, not for glory or gain. ### Latin text Nam exultatio nostra haec est. Ideo in ipsis passionibus gloriamur, quia conscientia nos minime reprehendit eo quod gloriae uel lucri causa docere uideamur. Testimonium conscientiae nostrae . ‘Beati mundo corde, quia ipsi deum uidebunt.’ Quoniam in simplicitate et sinceritate dei. Hoc est quo modo deus simplex est et sincerus. [Et] non in sapientia carnali , sed in gratia dei conuersati sumus in [hoc] mundo. Non subdole uel astute docentes, sicut [et] sapientia carnalis, quae mercede distrahitur, sed gratis, sicut a deo accepimus, praedicamus, uel dei solius causa docemus. Abundantius autem ad uos. A quibus nec uictum, qui nobis iure debebatur, accepimus. ### English translation (Claude) "For our boasting is this." We glory in sufferings for this reason, that our conscience does not reproach us at all with seeming to teach for the sake of glory or gain. "The testimony of our conscience." "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." "That in simplicity and sincerity of God." That is, as God is simple and sincere. "Not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God we have conducted ourselves in the world." Not teaching craftily or cunningly, as fleshly wisdom does, which is sold for a fee; but we preach freely, as we received from God, or we teach for God's sake alone. "And more abundantly toward you." From whom we did not accept even the food that was owed us by right. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 1:12: quotation, high confidence - Matt 5:8: quotation, high confidence - Matt 10:8: allusion, medium confidence - 1 Cor 9:12: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets Et, hoc, and et; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 1.12 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:235; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/1-12). ## 2 Corinthians 1:13 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-1-13 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:235 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul writes only what the Corinthians already know to be true. ### Latin text Non enim alia scribimus uobis . Non confundor, quia etiam uos nostis certum esse quod dico. Nam qu[a]e legistis et cognoscitis. Quae legistis in epistula, cognoscitis in conscientia. Spero autem quod usque in finem cognoscetis. Certus sum me propositum non mutare. ### English translation (Claude) "For we write nothing else to you." I am not confounded, because you too know that what I say is certain. "Than what you have read and know." What you have read in the letter you know in conscience. "And I hope that you will know to the end." I am sure that I do not change my purpose. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 1:13: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 1.13 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:235; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/1-13). ## 2 Corinthians 1:14 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-1-14 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:235–236 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Teacher and disciples are each other's glory at Christ's day. ### Latin text Sicut et cognouisti[s] nos ex parte. Quia ‘ nondum est finis : ’ cum autem finis uenerit, ex integro cognoscetis. Quia gloria uestra sumus, sicut et uos nostra. Sic est gloria discipulis de bono doctore, quo modo et magister in bonis discipulis gloriatur. In die[m] domini nostri Iesu Christi. Quando et ueri magistri et boni discipuli proba[bu]ntur. ### English translation (Claude) "As you have also known us in part." Because "the end is not yet"; but when the end comes, you will know fully. "That we are your glory, as you also are ours." As disciples have glory from a good teacher, so the master glories in good disciples. "On the day of our Lord Jesus Christ." When both true masters and good disciples will be proved. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 1:14: quotation, high confidence - Matt 24:6: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets letters of cognouistis, diem, and probabuntur; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 1.14 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:235–236; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/1-14). ## 2 Corinthians 1:15 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-1-15 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:236 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul planned to visit the Corinthians again for their good. ### Latin text Et hac confidentia uolueram prius uenire ad uos. Quia nihil aliut uestrum quaesiuimus quam salutem. Ut secundam gratiam haberetis [, ### English translation (Claude) "And in this confidence I had wanted to come to you first." Because we sought nothing else of yours than your salvation. "So that you might have a second grace," ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 1:15: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The lemma continues in the next section. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 1.15 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:236; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/1-15). ## 2 Corinthians 1:16 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-1-16 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:236 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The "second grace" is Paul's second visit. ### Latin text et per uos transirem in Macedoniam, et iterum a Macedonia uenirem ad uos , et a uobis deduci in Iudaeam ]. Quia primam in primo meo habuistis aduentu. Siue: Ut secundam gratiam praesentiae meae post litteras haberetis. ### English translation (Claude) ["and to pass by you into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be conducted by you into Judea."] Because you had the first in my first coming. Or: that you might have a second grace of my presence, after the letters. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 1:16: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the lemma of 2 Cor 1:16; it is kept in brackets so that the section has its verse. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 1.16 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:236; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/1-16). ## 2 Corinthians 1:17 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-1-17 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:236 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul's change of plan was not fickleness or fleshly duplicity. ### Latin text Cum hoc ergo cogitassem , numquit leui[t]ate usus sum? Quia promissum non impleuerat, ne leuita[ti]s putaretur, excusat. Aut quae cogito , secundum carnem cogito? Secundum carnalem scilicet uoluntatem : carnale est enim [aliquem] nulla maiore causa exsistente non facere quod[quod] promisit. Ut sit apud me ‘est’ [‘est’] et ‘non’ [‘non’]? Ideo non cogito secundum carnem, ut non mendax uel duplex inueniar. ### English translation (Claude) "When I intended this, then, did I act with lightness?" Because he had not fulfilled his promise, he excuses himself lest he be thought fickle. "Or what I plan, do I plan according to the flesh?" According to fleshly will, that is: for it is fleshly not to do what one has promised when no greater cause has arisen. "So that with me there should be 'yes' and 'no'?" Therefore I do not plan according to the flesh, lest I be found a liar or double. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 1:17: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets letters of leuitate and leuitatis, aliquem, the repeated quod, and the repeated "yes" and "no"; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 1.17 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:236; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/1-17). ## 2 Corinthians 1:18 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-1-18 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:236 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: As God is faithful, Paul's word is not ambiguous. ### Latin text Fidelis autem deus. Ita et nos, per quos ipse loquitur et qui eum imitamur, non sumus infideles. Quia sermo noster, qui fit apud uos , non est in illo ‘ est ’ et ‘ non ’ [, sed ‘ est ’ in illo est]. Nulla in illo est ambiguitas, nec nos uobis sumus aliquando mentiti. ### English translation (Claude) "But God is faithful." So we too, through whom he speaks and who imitate him, are not unfaithful. "For our word, which is with you, is not 'yes' and 'no' in it." There is no ambiguity in it, and we have never lied to you. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 1:18: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "but 'yes' is in it"; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 1.18 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:236; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/1-18). ## 2 Corinthians 1:19 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-1-19 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:236–237 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Christ is the unchangeable "yes"; he kept his word to the centurion by spiritual presence. ### Latin text Dei enim filius lesus Christus , qui in nobis [ est , qui ] per nos praedicatus est , [per me etSiluanum et Timotheum] non fuit ‘ est ’ et ‘non.’ [Si in] Christo non fuit ‘est’ et ‘non,’ qua re, cum promisisset se ire ad centurionis puerum, non perrexit? sed adfuit spiritali gratia, qui non adfuit praesentia corporali. Sed ‘ est ’ in illo fuit . Hoc est inmutabilis ueritas, sicut illud Moysi: ‘qui est misit me.’ Ille enim uere est qui semper idem est. ### English translation (Claude) "For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you through us, was not 'yes' and 'no.'" In Christ there was not "yes" and "no"; why then, when he had promised to go to the centurion's servant, did he not go? But he who was not present in bodily presence was present by spiritual grace. "But in him was 'yes.'" That is, unchangeable truth, as that word to Moses: "He who is has sent me." For he truly is who is always the same. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 1:19: quotation, high confidence - Matt 8:7: allusion, high confidence - Matt 8:13: allusion, medium confidence - Exod 3:14: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "is, who" and "by me and Silvanus and Timothy" in the lemma, and "If" before "in Christ"; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 1.19 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:236–237; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/1-19). ## 2 Corinthians 1:20 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-1-20 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:237 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: All God's promises are true in Christ. ### Latin text Quotquot enim promissiones dei [sunt], in illo ‘ est ,’ etiam per ipsum ‘ amen ’ deo ad gloriam per nos. Omnis ueritas promissionis in Christo est, quae per nos ad dei gloriam praedicatur. ### English translation (Claude) "For all the promises of God, in him are 'yes'; therefore also through him the 'amen' to God, for glory, through us." All the truth of the promise is in Christ, and it is preached through us to the glory of God. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 1:20: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets sunt; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 1.20 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:237; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/1-20). ## 2 Corinthians 1:21 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-1-21 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:237 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God confirms and anoints believers, with the Spirit or with chrism. ### Latin text Qui autem confirma[ui]t nos uobiscum Christus dominus. Gratia et doctrina; et quia dixerat per nos, modo ostendit deum totum facere, qui in eis ista omnia est operatus. Et qui unxit nos deus. Spiritu sancto uel chrismate. ### English translation (Claude) "But he who confirms us with you is Christ the Lord." By grace and teaching; and because he had said "through us," now he shows that God does everything, who worked all these things in them. "And he who anointed us is God." With the Holy Spirit or with chrism. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 1:21: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets -ui- in confirmauit; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 1.21 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:237; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/1-21). ## 2 Corinthians 1:22 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-1-22 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:237 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The Spirit is the pledge of a great inheritance. ### Latin text Et qui signauit nos . Illut signatur quod aliquid intrinsecus continet praetiosum. Et dedit pignus spiritus in cordibus nostris. Pro arra spiritus gratiam; omnis autem arra pro magnitudine pretii dari solet: quantum ergo pretium est, cuius tanta est arra ! ### English translation (Claude) "And who sealed us." That is sealed which contains something precious within. "And gave the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts." As a pledge, the grace of the Spirit; and every pledge is usually given according to the size of the price: how great, then, is the price whose pledge is so great! ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 1:22: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 1.22 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:237; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/1-22). ## 2 Corinthians 1:23 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-1-23 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:237–238 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul stayed away to spare the Corinthians a severe visit. ### Latin text Ego autem testem deum inuoco. Reddit causam non impleti promissi: hoc est, non suae leuitati, sed illorum infirmitati adserit deputandum. Et animam meam . Cuius secreta solus agnoscit. Quod parcens uobis non ueni [ultra] Corinthum . Ne in uobis acrius uindicarem. ### English translation (Claude) "But I call God as witness." He gives the reason for not fulfilling the promise: that is, he asserts that it is to be attributed not to his fickleness but to their weakness. "And upon my soul." Whose secrets he alone knows. "That to spare you I did not come to Corinth." Lest I punish you more severely. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 1:23: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets ultra; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 1.23 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:237–238; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/1-23). ## 2 Corinthians 1:24 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-1-24 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:238 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul does not dominate the Corinthians but works for their amendment and joy. ### Latin text Non quia dominamur fidei uestrae , sed cooperarii sumus uestrae gloriae. Non quo ideo credideritis ut uobis dominemur, sicut in lege sacerdotes, et ideo uos terremus, sed omnia ad uestram facimus emendationem, ut et hic in conscientia [et] in perpetuo gaudeatis, ne ipsa libertate male usi ruatis in peius. Nam fide statis. Fide, non lege; id est, credendo Christo stare coepistis. ### English translation (Claude) "Not that we lord it over your faith, but we are fellow workers of your glory." Not that you believed so that we might lord it over you, like the priests under the law, and for that reason frighten you; but we do everything for your amendment, so that you may rejoice both here in conscience and forever, and not, misusing liberty itself, rush into worse. "For by faith you stand." By faith, not by law; that is, by believing Christ you began to stand. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 1:24: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The lemma reads "of your glory" (gloriae). Souter brackets et; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 1.24 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:238; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/1-24). ## 2 Corinthians 2:1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-2-1 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:238 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul resolved not to come again in sorrow. ### Latin text Iudicaui autem hoc ipsum apud me , ne iterum uenirem in tristitiam ad uos. Id est, cogitaui siue disposui, ne in tristitiam secundo uenirem, qui, cum primum credidistis, [apud uos] in gaudio fui. ### English translation (Claude) "But I decided this with myself, not to come to you again in sorrow." That is, I thought or arranged not to come a second time in sorrow, I who was in joy when you first believed. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 2:1: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "among you"; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 2.1 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:238; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/2-1). ## 2 Corinthians 2:2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-2-2 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:238 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Godly sorrow, like a patient's pain, leads to healing and the teacher's joy. ### Latin text Si enim contristo ego uos , et quis est qui me laetificet? Propter ea hoc facio, ut possim gaudere de uobis. Nisi qui[s ] contristatur ex me. Si enim contristatur, intellegit se peccasse: sic [et] aeger, qui dolorem sentit, potest percipere sanitatem et ad medici laetitiam pertinere. ### English translation (Claude) "For if I make you sorrowful, who is there to make me glad?" I do this so that I may be able to rejoice over you. "Except the one who is made sorrowful by me." For if he is made sorrowful, he understands that he has sinned: so too a sick man who feels pain can receive health and add to the physician's joy. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 2:2: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the s of quis and et; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 2.2 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:238; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/2-2). ## 2 Corinthians 2:3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-2-3 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:238–239 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul wrote so that their amendment would spare him further sorrow. ### Latin text Et hoc ipsum scripsi [uobis], Modo enim ideo scribo uel ante scripsi, ut litteris emendati praesentem [me] gaudere faciatis. Ut non , cum uenero , tristitiam super tristitiam habeam. Tristitiam habeo, quia pecca[s]tis, quae magis augebitur, si uos non perfecte uidero emendasse. De quibus oportuerat me gaudere . De quibus semper gaudere debueram. Siue: De emendatione gratulari. Confidens in omnibus uobis, quia meum gaudium omnium uestrum est. Confidens uos intellegere quia tunc sit uerum gaudium uestrum, si ego gaudeam. Siue: Confido quod me taliter diligatis, ut meum gaudium uestrum esse ducatis. ### English translation (Claude) "And I wrote this very thing," For I write now, or wrote before, so that, corrected by letters, you may make me glad when I am present. "So that when I come I may not have sorrow upon sorrow." I have sorrow because you sinned, and it will be increased if I do not see that you have perfectly amended. "Over whom I ought to have rejoiced." Over whom I ought always to have rejoiced. Or: to be glad of your amendment. "Trusting in all of you, that my joy is the joy of you all." Trusting that you understand that your joy is true then, if I rejoice. Or: I trust that you love me so much that you count my joy as yours. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 2:3: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets uobis, me, and the s of peccastis; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 2.3 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:238–239; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/2-3). ## 2 Corinthians 2:4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-2-4 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:239 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul's tearful letter came from love. ### Latin text Nam ex multa pressura et angustia cordis scripsi uobis per multas lacrimas . Primam epistulam, qu[i]a uos corripui: et [hinc] intellegendum quam fuerit de omnium salute sollicitus. Non ut contristemini, sed ut sciatis quam [ abundantius ] habeam caritatem. Non ideo commemoro ut iterum contristemini, sed ut sciatis me omnia de caritate fecisse. [Abundantius] in uobis. Ex maiore sollicitudine abundantiorem cognoscite caritatem. ### English translation (Claude) "For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears." The first letter, in which I rebuked you; it is to be understood how anxious he was for the salvation of all. "Not that you should be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love I have." I do not mention it so that you may be saddened again, but so that you may know that I did everything out of love. "Toward you." From the greater anxiety recognize the more abundant love. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 2:4: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the i of quia, hinc, and abundantius ("more abundantly") twice; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 2.4 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:239; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/2-4). ## 2 Corinthians 2:5 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-2-5 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:239–240 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The offender harmed himself; he must be received lest he despair. ### Latin text Si quis autem contristauit , non me contristauit. Quia per illius peccatum etiam uos correpti amplius profecistis. Siue: Qui emendauit, non me penitus contristauit. Sed ex parte. Ex ea solum parte qua nocuit sibi[, dum illi necesse est paenitere]. Ut non onerem omnes uos. Ideo scribo eum recipi, ut non oneremini, si per uestram duritiam desperauerit de salute. ### English translation (Claude) "But if anyone has caused sorrow, he has not caused sorrow to me." Because through his sin you too, being rebuked, made more progress. Or: he who has amended has not wholly saddened me. "But in part." Only in that part in which he harmed himself. "So as not to burden all of you." I write that he should be received for this reason, lest you be burdened if through your harshness he despairs of salvation. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 2:5: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "while it is necessary for him to repent"; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 2.5 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:239–240; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/2-5). ## 2 Corinthians 2:6 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-2-6 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:240 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Punishment is enough; the penitent must be forgiven and comforted lest he despair. ### Latin text Sufficit ei qui eius modi est, obiurgatio haec quae fit a pluribus . Non de illo solo dicit qui paternum polluit thorum, sed de omni peccante: nam multos illic peccasse epistula prima demonstrat. Ita ut e contrario magis donetis et consolemini. Ut contra obiurgationem donetis ueniam et consolemini uerbis prophet[i]ae dicentis: ‘nolo mortem peccatoris[, tantum ut conuertatur et uiuat’], et: ‘iniquus quacumque die fuerit conuersus, non memorabuntur peccata eius.' Ne forte maiore tristitia absorbeatur qui eius modi est. Ne forte per desperationem indulgentiae absorbeatur gurgite uitiorum, et a diabolo persuasus ad infidelitatis et blasphemiae maiora praecipitia deducatur. ### English translation (Claude) "Sufficient for such a one is this rebuke which is inflicted by many." He does not speak only of the one who defiled his father's bed, but of every sinner: for the first letter shows that many had sinned there. "So that on the contrary you should rather forgive and comfort him." That instead of rebuke you grant pardon and comfort with the words of the prophecy that says: "I do not desire the death of the sinner," and: "On whatever day the wicked man is converted, his sins will not be remembered." "Lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up by greater sorrow." Lest perhaps through despair of pardon he be swallowed up in the whirlpool of vices, and, persuaded by the devil, be led down to the greater precipices of unbelief and blasphemy. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 2:6: quotation, high confidence - 2 Cor 2:7: quotation, high confidence - 1 Cor 5:1: allusion, high confidence - Ezek 33:11: quotation, high confidence - Ezek 18:22: quotation, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The section covers 2 Cor 2:6–7. The quotations are Ezek 33:11 and Ezek 18:22 (compare 33:16). Souter brackets the i of prophetiae and "only that he be converted and live"; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 2.6 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:240; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/2-6). ## 2 Corinthians 2:8 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-2-8 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:240 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The church must show love so the penitent knows he is fully pardoned. ### Latin text Propter quod obsecro uos ut confirmetis in illum caritatem. Qua perfectam se agnoscat ueniam consecutum. ### English translation (Claude) "Therefore I beseech you to confirm your love toward him." By which he may recognize that he has obtained full pardon. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 2:8: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 2.8 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:240; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/2-8). ## 2 Corinthians 2:9 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-2-9 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:240–241 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul tests whether the church obeys in forgiving as in punishing. ### Latin text Ad hoc enim [et hoc ] scripsi, ut cognoscam experimentum uestrum, si in omnibus oboedientes estis. Ut uideam si, quo mod[o ob]audistis in [uindicando, ita obaudiatis in] indulgendo: oboedientia enim illa perfecta et uera est quae in nullo contemnit. ### English translation (Claude) "For this is why I wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things." To see whether, as you obeyed in punishing, so you obey in forgiving: for that obedience is perfect and true which disregards nothing. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 2:9: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "and this" in the lemma and letters and words of the comparison ("you obeyed in punishing, so you obey in"); without them the sentence has no sense, so it is rendered in full. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 2.9 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:240–241; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/2-9). ## 2 Corinthians 2:10 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-2-10 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:241 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul forgives in Christ's person; refusing repentance, as Novatus did, is Satan's device. ### Latin text [Si] cui autem aliquid donastis, et ego: nam et ego quae donaui . Si cui iam forte donastis, et ego: sicut uobiscum uindicaui, ita et dono uobiscum. quod autem ego dono, non in mea persona, sed Christi, qui dixit: 'quae donaueritis in terra, erunt soluta et in caelo.’ [Si quid donaui ,] propter uos. Ne uos grauemini uel contristemini. In facie Christi. Quia uice fungimur Christi. Ut non circumueniamur a Satana[n]: nec enim uersutias eius ignoramus. Similiter enim circumuenit per nimiam duritiam, ut peccatores pereant desperando, quo modo in nimia remissione minime corrigendo. unde Solomon ait: ‘non declines dextra[m] neque [in] sinistra[m].’ quamuis ergo tota epistula contra Nouatum sit, tamen hic euidentissime ostenditur a diabolo circumuentus paenitentiam denegare, cuius ista uersutia est ut sub specie iustitiae fallat incautos. ### English translation (Claude) "But to whom you have forgiven anything, I also: for what I too have forgiven," If you have perhaps already forgiven anyone, I also: as I punished together with you, so I also forgive with you. And what I forgive, I forgive not in my own person but in Christ's, who said: "Whatever you forgive on earth will be loosed also in heaven." "For your sake." Lest you be burdened or saddened. "In the person of Christ." Because we act in Christ's place. "So that we may not be outwitted by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices." For he outwits by excessive harshness, so that sinners perish by despairing, just as by excessive laxity, by not correcting them at all. Hence Solomon says: "Do not turn aside to the right or to the left." So although the whole letter is against Novatus, yet here it is shown most clearly that he who denies repentance has been outwitted by the devil, whose device it is to deceive the unwary under the appearance of righteousness. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 2:10: quotation, high confidence - 2 Cor 2:11: quotation, high confidence - Matt 18:18: quotation, medium confidence - Prov 4:27: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The section covers 2 Cor 2:10–11. The quotations are Matt 18:18 (in a free form) and Prov 4:27. Souter brackets Si, "if I have forgiven anything," the n of Satanan, and letters of dextram and sinistram; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 2.10 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:241; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/2-10). ## 2 Corinthians 2:12 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-2-12 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:241–242 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: A door for preaching opened at Troas. ### Latin text Cum uenissem autem Troadem propter euangelium Christi et ostium. Aditus uel oportunitas praedicandi. Mihi apertum esset in domino , ### English translation (Claude) "When I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and a door" Access, or opportunity for preaching. "was opened to me in the Lord," ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 2:12: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 2.12 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:241–242; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/2-12). ## 2 Corinthians 2:13 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-2-13 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:242 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Anxious for the Corinthians, Paul left Troas to meet Titus in Macedonia. ### Latin text non habui requiem spiritui meo , eo quod non inuenerim Titum fratrem meum. Modo illis uult probare quanto amplius eos diligat, quorum causa tantum sollicitus est, ut cum illi essent omnia prosperata, nullam requiem habuerit, quia Titum, quem ad eos uidendos miserat, non inuenit, timens scilicet ne minime correxissent, quia nondum ei renuntiauerat Titus. Sed uale dicens eis . Cito inde egressus sum, quamuis occasionem habuerim praedicandi. Profectus sum in Macedoniam. Per quam a uobis Titus erat utique rediturus: uicinior est enim Macedoniae Ac[h]aia quam Troad[a]e: denique, dum ibi esset, dicit Titum postea aduenisse. ### English translation (Claude) "I had no rest for my spirit, because I did not find Titus my brother." Now he wants to prove to them how much more he loves them, for whose sake he was so anxious that, though everything had prospered for him, he had no rest, because he did not find Titus, whom he had sent to see them; fearing, of course, that they had not corrected themselves at all, since Titus had not yet reported to him. "But saying farewell to them." I left there quickly, although I had an opportunity to preach. "I set out for Macedonia." Through which Titus would certainly return from you: for Achaia is nearer to Macedonia than to Troas; and then, while he was there, he says that Titus came afterwards. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 2:13: quotation, high confidence - 2 Cor 7:6: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the h of Achaia and the a of Troade; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 2.13 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:242; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/2-13). ## 2 Corinthians 2:14 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-2-14 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:242 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God's knowledge spreads like a fragrance through teaching and signs. ### Latin text Deo autem gratias , qui semper triumphat nos in Christo. Triumphare nos facit per Christum. Siue: In nobis ipse triumphat. Et odorem notitiae suae manifestat per nos in omni loco . Odor notitiae dei per doctrinam manifestatur et signa : odor autem ideo dicitur quia sentitur potius quam uidetur, et quia primo credentes modicum aliquit tamquam [per] odorem sentire ualebant. ### English translation (Claude) "But thanks be to God, who always makes us triumph in Christ." He makes us triumph through Christ. Or: he himself triumphs in us. "And manifests the fragrance of his knowledge through us in every place." The fragrance of the knowledge of God is manifested through teaching and signs; and it is called fragrance because it is perceived rather than seen, and because the first believers were able to perceive something small, as through a fragrance. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 2:14: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets per; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 2.14 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:242; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/2-14). ## 2 Corinthians 2:15 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-2-15 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:242–243 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The apostles' work is a good fragrance in healing and in punishment alike. ### Latin text Quia Christi bonus odor sumus deo in hi[i]s qui salui fiunt , et in hi[i]s qui pereunt . Quidam ita dicunt: “noster labor deo semper est gratus, quia omnibus praedicamus, seu uelint credere illi seu nolint.” sed hic proprie de illis dicit qui uel sanabantur per ipsos, uel in quibus uindicta fiebat. bonus ergo odor in utrisque, quia iustus. ### English translation (Claude) "For we are the good fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing." Some say thus: "Our labor is always pleasing to God, because we preach to all, whether they wish to believe or not." But here he speaks properly of those who were either healed through them or on whom punishment fell. So the fragrance is good in both cases, because it is just. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 2:15: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets an i in hiis twice; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 2.15 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:242–243; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/2-15). ## 2 Corinthians 2:16 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-2-16 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:243 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The apostles were chosen to be a fragrance of life or death. ### Latin text [ Quibusdam [ quidem ] odor mortis in mortem, ] quibusdam quidem odor uitae in uitam: et ad haec quis [est] tam idoneus? Et [ad] haec facienda quis potest tam idoneus esse quam nos, qui ad hoc sumus electi? ### English translation (Claude) "[To some a fragrance of death unto death,] to others a fragrance of life unto life: and who is so fit for these things?" And who can be so fit to do these things as we, who were chosen for this? ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 2:16: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the first half of the lemma, kept in brackets for the sense, and quidem, est, ad; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 2.16 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:243; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/2-16). ## 2 Corinthians 2:17 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-2-17 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:243 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Unlike the false apostles, Paul does not dilute God's word with flattery. ### Latin text Non enim sumus sicut plurimi , adulterantes uerbum dei , sed ex sinceritate . Pseudo-apostolos tangit, humanum sensum diuinae praedicationi miscentes, unde [et] Isaias ait: ‘caupones tui miscent uino aquam’; id est, mer[a]e doctrinae adulationis mollia uerba, quibus homines [qui] non tam inebriati ferueant quam delectati tepescant. [Sed] sicut ex deo coram ipso in Christo loquimur. Sicut ex deo processit doctrina, quam scimus nos ipso praesente in persona dicere Christi, id est, sicut ipse praedicauit. ### English translation (Claude) "For we are not, like very many, adulterating the word of God, but from sincerity." He touches the false apostles, who mixed human sense with divine preaching; hence Isaiah too says: "Your innkeepers mix water with wine"; that is, they mix with pure teaching the soft words of flattery, by which people are not so much made drunk to be fervent as delighted to grow lukewarm. "As from God, before him, in Christ we speak." As the teaching proceeded from God, which we know we speak in his presence, in the person of Christ, that is, as he himself preached. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 2:17: quotation, high confidence - Isa 1:22: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The quotation is Isa 1:22 in a Latin form. Souter brackets et, the a of merae, qui, and Sed; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 2.17 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:243; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/2-17). ## 2 Corinthians 3:1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-3-1 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:243–244 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul needs no letters of commendation; others do. ### Latin text Incipimus iterum nosmet ipsos commendare? Non ut commendemus nos uobis ista dicendo, laudare nos uolumus, sed haec, ne ab aliis seducamini, cogimur memorare. Aut numquid indigemus, sicut quidam , commendaticias epistulas ad uos aut a uobis [aliquas commendaticias ]? Quos non commendat gratia uirtutum, illos digne commendant epistulae amicorum. ### English translation (Claude) "Are we beginning again to commend ourselves?" We do not wish to praise ourselves, commending ourselves to you by saying these things; but we are compelled to mention them, lest you be seduced by others. "Or do we need, as some do, letters of commendation to you or from you?" Those whom the grace of powers does not commend are fittingly commended by the letters of friends. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 3:1: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "any letters of commendation"; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 3.1 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:243–244; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/3-1). ## 2 Corinthians 3:2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-3-2 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:244 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The Corinthians' faith is Paul's letter of commendation. ### Latin text Epistula nostra uos estis. Per uestram fidem omnibus commendamur, sicut alibi dicit : ‘signaculum apostolatus mei uos estis.’ Scripta in cordibus nostris. In conscientiis nostris e[s]t uos nobis praedicantibus credidisse. Siue: In corde nostro est praedicatio, per quam epistula [nostra] estis effecti. Quae [cogno]scitur et [quae] legitur ab omnibus hominibus, ### English translation (Claude) "You are our letter." Through your faith we are commended to all, as he says elsewhere: "You are the seal of my apostleship." "Written in our hearts." In our consciences, that you believed through our preaching. Or: in our heart is the preaching through which you have been made a letter. "Which is known and read by all men," ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 3:2: quotation, high confidence - 1 Cor 9:2: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the s of est, nostra, cogno- in cognoscitur, and quae; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 3.2 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:244; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/3-2). ## 2 Corinthians 3:3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-3-3 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:244–245 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The law was written on stone for hard hearts; Christ's words were received in the heart, making sin less excusable. ### Latin text manifestati[o] quoniam estis epistula Christi ministrata a nobis . Omnibus manifestum est Christo uos per nostram credidisse doctrinam, confirmante per uirtutem spiritu sancto. Siue: Hinc uere cognoscimini Christi esse, quod et spiritum accepistis. Inscripta , non atramento, sed spiritu [ sancto ] dei uiui. Hoc est, spiritu sancto praeparata. Non in tabulis lapideis, sed in tabulis cordis carnalibus . Hinc iam differentiam inducit legis et gratiae. Iudaei in dura materia legem acceperunt significante [et] duritia[m] mentis eorum, sicut et uelamen faciei Moysi cordis eorum uelamen ignorantiae portendebat: nos uero, quamuis legem Christi scriptam in euangeliis habeamus, tamen in primis non quasi absentes tabulis scriptis, sed praesentes per auditum domini uerba corde suscepimus: eua[n]gelia uero postmodum scripta sunt ad memoriam posterorum. si ergo inexcusabiles sunt qui legem in lapidibus acceperunt, quanto magis nos qui uerba Christi suscepimus, si peccemus, sicut [et] ad Hebraeos scribitur: ‘si enim illi non effugerunt super terram loquente[m] sibi,’ et cetera ! ### English translation (Claude) "being made manifest that you are a letter of Christ, ministered by us." It is manifest to all that you believed Christ through our teaching, the Holy Spirit confirming it by power. Or: hence you are truly known to be Christ's, because you have also received the Spirit. "Written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God." That is, prepared by the Holy Spirit. "Not on tablets of stone, but on fleshly tablets of the heart." Here he now introduces the difference between law and grace. The Jews received the law on hard material, which signified the hardness of their mind, just as the veil on Moses' face portended the veil of ignorance on their heart; but we, although we have the law of Christ written in the gospels, yet at first received the Lord's words in our heart, not as absent people through written tablets but as present people through hearing; the gospels were written afterwards, to be remembered by later generations. If, then, those who received the law on stones are without excuse, how much more we who have received the words of Christ, if we sin; as is also written to the Hebrews: "For if they did not escape who refused him who spoke to them on earth," and the rest! ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 3:3: quotation, high confidence - Exod 34:33: allusion, high confidence - Heb 12:25: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets sancto, et, the m of duritiam, the n of euangelia, et, and the m of loquentem; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 3.3 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:244–245; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/3-3). ## 2 Corinthians 3:4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-3-4 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:245 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul's confidence rests on the Corinthians' faith and on God's grace. ### Latin text Fiduciam [autem] talem habemus ad dominum per Christum . Qui[a] nouimus uos per nos credidisse, uel qu[i]a [nos] non humana epistula, sed gratia diuina commendat. ### English translation (Claude) "And such confidence we have toward the Lord through Christ." Because we know that you believed through us, or because not a human letter but divine grace commends us. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 3:4: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets autem, the a of quia (twice), and nos; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 3.4 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:245; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/3-4). ## 2 Corinthians 3:5 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-3-5 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:245 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The apostles' sufficiency is from God's grace, not their own power. ### Latin text Non quod sufficientes simus cogitare aliquit a nobis quasi ex nobis . Uult ostendere nihil se sua prudentia facere uel uirtute, quia pauci homines rustici numquam sine dei gratia totum mundum saluare potuissent. Sed sufficientia nostra ex deo est. Ideo hoc praemisit quia dicturus erat tanto maius se quam Moysen ministerium suscepisse, quanto maius est nouum testamentum a lege scilicet, ut eos a falsis apostolis sibi detrahentibus reuocaret. ### English translation (Claude) "Not that we are sufficient to think anything from ourselves, as from ourselves." He wishes to show that he does nothing by his own prudence or power, because a few rustic men could never have saved the whole world without the grace of God. "But our sufficiency is from God." He put this first because he was about to say that he had received a ministry greater than Moses' by as much as the new testament is greater than the law, namely to call them back from the false apostles who were disparaging him. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 3:5: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 3.5 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:245; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/3-5). ## 2 Corinthians 3:6 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-3-6 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:245–246 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The letter of the law kills sinners; Pelagius rejects reading the commandments allegorically. ### Latin text Qui et sufficientes nos fecit ministros noui testamenti. Cum ad hoc implendum idonei non essemus. Non littera[e] , sed spiritu[s]. Non litterae legis, sed spiritui gratiae ministrantes. Littera enim occidit , spiritus autem uiuijicat. Quo modo [autem] ergo alibi legem dicit esse spiritalem? sed spiritalibus. ceterum peccatores occidit: gratia uero etiam impium iustificat conuertentem. quidam uero dicunt quod historicus intellectus occidat, [ne]scientes quod nec ubique historia[e] nec ubique possit allegoria seruari: nam sicut quaedam in figura sunt dicta, [ita,] si praecepta uelis allegorice intellegere, omnem eorum uirtutem euacuans, omnibus aperuisti ianuam delinquendi. sed [et] ille uere spiritalis est intellectus qui non ueri similibus [coloribus] pulchrum mendacium pingit, sed uirtute rerum ipsarum exprimit ueritates. ### English translation (Claude) "Who has also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant." Since we were not fit to fulfil this. "Not of the letter, but of the Spirit." Ministering not to the letter of the law but to the Spirit of grace. "For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life." How then does he say elsewhere that the law is spiritual? It is spiritual to the spiritual; but it kills sinners, whereas grace justifies even the ungodly man who turns. Some say that the historical sense kills, not knowing that neither history nor allegory can be kept everywhere: for just as some things are said figuratively, so, if you choose to understand the commandments allegorically, you empty them of all their force and open the door of sinning to all. But that is truly the spiritual sense which does not paint a beautiful lie with plausible touches, but expresses the truths by the force of the things themselves. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 3:6: quotation, high confidence - Rom 7:14: allusion, high confidence - Rom 4:5: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets autem, ne- in nescientes (kept for the sense), the e of historiae, ita, et, and coloribus ("colors"); left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 3.6 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:245–246; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/3-6). ## 2 Corinthians 3:7 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-3-7 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:246–247 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The glory of the law gives way to the gospel's as seed to fruit, against the Manichaeans. ### Latin text Quod si ministratio mortis , [in] litteris [de] formata in lapidibus, fuit in gloria . Quae mortificat peccatores. ceterum ipse eam [et] sanctam et iustam et bonam alibi appellauit. Ita ut non possint filii Istrahel in faciem Moysi intendere propter gloriam uultus eius , quae euacuatur . Contra Manichaeos. numquam enim apostolus posset contraria comparare, id est, [maiorem] ministrorum noui testamenti quam Moysi gloriam praedicare, si nulla inter eos uideretur esse communio. ‘Propter gloriam uultus eius, quae euacuatur.’ Gloria legis per gloriam euangelii euacuatur, sed i[s]ta euacuatur ut proficiat, sicut infantiam ipse dicit euacuari in uiri perfecti aetatem. semen quoque euacuatur in fructu: melior quidem fructus semine, sed sine eo esse non potest fructus, [et] non perit, sed multiplicatur semen in fructu[m], et ita euacuatur, sicut prophetia et scientia destruentur. ### English translation (Claude) "But if the ministry of death, formed in letters on stones, was in glory." Which puts sinners to death. Yet he himself elsewhere called the law holy and just and good. "So that the sons of Israel could not look at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, which is being done away." Against the Manichaeans: for the apostle could never compare contraries, that is, proclaim the glory of the ministers of the new testament greater than that of Moses, if there seemed to be no communion between them. "Because of the glory of his face, which is being done away." The glory of the law is done away through the glory of the gospel, but it is done away so as to advance, as he himself says that infancy is done away in the age of the mature man. The seed too is done away in the fruit: the fruit is better than the seed, but without it there can be no fruit, and the seed does not perish but is multiplied in the fruit; and so it is done away, as prophecy and knowledge will be destroyed. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 3:7: quotation, high confidence - Rom 7:12: allusion, high confidence - 1 Cor 13:8: allusion, high confidence - 1 Cor 13:11: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets in, de-, et, maiorem ("greater"), and letters of ista and fructum; left out, "greater" kept for the sense. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 3.7 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:246–247; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/3-7). ## 2 Corinthians 3:8 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-3-8 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:247 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The Spirit's ministry has a lasting glory. ### Latin text Quo modo non magis ministratio spiritus erit in gloria? In gloria nostra, quae ut perfecta non potest [e]uacuari. ### English translation (Claude) "How will the ministry of the Spirit not be more in glory?" In our glory, which, being perfect, cannot be done away. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 3:8: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 3.8 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:247; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/3-8). ## 2 Corinthians 3:9 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-3-9 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:247 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The law condemns; the gospel ministers righteousness by forgiveness. ### Latin text Si enim [ex] ministerio damnationis gloria est. Exposuit quod superius dixerat, litteram occidere, ministrationem [esse] mortis, scilicet damnando peccantes. Multo magis abunda[bi]t ministerium iustitiae [in] gloria. Quod ministrat iustitia[m] dimittendo peccata. ### English translation (Claude) "For if the ministry of condemnation is glory." He has explained what he said above: that the letter kills, that it is a ministry of death, namely by condemning sinners. "Much more does the ministry of righteousness abound in glory." It ministers righteousness by forgiving sins. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 3:9: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets ex, esse, -bi- in abundabit, and in; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 3.9 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:247; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/3-9). ## 2 Corinthians 3:10 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-3-10 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:247–248 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The law's glory pales before the gospel's, as the moon before the sun and Moses and Elijah before Christ. ### Latin text Nam [n]ec glorificatum est quod claruit in hac parte, propter excellentem gloriam. [In] comparatione gloriae euangelicae obumbratur gloria legis, sicut orto sole lumen obtunditur lunae, cum tamen suo tempore magnum habeat fulgorem. hoc ostendit etiam dominus, cum ascendens montem solus splendore solis uisus est radiasse, cum tamen etiam Moyses et Helias uisi in gloria referantur, et ideo uox desuper patris ipsum iam solum praecepit audiri. Si autem quod euacuatur, per gloriam est , multo magis quod manet , in gloria est . Si euacuandum per gloriam datum est testamentum, quanto magis erit quod permanet gloriosum ! ### English translation (Claude) "For what shone in this respect was not glorified, because of the surpassing glory." In comparison with the glory of the gospel the glory of the law is overshadowed, as when the sun has risen the light of the moon is dulled, though in its own time it has great brightness. The Lord showed this too when, going up the mountain, he alone was seen to shine with the brightness of the sun, though Moses and Elijah are also reported to have been seen in glory; and therefore the Father's voice from above commanded that he alone should now be heard. "For if what is done away was through glory, much more what remains is in glory." If the covenant that was to be done away was given through glory, how much more glorious will be that which remains! ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 3:10: quotation, high confidence - 2 Cor 3:11: quotation, high confidence - Matt 17:2: allusion, high confidence - Matt 17:5: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - The section covers 2 Cor 3:10–11. Souter brackets the n of nec (kept for the sense) and In; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 3.10 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:247–248; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/3-10). ## 2 Corinthians 3:12 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-3-12 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:248 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Hope of glory gives the apostles boldness. ### Latin text Habentes igitur talem spem . Talem spem gloriae, quia ‘spe salui facti sumus.’ Multa fiducia utimur. In eo qui nos fecit idoneos. ### English translation (Claude) "Having therefore such hope." Such a hope of glory, because "in hope we were saved." "We use much boldness." In him who made us fit. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 3:12: quotation, high confidence - Rom 8:24: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 3.12 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:248; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/3-12). ## 2 Corinthians 3:13 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-3-13 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:248 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Christians see God's glory unveiled; the law is understood only when Christ is believed. ### Latin text Et non sicut Moyses ponebat uelamen super faciem suam , ut non intenderent filii Istrahel . Non ita facimus, quia [hic] iam omnes uident gloriam [domini] Christiani, sancto spiritu reuelante. Usque ad finem eius. Usque in finem uitae eius. ita et lex non intellegitur usque in finem eius, id est, [usque dum] Christo credatur. Quod euacuatur. Quod uelamen nunc euacuatur in Christo ### English translation (Claude) "And not as Moses put a veil over his face, so that the sons of Israel should not look." We do not do so, because now all Christians see the glory, the Holy Spirit revealing it. "To the end of it." To the end of his life. So too the law is not understood until its end, that is, until Christ is believed. "Which is being done away." Which veil is now done away in Christ. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 3:13: quotation, high confidence - Exod 34:33: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets hic, domini ("of the Lord"), and "until"; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 3.13 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:248; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/3-13). ## 2 Corinthians 3:14 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-3-14 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:248–249 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The veil over the Jews' hearts is removed only in Christ. ### Latin text Sed obtu[n]si sunt sensus eorum usque in hodiernum diem . Nisi enim crediderint, intellegere secundum prophetam omnino non possunt. Id ipsum uelamen in lectione ueteris testamenti manet . Cuius figuram ille gestabat in facie[m]. Quod non reuelatur, quoniam in Christo euacuatur, In Christo, qui finis est legis. Sed usque in hodiernum diem , quotienscumque legitur Moyses , uelamen est positum [ignorantiae] super cor eorum , [Uelamen ignorantiae super cor eorum,] qui[bus] legitur Moyses, id est, Iudaeorum. Cum uero conuersus fuerit ad dominum, auferetur uelamen , Cum conuersus fuerit Iudaeus, sicut Moyses conuertebatur ad [dominum] audiendum. ### English translation (Claude) "But their senses were dulled until this present day." For unless they believe, according to the prophet they cannot understand at all. "The same veil remains in the reading of the old covenant." Whose figure he bore on his face. "Not being uncovered, because it is done away in Christ." In Christ, who is the end of the law. "But until this present day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart." Those to whom Moses is read, that is, the Jews. "But when he turns to the Lord, the veil will be taken away." When the Jew turns, as Moses turned to hear the Lord. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 3:14: quotation, high confidence - 2 Cor 3:15: quotation, high confidence - 2 Cor 3:16: quotation, high confidence - Isa 7:9: allusion, medium confidence - Rom 10:4: allusion, high confidence - Exod 34:34: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - The section covers 2 Cor 3:14–16. "The prophet" is Isa 7:9 in its Greek form ("unless you believe, you will not understand"). Souter brackets ignorantiae ("of ignorance") and a repeated phrase, -bus in quibus, and dominum; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 3.14 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:248–249; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/3-14). ## 2 Corinthians 3:17 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-3-17 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:249 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The Spirit is free and reveals all things to those who have him. ### Latin text Dominus [autem] spiritus est , Nihil in illo obscurum neque uelatum. Ubi autem spiritus domini , ibi libertas. Liber est spiritus, et idcirco non potest uelamen accipere, cum magis omnia ipse reuelet. qui ergo spiritum dei habet, omnia illi nuda sunt et aperta, quia "spiritus omnia scrutatur/ ### English translation (Claude) "The Lord is the Spirit." Nothing in him is obscure or veiled. "And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." The Spirit is free, and therefore cannot receive a veil, since rather he himself reveals all things. So whoever has the Spirit of God, all things are naked and open to him, because "the Spirit searches all things." ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 3:17: quotation, high confidence - 1 Cor 2:10: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets autem; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 3.17 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:249; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/3-17). ## 2 Corinthians 3:18 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/0/#p-3-18 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:249–250 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Beholding Christ's glory, believers are transformed by the Spirit from glory to glory. ### Latin text Nos itaque omnes reuelata facie gloriam domini speculantes, Euidenter et clare domini gloriam contemplamur . Ad eandem imaginem reformamur, Quam Christus ostendit in monte, sicut [al]ibi dicit : "qui transformauit corpus humilitatis nostrae conforme [fieri] corpori claritatis suae/ Siue: Transformamur, cotidie enitimur transformari. A gloria in gloriam , sicut a domini spiritu . A gloria hac in futuram [gloriam] proficimus spiritu domini operante. ### English translation (Claude) "And we all, with unveiled face beholding the glory of the Lord," We contemplate the glory of the Lord evidently and clearly. "Are formed anew into the same image," Which Christ showed on the mountain, as he says elsewhere: "who transformed the body of our lowliness, conformed to the body of his glory." Or: "we are transformed": we strive daily to be transformed. "From glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord." From this glory we advance to the future, the Spirit of the Lord working. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 3:18: quotation, high confidence - Phil 3:21: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets al- in alibi, fieri, and gloriam; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 3.18 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:249–250; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/3-18). ## 2 Corinthians 4:1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-4-1 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:250 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The apostles hold their ministry by mercy and do not lose heart. ### Latin text Habentes autem hanc [am]ministrationem sicut misericordiam consecuti sumus. Quia per nos idonei tanto officio non eramus. Non deficimus. In omnibus tribulationibus nostris. ### English translation (Claude) "Therefore, having this ministry, as we have obtained mercy." Because of ourselves we were not fit for so great an office. "We do not lose heart." In all our tribulations. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 4:1: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets am- in administrationem; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 4.1 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:250; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1). ## 2 Corinthians 4:2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-4-2 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:250 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul preaches without gain or flattery, so that even opponents' consciences bear him witness. ### Latin text Sed abicimus occulta dedecoris. Abicimus ab hominibus occulta uitiorum: dedecus est enim delinquere Christianum. Non ambulantes in astutia. ‘Non turpis lucri gratia ’ praedicantes. Neque adulterantes uerbum domini . Per adulationem excusando peccata, sicut illi qui [causa] laetificandi cor hominis, uerbo dei sermonem uilem admiscent et per terram repentem. Sed in manifestatione ueritatis commendantes nosmet ipsos ad omnem conscientiam hominum. Sed ita manifestum est apud [h]om[i]nes uerum esse quod dicimus, ut etiam eorum conscientia testimonium nobis perhibe[a]t qui resistunt. Coram deo . Non coram hominibus, id est, non propter ipsos eis nos commendamus. ### English translation (Claude) "But we renounce the hidden things of shame." We cast away from people the hidden things of vices: for it is a disgrace for a Christian to sin. "Not walking in craftiness." Preaching "not for the sake of shameful gain." "Nor adulterating the word of the Lord." By excusing sins through flattery, like those who, to gladden the heart of man, mix with the word of God a cheap speech that creeps along the ground. "But by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience." It is so manifest among all that what we say is true that even the conscience of those who resist bears witness to us. "Before God." Not before men; that is, we do not commend ourselves to them for their own sake. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 4:2: quotation, high confidence - Titus 1:11: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets causa, letters that make hominibus into omnibus ("all"), and the a of perhibeat; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 4.2 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:250; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-2). ## 2 Corinthians 4:3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-4-3 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:250–251 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The gospel is veiled only to unbelievers. ### Latin text Sed si [etiam] est opertum euangelium nostrum in hi[i]s qui pereunt. Quasi illi aliquis obiecisset: “[quid] quod et hanc non omnes intellegunt ueritatem?” ‘sed non credentes,’ inquit, ‘uel subdoli, non fideles.’ ibi etiam Iudaeorum plurimi ignorabant. ### English translation (Claude) "But if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled among those who are perishing." As if someone had objected to him: "That not all understand this truth either?" "But the unbelievers," he says, "or the deceitful, not the faithful." There too most of the Jews were ignorant. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 4:3: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets etiam, an i in hiis, and quid; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 4.3 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:250–251; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-3). ## 2 Corinthians 4:4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-4-4 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:251 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God "blinds" unbelievers by permitting what their unbelief deserves; Christ is God's image. ### Latin text In quibus deus huius saeculi excaecauit sensus infidelium , ut non peruiderent lumen euangelii gloriae Christi. Deus saeculi potest ita accipi quo modo ‘princeps mundi,’ quia ipse sibi in infidelibus uindicat principatum; sed propter calumniam hereticorum ita legendum est ut dicamus deum mentes infidelium huius saeculi merito infidelitatis excaecasse, sicut ait saluator: ‘in iudicium ueni in hunc mundum, ut qui non uident uideant, et qui uident caeci fiant,’ et ipse apostolus alibi dixit: ‘quia non crediderunt ueritati, sed consenserunt iniquitati, mittet illis deus spiritum erroris;’ hoc est, dari permittet, quia credere noluerunt; quia et medicus, [si] inoboedientem aegrum deserat, [ipse] ei aegritudinem dicitur prolongasse, cum tota illius culpa sit qui audire contempsit. tamen si rursum roget et obtemperet, potest recipere sanitatem. Qui est imago [inuisibilis] dei. ‘ Imago expressa substantiae’ dei, sicut scriptum est ad Hebreos. ### English translation (Claude) "In whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they should not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ." "The god of this age" can be taken as "the prince of the world," because he claims dominion for himself in unbelievers. But because of the false charge of heretics it should be read so that we say that God blinded the minds of the unbelievers of this age by the merit of their unbelief, as the Savior says: "For judgment I came into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind"; and the apostle himself said elsewhere: "Because they did not believe the truth but consented to iniquity, God will send them a spirit of error"; that is, he will permit it to be given, because they refused to believe. For a physician too, if he deserts a disobedient patient, is said to have prolonged his sickness, though the whole fault is that of the one who scorned to listen. Yet if he asks again and obeys, he can recover health. "Who is the image of God." "The express image of the substance" of God, as it is written to the Hebrews. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 4:4: quotation, high confidence - John 12:31: allusion, high confidence - John 9:39: quotation, high confidence - 2 Thess 2:10: quotation, high confidence - 2 Thess 2:11: quotation, high confidence - Heb 1:3: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Pelagius reads "the god of this age" as God, to deny heretics (who posit a second god) their proof text; God's blinding is explained as permission. Souter brackets si, ipse, and inuisibilis ("invisible"); left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 4.4 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:251; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-4). ## 2 Corinthians 4:5 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-4-5 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:251–252 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul preaches Christ, not himself, serving others like Christ. ### Latin text Non enim nosmet ipsos praedicamus , sed Christum Iesum dominum nostrum. Qui enim commoda propria quaerit, non Christum, sed se praedicat, sicut qui suo uentri deseruiunt. Nos uero seruos uestros p[ropt]er Iesum. Quia uestrae utilitati omnia procuramus, exemplo Christi, qui formam serui accepit, non gloriae nec auaritiae causa docemus. ### English translation (Claude) "For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ our Lord." For he who seeks his own advantage preaches not Christ but himself, like those who serve their own belly. "And ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake." Because we procure everything for your benefit, by the example of Christ, who took the form of a servant; we teach not for glory or greed. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 4:5: quotation, high confidence - Phil 2:7: allusion, high confidence - Rom 16:18: allusion, medium confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 4.5 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:251–252; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-5). ## 2 Corinthians 4:6 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-4-6 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:252 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The creator of light, the Father of Christ, gave the Old Testament too, and shines in believers' hearts. ### Latin text Quoniam [deus], qui dixit de tenebris lumen splendescere. Hoc contra omnes inimicos Ueteris Testamenti, quia a patre Christi sit datum. [Qui] inluxit [in] cordibus nostris ad inluminationem scientiae claritatis dei. [In]luxit primum in cordibus nostris per Christum, ut nos alios inluminare possimus. In facie Christi Iesu. Quae claritas est in facie Christi maior quam Moysi. Siue: In persona Christi nos homines scientia [in]luminamus. ### English translation (Claude) "Because he who said that light should shine out of darkness." This is against all the enemies of the Old Testament, because it was given by the Father of Christ. "Has shone in our hearts for the illumination of the knowledge of the glory of God." He shone first in our hearts through Christ, so that we may be able to illumine others. "In the face of Christ Jesus." This glory is greater in the face of Christ than in Moses'. Or: in the person of Christ we men give light by knowledge. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 4:6: quotation, high confidence - Gen 1:3: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets deus, Qui, in, and In- in inluxit and inluminamus; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 4.6 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:252; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-6). ## 2 Corinthians 4:7 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-4-7 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:252 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The apostles carry grace in frail bodies so that the power is seen to be God's. ### Latin text Habemus autem. Iam hinc incipit ostendere qua re tanta uel talia patiantur, quia de hoc quoque illis pseudo-apostoli detrahebant. Thesaurum istum in uasis fictilibus, ut excellentia uirtu[ti]s dei sit, et non ex nobis. Thesaurum gratiae spiritalis in fragili corpore baiulamus, in quo, etiam cum alios sanemus, ipsi aliquotiens infirmamur, ut quod faci[e]mus, non nostrae uirtu[ti]s, sed dei esse noscatur. ### English translation (Claude) "But we have." Here he begins to show why they suffer such great things, because the false apostles also disparaged them over this. "This treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power may be of God and not from us." We carry the treasure of spiritual grace in a fragile body, in which, even when we heal others, we ourselves are sometimes sick, so that what we do may be known to be not of our power but of God's. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 4:7: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets -ti- in uirtutis twice and the e of faciemus; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 4.7 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:252; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-7). ## 2 Corinthians 4:8 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-4-8 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:252–253 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Hope keeps the persecuted apostles from despair. ### Latin text In omnibus pressuram patimur, sed non angustiamur. Persecutionem quidem patimur, [sed] per solacium futurae spei non angustiamur, sed amplius dilatamur. Aporiamur , sed non destituimur[: ### English translation (Claude) "In all things we suffer affliction, but are not distressed." We do suffer persecution, but through the comfort of future hope we are not distressed but rather enlarged. "We are perplexed, but not destitute;" ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 4:8: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets sed; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 4.8 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:252–253; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-8). ## 2 Corinthians 4:9 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-4-9 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:253 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The apostles are afflicted but never forsaken by God. ### Latin text persecutionem patimur , sed non derelinquimur]. Caede et obprobriis, sed diuino non desolamur auxilio. [ Humiliamur , sed non con fundimur ;] tribulamur, sed non perimus. Usque ad desperationem uitae uenimus, sed non morimur: [sed, et si morimur,] non perimus. ### English translation (Claude) ["we suffer persecution, but are not forsaken."] By beatings and reproaches, but we are not left without divine help. "We are troubled, but do not perish." We come to the point of despairing of life, but we do not die: we do not perish. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 4:9: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the lemma of 2 Cor 4:9a, kept in brackets because the comment explains it; and an extra lemma ("We are humbled, but not confounded") and "but even if we die," left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 4.9 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:253; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-9). ## 2 Corinthians 4:10 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-4-10 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:253 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Suffering for the church, the apostles share Christ's dying so as to share his life. ### Latin text Semper mortificationem Iesu in corpore nostro circumferentes, ut et uita Iesu [ Christi ] in corpore nostro manifestetur. Per tribulationes, sicut alibi ait: ‘cotidie morior per uestram gloriam.’ ergo ‘si commorimur,’ inquit, ‘et conuiuemus’: illi autem qui nolunt commori, nec conuiuent. Semper enim nos qui uiuimus, in mortem tradimur . Quam diu ‘sumus in corpore.’ Propter lesum , ut et uita Iesu manifestetur in mortali carne nostra. Non propter opera mala, sed propter corpus eius, id est, ecclesiam, patimur quod passus est ille pro nobis, ut uita eius, hoc est, aeterna, manifestetur in carne nostra mortali, ut possit fieri inmortalis: ‘nondum’ enim ‘apparuit quid erimus.’ ### English translation (Claude) "Always carrying about in our body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body." Through tribulations, as he says elsewhere: "I die daily, by your glory." So "if we die with him," he says, "we shall also live with him"; but those who are unwilling to die with him will not live with him either. "For we who live are always being handed over to death." As long as "we are in the body." "For Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh." Not for evil works, but for his body, that is, the church, we suffer what he suffered for us, so that his life, that is, eternal life, may be manifested in our mortal flesh, so that it may become immortal: for "it has not yet appeared what we shall be." ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 4:10: quotation, high confidence - 2 Cor 4:11: quotation, high confidence - 1 Cor 15:31: quotation, high confidence - 2 Tim 2:11: quotation, high confidence - 2 Cor 5:6: quotation, high confidence - 1 John 3:2: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The section covers 2 Cor 4:10–11. Souter brackets Christi; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 4.10 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:253; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-10). ## 2 Corinthians 4:12 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-4-12 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:253 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul asks whether death will always be theirs and life the Corinthians'. ### Latin text Ergo mors in nobis operatur, uita autem in uobis. Numquid ergo semper in nobis erit mors, et in uobis uita et futura et praesens? ### English translation (Claude) "So death works in us, but life in you." Will death, then, always be in us, and life in you, both future and present? ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 4:12: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 4.12 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:253; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-12). ## 2 Corinthians 4:13 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-4-13 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:253–254 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul suffers because of his faith, against false apostles who avoided persecution. ### Latin text Habentes autem eundem spiritum fidei, [ sic]ut dictum est. Increpat eos quia falsis apostolis [dicentibus] crediderunt idcirco Paulum passionibus subiacere, quia fidei sit minoris, se uero [per] fidem tribulari non posse, [e] contrario ergo ostendit se propter fidem talia sustinere, illos uero causas odii non habere per adulationem atque desidiam. unde ad Galatas ait : ‘qui uolunt in carne placere, tantum ut crucis Christi persecutionem minime patiantur.’ Credidi, propter quod locutus sum , et nos credi[di]mus, ideo quod et loquimur. Hoc testimonio credere se probat. si enim ille ideo quia credidit loquebatur — nemo enim san[a]e mentis alteri adfirmet quod ipse non credit — , ergo ‘et nos qui loquimur,’ inquit, ‘credimus, qui etiam propter ea tribulamur.’ ### English translation (Claude) "But having the same spirit of faith, as it is written." He rebukes them because they believed the false apostles that Paul was subject to sufferings because he was of lesser faith, but that they themselves could not be afflicted because of faith. So he shows, on the contrary, that he endures such things because of faith, and that they gave no cause for hatred because of their flattery and sloth. Hence he says to the Galatians: "Those who wish to please in the flesh, only so that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ." "I believed, therefore I spoke; we also believe, and therefore we also speak." By this testimony he proves that he believes. For if that man spoke because he believed (for no one of sound mind would affirm to another what he himself does not believe), then "we too who speak," he says, "believe, we who are also afflicted for this reason." ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 4:13: quotation, high confidence - Gal 6:12: quotation, high confidence - Ps 116:10 (115:1 LXX): quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets sic-, dicentibus, per, e, -di- in credidimus, and the a of sanae; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 4.13 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:253–254; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-13). ## 2 Corinthians 4:14 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-4-14 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:254 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God will raise those who die for Christ as he raised Jesus. ### Latin text Scientes quoniam qui suscitauit [ dominum ] Iesum. Firmiter tenentes hanc fidem, a qua nec morte diuellimur. Et nos cum Iesu suscitabit et constituet uobiscum. Sicut illum suscitauit, [et nos] etiam, si pro eo mortui fuerimus. ### English translation (Claude) "Knowing that he who raised Jesus." Holding firmly to this faith, from which we are not torn even by death. "Will raise us also with Jesus and present us with you." As he raised him, so also us, if we die for him. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 4:14: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets dominum and "us also" in the comment; left out, "us" kept for the sense. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 4.14 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:254; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-14). ## 2 Corinthians 4:15 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-4-15 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:254–255 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul's sufferings serve the spread of grace and thanksgiving. ### Latin text Omnia enim propter uos. Omnia ideo patimur quia fideliter uestram salutem quaerimus et optamus. Ut gratia abundans per plurimam [gratiarum] actione[m] abundet in gloria[m ] dei. Hoc habet sensus, ut per multitudinem credentium propter gratiam abundantem et gratiarum actio abundet in gloria[m] dei. ### English translation (Claude) "For all things are for your sake." We suffer everything because we faithfully seek and desire your salvation. "So that grace, abounding through the thanksgiving of many, may abound to the glory of God." The sense is that through the multitude of believers, because of abounding grace, thanksgiving also may abound to the glory of God. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 4:15: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets gratiarum and the m of actionem and gloriam; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 4.15 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:254–255; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-15). ## 2 Corinthians 4:16 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-4-16 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:255 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The body wastes away but the soul is renewed by hope. ### Latin text Propter quod non deficimus. Propter uos et [propter] gloriam dei in omnibus tribulationibus et obprobriis non cessamus. Licet enim exterior noster homo corrumpitur , sed interior renouatur de die in diem . Licet corpus passionum iniuriis corrumpatur, anima tamen spe futurorum cotidie confirmatur ad omnia sustinenda. ### English translation (Claude) "Therefore we do not lose heart." For your sake and for God's glory we do not give up in all tribulations and reproaches. "For though our outer man is being corrupted, yet the inner is renewed day by day." Though the body is corrupted by the injuries of sufferings, yet the soul is strengthened daily by the hope of things to come, to endure all things. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 4:16: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets propter; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 4.16 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:255; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-16). ## 2 Corinthians 4:17 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-4-17 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:255 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Present affliction is light compared with the weight of eternal glory. ### Latin text Nam quod praesens est temporale et leue pressurae nostrae . Praesens tribulatio, quantolibet tempore perseuerans, ad conparationem inmensae aeternae[que] gloriae et breuis et facilis est, sicut ad Romanos ait: ‘existimo enim quod non sunt [con]dign[a]e passiones huius temporis ad futuram gloriam.’ Supra modum in sublimitate[m]. Quia nulla conparatio esse potest. Aeternum gloriae pondus operatur in nobis . Quia illud leue dixerat, ideo hic pondus posuit, seruans metaforae stateram. Siue: Quod tribulationum pondus, quae supra modum sunt in praesenti, in sublimitate[m] gloriae aeternae proficiat. ### English translation (Claude) "For what is present, momentary and light, of our affliction." Present tribulation, however long it lasts, is brief and easy compared with immense and eternal glory, as he says to the Romans: "For I consider that the sufferings of this time are not worthy of the future glory." "Beyond measure, unto sublimity." Because there can be no comparison. "Works for us an eternal weight of glory." Because he had called the affliction "light," he put "weight" here, keeping the balance of the metaphor. Or: that the weight of tribulations, which are beyond measure in the present, may advance into the sublimity of eternal glory. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 4:17: quotation, high confidence - Rom 8:18: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets -que, con- in condignae, and the a of condignae; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 4.17 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:255; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-17). ## 2 Corinthians 4:18 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-4-18 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:255–256 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Visible goods and ills pass away and should not move us. ### Latin text Non contemplantes [nobis] quae uidentur, sed quae non uidentur : quae enim uidentur temporalia sunt , nam quae non uidentur aeterna sunt. De uisibilibus nec bonis mouemur nec malis, quia utraque fini[en]tur. ### English translation (Claude) "While we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen: for the things that are seen are temporal, but the things that are not seen are eternal." We are moved by visible things neither good nor bad, because both will come to an end. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 4:18: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets nobis and -en- in finientur; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 4.18 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:255–256; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-18). ## 2 Corinthians 5:1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-5-1 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:256 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The dissolved body will be raised incorruptible and spiritual. ### Latin text Scimus autem quoniam si terrestris domus nostra huius habitationis dissoluatur, quod aedificationem ex deo habemus. Quasi aliquis [ei] dixisset: “quando istud erit, cum sciam me esse [mortalem]?” ideo gloriam resurrectionis induxit. [‘domus nostra,’ inquit,] terrenum corpus, in quo in hoc saeculo adhuc corruptibiliter habitamus, si ante aduentum domini uel passionibus uel conditione naturae fuerit dissolutum, caelestem incorruptionem ex deo corpore [re]uiuescente sumemus. Domum non manu factam , aeternam in caelis. Quia animale corpus, quod dei quodam modo manu dicitur esse plasmatum, hoc ipsum spiritale fiet per spiritum. ### English translation (Claude) "For we know that if our earthly house of this dwelling is dissolved, we have a building from God." As if someone had said to him: "When will that be, since I know that I am mortal?" Therefore he brought in the glory of the resurrection. The earthly body, in which we still dwell corruptibly in this age, if it is dissolved before the Lord's coming, whether by sufferings or by the condition of nature, we will receive heavenly incorruption from God, as the body comes back to life. "A house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." Because the animal body, which is said to have been fashioned in a way by the hand of God, will itself become spiritual through the Spirit. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 5:1: quotation, high confidence - 1 Cor 15:44: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets ei, mortalem, "'our house,' he says," and re- in reuiuescente; left out, "mortal" kept for the sense. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 5.1 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:256; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/5-1). ## 2 Corinthians 5:2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-5-2 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:256–257 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Believers labor to be clothed with the heavenly dwelling. ### Latin text Etenim in hoc ingemescimus , habitationem nostram , quae de caelo est, superindu[c]ere cupientes. Gemitus hic pro labore accipitur, quia cum gemitu laboratur, sicut et partus ponitur pro dolore. ad hoc ergo laboramus ut illa superindui mereamur. ### English translation (Claude) "For in this we groan, longing to be clothed over with our dwelling which is from heaven." "Groaning" is taken here for labor, because labor is done with groaning, just as "childbirth" is put for pain. So we labor for this, that we may deserve to be clothed over with it. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 5:2: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the c of superinducere; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 5.2 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:256–257; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/5-2). ## 2 Corinthians 5:3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-5-3 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:257 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: One must not be found naked of faith and good works. ### Latin text Si tamen expoliati, non nudi inueniamur. Si tamen expoliati corpore, nudi non inueniamur a fide uel opere pietatis. ### English translation (Claude) "If indeed, having been stripped, we are not found naked." If indeed, stripped of the body, we are not found naked of faith or of the work of godliness. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 5:3: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 5.3 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:257; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/5-3). ## 2 Corinthians 5:4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-5-4 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:257 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Mortality will be swallowed by life, as iron glows with fire. ### Latin text Etenim cum sumus in corpore isto ingemescimus grauati, eo quod nolumus expoliari, sed superuestiri. Nam et qui uiui inuenientur hoc laborant, ut non expolientur ab igni cum peccatoribus, dum omnia coeperint elementa consumi, sed [ut] cum iustis [inmortalitate super]indui mereantur. Ut absorbeatur mortale hoc a uita. Quod absorbetur non apparet, cum sit sicut ferrum, si mittatur in ignem, et manente eius materia totum sit ignis : nam et splendorem et calorem [ipsius] ignis adsumit. ### English translation (Claude) "For while we are in this body we groan, being burdened, because we do not wish to be stripped but to be clothed over." For those too who will be found alive labor for this: that they may not be stripped by the fire with the sinners, when all the elements begin to be consumed, but may deserve to be clothed over with the righteous. "So that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life." What is swallowed up does not appear, as when iron is put into fire: its matter remains, but the whole is fire, for it takes on both the brightness and the heat of the fire. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 5:4: quotation, high confidence - 2 Pet 3:10: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets ut, "with immortality ... over-," and ipsius; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 5.4 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:257; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/5-4). ## 2 Corinthians 5:5 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-5-5 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:257 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God, who gave the Spirit as pledge, will not let his temple perish. ### Latin text Qui autem perficit nos in hoc ipsum deus. D[e]um hoc dicit facere, ne cui inpossibile uideretur. Qui dedit nobis pignus spiritus. [Qui iam nobis dedit pignus spiritus] ut sciamus quia templum sui spiritus perire non pati[e]tur. ### English translation (Claude) "And he who prepares us for this very thing is God." He says that God does this, lest it seem impossible to anyone. "Who gave us the pledge of the Spirit." So that we may know that he will not allow the temple of his Spirit to perish. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 5:5: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the e of deum and of patietur, and a repeated lemma; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 5.5 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:257; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/5-5). ## 2 Corinthians 5:6 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-5-6 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:257 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: In the body we are away from the Lord. ### Latin text Audentes igitur semper et scientes. Ideo hoc audemus petere. Quia dum sumus in corpore, peregrinamur a domino: ### English translation (Claude) "Always confident, therefore, and knowing." Therefore we dare to ask this. "That while we are in the body, we are away from the Lord:" ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 5:6: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 5.6 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:257; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/5-6). ## 2 Corinthians 5:7 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-5-7 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:257–258 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: As pilgrims, Christians should be content with necessities and long for their homeland. ### Latin text per fidem enim ambulamus, et non per speciem. Peregrinamur, qui[a] adhuc non sumus in hereditate paterna. ut peregrini ergo non debemus de huius saeculi rebus magnopere curare, sed necessariis contenti desiderium omne et studium perueniendi ad patriam habeamus, quam fide adhuc speramus necdum specie possidemus. ### English translation (Claude) "for we walk by faith, and not by sight." We are pilgrims, because we are not yet in our Father's inheritance. As pilgrims, then, we ought not to care greatly for the things of this age, but, content with necessities, have all our desire and zeal for reaching our homeland, which we still hope for by faith and do not yet possess by sight. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 5:7: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the a of quia; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 5.7 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:257–258; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/5-7). ## 2 Corinthians 5:8 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-5-8 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:258 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul prefers to be away from the body and present with the Lord until the resurrection. ### Latin text Audemus autem et consentimus. Prorsus hoc audenter eligimus, sicut alibi ait : ‘ dissolui et cum Christo esse multo magis melius.’ Magis peregrinari de corpore . Bene ait peregrinari a corpore, quia ad id sumus iterum regressuri. Et adesse ad dominum. Quamquam creatori suo nulla creatura absens sit, nos tamen quodam modo illi tunc magis praesentes erimus, ut [et] iam perfecti, cum a carnis fuerimus fragilitate seiuncti. Siue: Quod secundum nos deo praesentes erimus, quia secundum illum absentes esse numquam possumus. ### English translation (Claude) "But we are confident and consent." We choose this quite boldly, as he says elsewhere: "To depart and be with Christ is much better." "Rather to be away from the body." He says well "to be away from the body," because we will return to it again. "And to be present with the Lord." Although no creature is absent from its creator, yet we will then in a way be more present to him, as now perfect, when we are separated from the frailty of the flesh. Or: as far as we are concerned we will be present to God, because as far as he is concerned we can never be absent. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 5:8: quotation, high confidence - Phil 1:23: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets et; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 5.8 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:258; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/5-8). ## 2 Corinthians 5:9 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-5-9 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:258 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Christians strive now to be what they will be in the kingdom. ### Latin text Et ideo conitimur siue absentes siue praesentes placere illi . Iam modo tales esse [actu] conamur quales futuri sumus in regno, natura incorruptibiles sine dubio et perfecti. ### English translation (Claude) "And therefore we strive, whether absent or present, to please him." Even now we strive to be such as we shall be in the kingdom: incorruptible in nature, without doubt, and perfect. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 5:9: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets actu ("in act"); left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 5.9 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:258; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/5-9). ## 2 Corinthians 5:10 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-5-10 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:258–259 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: All will be judged by Christ for what they did in the body. ### Latin text Omnes enim nos manifestari oportet ante tribunal Christi. Pro magnitudine potentiae sedentis magnitudo tribunalis et terror iudicii aestimanda sunt. Ut reportet unus quisque propria corporis , prout gessit. Quia de resurrectionis tempore fecerat mentionem, uult ostendere animam omnia per corpus operatam. Siue bonum siue malum. ‘Uenite, benedicti’ et: ‘discedite a me, maledicti.’ ### English translation (Claude) "For we must all be made manifest before the judgment seat of Christ." The greatness of the tribunal and the terror of the judgment are to be estimated by the greatness of the power of the one who sits on it. "So that each one may receive the things proper to the body, according to what he has done." Because he had mentioned the time of the resurrection, he wishes to show that the soul did everything through the body. "Whether good or evil." "Come, you blessed," and: "Depart from me, you cursed." ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 5:10: quotation, high confidence - Matt 25:34: quotation, high confidence - Matt 25:41: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 5.10 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:258–259; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/5-10). ## 2 Corinthians 5:11 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-5-11 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:259 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Fearing judgment, Paul persuades others and trusts the Corinthians' consciences. ### Latin text Scientes ergo timorem domini , hominibus suademus , deo autem manifesti sumus. Scientes quantus metus sit diuini iudicii, hominibus suademus ut caueant: deo autem manifesti sumus, si non et nos formidamus. Spero autem et in conscientiis uestris nos manifestos esse. Quamuis male uobis suggestum sit de nobis, puto tamen quod non recipiat conscientia uestra de nobis aliter suspicari quam nouit, nec possit aliis magis fidem adcommodare quam sibi. ### English translation (Claude) "Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are manifest to God." Knowing how great the fear of the divine judgment is, we persuade men to be careful; but it is manifest to God whether we ourselves do not fear it. "But I hope that we are also manifest in your consciences." Although evil has been suggested to you about us, I think your conscience does not allow you to suspect anything of us other than what it knows, nor can it give more credit to others than to itself. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 5:11: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 5.11 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:259; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/5-11). ## 2 Corinthians 5:12 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-5-12 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:259 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul gives the Corinthians grounds to answer false apostles who boast in appearances. ### Latin text Non igitur nos commendamus uobis. Quia superius dixerat : ‘ incipimus nosmet ipsos commendare? ’ Sed occasionem damus [uobis] gloriandi pro nobis. Contra pseudo-apostolos, qui eis primo per detrac[ta]tionem odium [apostoli] uolebant inserere, ut eis fides facilius haberetur. Ut habeatis ad eos qui in facie gloriantur , et non in corde. Ut habeatis ad eos qui in carnalibus et uisibilibus, et non in conscientiis gloriantur, quid respondere possitis contra ea quae [de] nostra obtrectatione confingunt, ut etiam sui cordis testimonio reuinca[n]tur. ### English translation (Claude) "We do not, then, commend ourselves to you." Because he had said above: "Are we beginning to commend ourselves?" "But we give occasion to glory on our behalf." Against the false apostles, who wanted first to plant hatred in them through disparagement, so that they themselves might be more easily believed. "So that you may have something toward those who glory in face and not in heart." So that you may have something to answer those who glory in carnal and visible things and not in consciences, against the things they invent in disparaging us, so that they may be refuted even by the testimony of their own heart. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 5:12: quotation, high confidence - 2 Cor 3:1: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets uobis, -ta- in detractationem, apostoli ("of the apostle"), de, and the n of reuincantur; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 5.12 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:259; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/5-12). ## 2 Corinthians 5:13 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-5-13 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:259–260 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Whatever the apostles' state, it is for God or for the church. ### Latin text Siue enim mente excidimus , deo. Dicebant enim de illis: “si eorum esset memoria coram deo, numquam talia paterentur.” quidam autem aliter dicunt: siue in exstasi sumus, deo, siue nostro sensu loquimur, nobis. Siue sobrii sumus , uobis. Siue abstinentes, propter uos. ### English translation (Claude) "For whether we are out of our mind, it is for God." For they said of them: "If they were remembered before God, they would never suffer such things." Some, however, say otherwise: whether we are in ecstasy, it is for God; whether we speak by our own sense, it is for us. "Whether we are sober, it is for you." Whether abstaining, it is for your sake. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 5:13: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 5.13 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:259–260; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/5-13). ## 2 Corinthians 5:14 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-5-14 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:260 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Christ's love compels the apostles to suffer for his body. ### Latin text Caritas enim Christi urget nos , iudicantes hoc. Necesse est nos uel aliquatenus uicem eius rependere caritati [naleamus], id est, [ut] pro eius corpore patiamur qui mori pro nostra morte dignatus est. Quod unus pro omnibus mortuus est, ergo omnes mortui sunt, ### English translation (Claude) "For the love of Christ compels us, judging this." It is necessary that we repay his love at least to some extent, that is, that we suffer for the body of him who deigned to die for our death. "That one died for all, therefore all died," ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 5:14: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets ualeamus and ut; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 5.14 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:260; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/5-14). ## 2 Corinthians 5:15 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-5-15 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:260 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Christ, the spotless sacrifice, died for all so that they might live for him. ### Latin text et pro omnibus mortuus est. Solus inuentus est qui ut inmaculata hostia pro omnibus qui erant in peccatis mortui offer[r]etur. Ut [et] qui uiuunt , iam non sibi uiuant, sed ei qui pro ipsi[s] mortuus est . Ei debemus uitam nostram qui illam in omnibus sua morte seruauit. si quis ergo suam potius quam dei uoluntatem facit sibi uiuit, non illi. unde [ipse] dominus ait: ‘si quis uult post me uenire, abneget se[met] ipsum sibi,’ et cetera. Et resurrexit. Propter calumniam semper morti resurrectionem adiuncxit. ### English translation (Claude) "and he died for all." He alone was found who could be offered as an unblemished sacrifice for all who were dead in sins. "So that those who live may no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them." We owe our life to him who preserved it in all by his death. So if anyone does his own will rather than God's, he lives for himself, not for him. Hence the Lord says: "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself," and the rest. "And rose." Because of false charges he always joined the resurrection to the death. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 5:15: quotation, high confidence - Matt 16:24: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the r of offerretur, et, ipse, and -met; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 5.15 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:260; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/5-15). ## 2 Corinthians 5:16 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-5-16 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:260–261 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: After the resurrection, Christians no longer follow carnal ceremonies or think of Christ carnally. ### Latin text Itaque nos neminem nouimus [ex hoc] secundum carnem. Neminem nouimus carnaliter circumcisum, [omnia] et carnales caerimonias obseruantem; nullius ueterum imitamur exemplum. Et si cognouimus secundum carnem Christum , sed nunc iam non nouimus. Quia eis exempla ueterum proponeba[n]t, et Christum carnaliter circumcisum cum Iudaeis omnia celebrasse. sed nunc iam ista non nouimus, quia post resurrectionem eius nouum [est] testamentum. Aliter : Qui infirmi sunt, carnaliter credunt Christo: perfecti uero intellegunt iam post resurrectionem nihil inbecillitatis in eo esse carnalis. ### English translation (Claude) "So we know no one according to the flesh." We know no one carnally circumcised and observing carnal ceremonies; we imitate the example of none of the ancients. "Even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him so no longer." Because they put before them the examples of the ancients, and that Christ, carnally circumcised, had celebrated everything with the Jews. But now we no longer know these things, because after his resurrection there is a new covenant. Otherwise: those who are weak believe in Christ carnally; but the perfect understand that after the resurrection there is nothing of fleshly weakness in him. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 5:16: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "from this," omnia, and est; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 5.16 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:260–261; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/5-16). ## 2 Corinthians 5:17 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-5-17 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:261 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The believer is a new creation, living in a new way. ### Latin text Si qua ergo in Christo, noua creatura , uetera transierunt; ecce facta sunt [i omnia ] noua. Si quis credit in Christo, noua est creatura, intellegens uetera suo tempore fuisse dispuncta et [a] modo nouo more uiuendum. ### English translation (Claude) "So if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold, they have become new." If anyone believes in Christ, he is a new creation, understanding that the old things were cancelled in their own time and that from now on one must live in a new way. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 5:17: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets omnia ("all things") and a; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 5.17 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:261; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/5-17). ## 2 Corinthians 5:18 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-5-18 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:261 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: One God gave old and new precepts; he reconciled us through Christ's teaching and example. ### Latin text Omnia autem ex deo. Quia et iam praecepta innouata sunt, tamen et noua et uetera ab uno deo pro diuersitate sunt temporum dispensata. [Gratias autem deo] qui reconciliauit nos sibi , Quia peccando ab eo fueramus auersi. Per [Iesum] Christum, Per Christi doctrinam pariter et exemplum. Et dedit nobis ministerium reconciliationis, Ut et nos alios reconciliare possemus. ### English translation (Claude) "But all things are from God." Because, although the precepts have been renewed, yet both new and old were dispensed by the one God according to the difference of times. "Who reconciled us to himself," Because by sinning we had turned away from him. "Through Christ," Through Christ's teaching and example alike. "And gave us the ministry of reconciliation," So that we too might be able to reconcile others. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 5:18: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "But thanks be to God" and Iesum; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 5.18 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:261; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/5-18). ## 2 Corinthians 5:19 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-5-19 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:261–262 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God is present everywhere, in the saints by grace, and in Christ by the fullness of divinity; he forgives by faith alone. ### Latin text Quoniam quidem deus erat in Christo, Tribus modis inesse deum legimus: secundum infinitatem omni creaturae, sicut ipse dicit per prophetam: ‘nonne caelum et terram ego impleo? ’ : secundum sanctificationem et peculiarem inhabitationem in sanctis, iuxta illud : et inhabitabo in illis’: secundum plenitudinem diuinitatis in Christo, dicente alibi apostolo: ‘quia in ipso [in]habitat omnis plenitudo diuinitatis corporaliter.’ Mundum reconcilians sibi, non reputans illis delicta ipsorum, Hoc est, per solam fidem ignoscens. Et ponens in nobis uerbum reconciliantis ### English translation (Claude) "For indeed God was in Christ," We read that God is present in three ways: by infinity, in every creature, as he himself says through the prophet: "Do I not fill heaven and earth?"; by sanctification and a special indwelling, in the saints, according to the saying: "And I will dwell in them"; and by the fullness of divinity, in Christ, as the apostle says elsewhere: "For in him dwells all the fullness of the divinity bodily." "Reconciling the world to himself, not counting their offenses against them," That is, forgiving by faith alone. "And placing in us the word of reconciliation" ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 5:19: quotation, high confidence - Jer 23:24: quotation, high confidence - 2 Cor 6:16: quotation, high confidence - Col 2:9: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - "By faith alone" translates per solam fidem. Souter brackets in- in inhabitat; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 5.19 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:261–262; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/5-19). ## 2 Corinthians 5:20 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-5-20 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:262 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The apostles speak for God in Christ's place. ### Latin text pro Christo , pro quo legatione fungimur. Ut pro Christo nos reconciliemus homines deo : Christi enim uice legati sumus dei. Tamquam deo exhortante per nos. Id est, non ex nobis loquimur, sed ex deo. Orantes pro Christo reconciliari deo . Hoc est, uice Christi. ### English translation (Claude) "for Christ, for whom we act as ambassadors." That for Christ we may reconcile men to God: for in Christ's place we are ambassadors of God. "As though God were exhorting through us." That is, we do not speak from ourselves but from God. "Beseeching for Christ, be reconciled to God." That is, in Christ's place. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 5:20: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 5.20 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:262; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/5-20). ## 2 Corinthians 5:21 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-5-21 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:262 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Christ, offered for sin, was called "sin" like the sin offering; grace is received in vain without progress. ### Latin text Eum qui [cum] non cognouerit peccatum , pro nobis peccatum fecit. Pater pro nobis Christum, qui peccatum nesciebat, peccatum eum fecit: hoc est, sicut hostia pro peccato oblata peccatum uocabatur in lege, ut in Leuitico scriptum est: ‘et inponet manum super caput peccati sui,’ ita et Christus pro peccatis nostris oblatus peccati nomen accepit. Ut nos efficeremur iustitia dei in ipsum. Non nostra, nec [in] nobis, Adiuuantes autem simul et obsecrantes. Uerbo uos adiuuantes. Ne in uacuum gratiam dei excipiatis. In uacuum gratiam dei recipit qui in nouo testamento non nouus est, hoc est, nihil in illo proficit. ### English translation (Claude) "Him who knew no sin he made sin for us." The Father made Christ, who knew no sin, sin for us: that is, as the victim offered for sin was called sin in the law, as it is written in Leviticus: "He shall lay his hand on the head of his sin," so too Christ, offered for our sins, received the name of sin. "So that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." Not ours, nor in ourselves. "But working together and beseeching." Helping you by word. "That you not receive the grace of God in vain." He receives the grace of God in vain who is not new in the new covenant, that is, makes no progress in it. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 5:21: quotation, high confidence - 2 Cor 6:1: quotation, high confidence - Lev 4:4: quotation, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The section covers 2 Cor 5:21–6:1. The quotation is Lev 4:4 in a Latin form. Souter brackets cum and in; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 5.21 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:262; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/5-21). ## 2 Corinthians 6:2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-6-2 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:262–263 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: This life is the only time for salvation; after judgment no one can work or repent. ### Latin text Ait enim: Tempore acceptabili exaudiui te, et in die salutis adiuui te. Acceptum tempus ad exaudiendum et in salute miserandum in hac uita praesenti e[s]t, sicut ait saluator : ‘ ambulate, dum lucem habetis, ne uos tenebrae conprehendant.’ Ecce nunc tempus acceptabile. Sicut alibi ‘ ergo dum tempus habemus’ ait ‘ operemur quod bonum est.’ dies autem ideo dicitur haec uita, quia [ad] operandum est ap[er]ta, et concluditur nocte iudicii, quae [dies] tenebrae est [peccatoribus], non lux, in qua[m] iam nemo poterit operari. aestati quoque adsimilatur hoc tempus, in cuius conparatione[m] formica dicitur hiemem sperare uenturam. Ecce nunc dies salutis. Modo solum possumus inuenire salutem, quia iuxta prophetae testimonium in inferno nemo confitebitur. ### English translation (Claude) "For he says: In an acceptable time I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you." The acceptable time for hearing and for showing mercy unto salvation is in this present life, as the Savior says: "Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you." "Behold, now is the acceptable time." As he says elsewhere: "So while we have time, let us do what is good." This life is called day because it is open for working, and it is closed by the night of judgment, which is darkness, not light, in which no one will be able to work any longer. This time is also likened to summer, in comparison with which the ant is said to expect the coming of winter. "Behold, now is the day of salvation." Only now can we find salvation, because according to the prophet's testimony no one will confess in hell. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 6:2: quotation, high confidence - Isa 49:8: quotation, high confidence - John 12:35: quotation, high confidence - Gal 6:10: quotation, high confidence - John 9:4: allusion, medium confidence - Prov 6:8: allusion, medium confidence - Ps 6:5 (6:6 LXX): allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the s of est, ad, -er- in aperta, dies, peccatoribus ("to sinners"), and the m of quam and conparationem; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 6.2 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:262–263; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/6-2). ## 2 Corinthians 6:3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-6-3 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:263 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Ministers must give no offense, lest the fault be blamed on God's law. ### Latin text Nemini dantes ullam offensionem , ut inreprehensibile sit ministerium nostrum. Nemo nostro offendatur exemplo, ne non tam [nostrum] uitium putetur esse quam legis. ### English translation (Claude) "Giving no offense to anyone, so that our ministry may be blameless." Let no one be offended by our example, lest the fault be thought to be not so much ours as the law's. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 6:3: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets nostrum; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 6.3 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:263; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/6-3). ## 2 Corinthians 6:4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-6-4 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:263–264 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God's ministers imitate his patience in every hardship. ### Latin text Sed in omnibus exhibeamus nosmet ipsos . Non in aliquantis. omnia ergo [huius causae] in nostra sunt potestate. Sicut dei ministros . Dei ministri deum debent, prout possibile est, imitari, ut ex actu cognoscantur dei esse cultores. unde [ait] alibi : ‘ portate deum in corpore uestro,’ sicut ille se ab [h]om[i]nibus patitur blasphemari, et tamen in praesenti uita ingratis etiam sua beneficia non denegat. In multa patientia. Non in parua, nec in modica. In tribulationibus. Omnis laesio tribulatio est. In necessitatibus. Omne quod necesse est feramus ut necesse est. In angustiis. Angustia est omnis egentia. In plagis, in carceribus , in lacerationibus , in laboribus. Manuum ### English translation (Claude) "But in all things let us show ourselves" Not in some. So all things are in our power. "As ministers of God." The ministers of God ought to imitate God as far as possible, so that they may be known by their conduct to be worshippers of God. Hence elsewhere: "Bear God in your body"; as he allows himself to be blasphemed by all, and yet in the present life does not deny his benefits even to the ungrateful. "In much patience." Not in little, nor in moderate. "In tribulations." Every hurt is tribulation. "In necessities." Let us bear everything that is necessary as necessary. "In distresses." Distress is every want. "In beatings, in prisons, in lacerations, in labors." Of the hands ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 6:4: quotation, high confidence - 2 Cor 6:5: quotation, high confidence - 1 Cor 6:20: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "of this kind," ait, and letters that make hominibus into omnibus ("all"); left out. The comment on "labors" continues in the next section. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 6.4 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:263–264; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/6-4). ## 2 Corinthians 6:5 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-6-5 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:264 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Fasts are numbered among the virtues. ### Latin text uel discursuum. In uigiliis. Non minus mentis quam corporis. In ieiuniis. Notandum ieiunia cum uirtutibus numerari. ### English translation (Claude) or of travels. "In vigils." No less of the mind than of the body. "In fastings." It is to be noted that fasts are counted among the virtues. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 6:5: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 6.5 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:264; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/6-5). ## 2 Corinthians 6:6 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-6-6 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:264 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Chastity of mind, knowledge, patience, gentle speech, and real love mark God's ministers. ### Latin text In castitate. Ilia est uera castitas quae nec mente polluitur. In scientia. Notandum quod [con]scientia [inter] species sit uirtutum. In longanimitate. Id est, sustinentia longa. In suauitate. Ut nulli uerbi[s] nostris amaritudinem generemus, et [ut] dicatur de nobis: ‘fauces’ eorum ‘ dulcedines,’ et reliqua. In spiritu sancto. Dum dignos [nos] eius habitaculo praeparamus. In caritate non ficta. Omnia quae nobis uolumus [ab aliis] fieri, [nos] aliis faciamus, ut ‘ non diligamus uerbo, sed opere et ueritate.’ ### English translation (Claude) "In chastity." That is true chastity which is not defiled even in the mind. "In knowledge." It is to be noted that knowledge is among the kinds of virtues. "In long-suffering." That is, long endurance. "In sweetness." So that we cause bitterness to no one by our words, and it may be said of us: "Their throats are sweetness," and the rest. "In the Holy Spirit." When we prepare ourselves to be worthy as his dwelling. "In love unfeigned." Let us do to others all that we want done to us, so that "we love not in word but in deed and in truth." ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 6:6: quotation, high confidence - Song 5:16: quotation, medium confidence - Matt 7:12: allusion, high confidence - 1 John 3:18: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets con- in conscientia (so "knowledge" rather than "conscience"), inter, the s of uerbis, ut, nos twice, and "by others"; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 6.6 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:264; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/6-6). ## 2 Corinthians 6:7 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-6-7 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:264 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Ministers fight the devil with God's power, unmoved by prosperity or adversity. ### Latin text In uerbo ueritatis. Id est, in uerbo Christi, si apte proferatur et uere, ne fiat de ueritate mendacium. In uirtute dei per arma iustitiae. In uirtute dei siue legis contra diabolum dimicemus. A dextris et [a] sinistris. Nec prosperis eleuemur nec frangamur aduersis. ### English translation (Claude) "In the word of truth." That is, in the word of Christ, if it is set forth fittingly and truly, lest a lie be made of the truth. "In the power of God, through the weapons of righteousness." Let us fight against the devil in the power of God or of the law. "On the right and on the left." Let us be neither lifted up by prosperity nor broken by adversity. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 6:7: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets a; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 6.7 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:264; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/6-7). ## 2 Corinthians 6:8 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-6-8 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:264–265 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Praise and blame alike are borne with equanimity; conscience is the judge. ### Latin text Per gloriam et ignobilitatem . Gloriam uirtutum, ignobilitatem carcerum. Per infamiam et bonam famam, ut seductores sed ueraces. Ab aliis ut ueraces laudamur, ut seductores ab aliis infamamur, sicut et ipse saluator appellatus est a Iudaeis. quae omnia aequaliter ferimus, nec extollunt nos laudantes nec deiciunt uituperantes, quia solet utraque pars aliquando mentiri. unde ad conscientiam redeuntes non debemus fidem aliis magis adcommodare quam nobis. Ut qui ignoramur et cognoscimur. Igno[ra]ti [a] perfidis et ingratis et cogniti [a] fidelibus atque iustis. ### English translation (Claude) "Through glory and dishonor." The glory of powers, the dishonor of prisons. "Through ill repute and good repute, as deceivers and yet true." By some we are praised as truthful, by others defamed as deceivers, as the Savior himself was called by the Jews. All this we bear equally: those who praise do not lift us up, nor do those who blame cast us down, because both sides are sometimes apt to lie. Hence, returning to our conscience, we ought not to give credit to others more than to ourselves. "As unknown and yet known." Unknown by the faithless and ungrateful, and known by the faithful and righteous. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 6:8: quotation, high confidence - Matt 27:63: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets -ra- in ignorati and a twice; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 6.8 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:264–265; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/6-8). ## 2 Corinthians 6:9 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-6-9 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:265 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul came near death at Lystra yet lived. ### Latin text Quasi morientes et ecce uiuimus. Hoc est, usque ad mortem peruenientes, sicut, quando lapidatus est et mortuus aestimatus, surgens docebat in Listris. Ut temptati et non mortificati . ‘Castigans castigauit me dominus et morti non tradidit me.’ ### English translation (Claude) "As dying, and behold we live." That is, coming even to death, as when he was stoned and thought dead, he rose and taught at Lystra. "As tested and not put to death." "The Lord has chastened me severely, but he has not given me over to death." ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 6:9: quotation, high confidence - Acts 14:19: allusion, high confidence - Ps 118:18 (117:18 LXX): quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The lemma reads "tested" (temptati). ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 6.9 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:265; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/6-9). ## 2 Corinthians 6:10 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-6-10 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:265–266 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The apostles, poor and afflicted, are rich in God; the disciples' progress opens the teacher's heart. ### Latin text Quasi tristes , semper autem gaudentes. Tristes serietate uultus, corde uero etiam in tribulatione gaudentes. Sicut egentes, multos autem locupletantes . In hoc ipso quo nobis egemus aliis abundamus, dum per nos elimosinae fiunt. Siue: Terrenis egentes, alios bonis caelestibus facimus locupletes. simul adtendendum quod omnia quasi pati se dicit, non tamen pati, ut ostendat ista esse quasi imagines passionum ad conparationem praemii sempiterni. Quasi nihil habentes et omnia possidentes. Sicut ait Solomon: ‘eius qui fidelis est totus mundus diuitiarum ’ : nam, excepto quod omnia nostri dei sunt, nemo plus habet quam qui nullius indiget: ille uero nullius eget qui praeter necessaria nil requirit. Os nostrum patet ad uos, o Corinthii , cor nostrum dilatatum est . Ita sumus uestro profectu [pro]uocati, ut tacere penitus non possimus: profectus enim discipuli prouocat os magistri, et cor dilatat atque amplificat, id est, facit sensibus abundare, sicut de Salomone scriptum est quia ‘dedit’ illi deus ‘latitudinem cordis, sicut arena[m] maris.’ ### English translation (Claude) "As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing." Sorrowful in the seriousness of the face, but rejoicing in heart even in tribulation. "As poor, yet making many rich." In the very thing in which we are in need ourselves, we abound for others, as alms are given through us. Or: lacking earthly things, we make others rich with heavenly goods. At the same time it is to be noted that he says he suffers all things "as it were," not that he suffers them, to show that these are images, as it were, of sufferings, compared with the eternal reward. "As having nothing and possessing all things." As Solomon says: "The whole world of riches belongs to the faithful man"; for, apart from the fact that all things are our God's, no one has more than he who needs nothing; and he needs nothing who seeks nothing beyond necessities. "Our mouth is open to you, O Corinthians; our heart is enlarged." We are so provoked by your progress that we cannot keep silent at all: for the progress of the disciple provokes the master's mouth, and enlarges and widens his heart, that is, makes it abound in understanding, as it is written of Solomon that God "gave him breadth of heart like the sand of the sea." ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 6:10: quotation, high confidence - 2 Cor 6:11: quotation, high confidence - 1 Kgs 4:29: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The section covers 2 Cor 6:10–11. The "Solomon" saying is Prov 17:6a in the Greek. Souter brackets pro- in prouocati; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 6.10 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:265–266; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/6-10). ## 2 Corinthians 6:12 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-6-12 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:266 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The Corinthians' limited capacity, not Paul, restricts his teaching. ### Latin text Non angustiamini in nobis , coartamini autem in uisceribus uestris. Non [est] ex nobis sermonis angustia, sed, quia ualidiorem uos non potestis audire doctrinam, ideo[que] ex uobis causa procedit angustiae. ### English translation (Claude) "You are not restricted in us, but you are restricted in your own hearts." The narrowness of the discourse is not from us; but because you cannot hear stronger teaching, the cause of the narrowness comes from you. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 6:12: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets est and -que; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 6.12 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:266; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/6-12). ## 2 Corinthians 6:13 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-6-13 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:266 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul urges the Corinthians, as children, to open their hearts to fuller teaching. ### Latin text Eandem [autem] habentes remunerationem . Eandem habebitis remunerationem, si eundem sustinueritis laborem, aut certe, si tantum quantum dicere possumus capiatis. Tamquam filiis dico, dilatamini et uos. Quasi filii meo exemplo dilatamini, ut maiora recipiatis. Siue : Sacerdotes in doctrina exemplo suo praecepit dilatari. ### English translation (Claude) "Having the same recompense." You will have the same recompense if you endure the same labor, or at least if you take in as much as we can say. "I speak as to children: be enlarged yourselves too." As children, be enlarged by my example, so that you may receive greater things. Or: he instructed the priests to be enlarged in teaching by his example. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 6:13: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets autem; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 6.13 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:266; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/6-13). ## 2 Corinthians 6:14 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-6-14 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:266–267 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Believers must not be yoked with false apostles or idol-feasters; no one is both just and unjust. ### Latin text Et nolite iugum ducere cum infidelibus. Nolite illis coniungi uel aequari, quia iugum simul non trahunt nisi pares : id est, nolite iungi pseudoapostolis, uel his qui in idol[i]o recumbebant. Quae enim participatio iustitiae cum iniquitate, aut quae societas luci ad tenebras? Nulla, sicut nec cum tenebris luci. simul ostendit neminem posse et iustum esse pariter et iniustum, ualde contraria exempla proponens ### English translation (Claude) "And do not draw the yoke with unbelievers." Do not be joined or made equal to them, because only equals draw a yoke together; that is, do not be joined to the false apostles, or to those who reclined at table in an idol's temple. "For what participation has righteousness with iniquity, or what fellowship has light with darkness?" None, as light has none with darkness. At the same time he shows that no one can be just and unjust alike, setting out very contrary examples. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 6:14: quotation, high confidence - 1 Cor 8:10: allusion, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 6.14 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:266–267; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/6-14). ## 2 Corinthians 6:15 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-6-15 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:267 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Christ and Belial have nothing in common. ### Latin text Quae autem conuentio Christi cum Belial? aut quae pars fideli cum infidele? Penitus illis non potest conuenire. Belial autem diabolum siue antichristum in uocabulo idoli nominauit. ### English translation (Claude) "And what agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what part has the faithful with the unfaithful?" They can have no agreement at all. By "Belial" he named the devil or the antichrist, under the name of an idol. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 6:15: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 6.15 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:267; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/6-15). ## 2 Corinthians 6:16 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-6-16 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:267 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God dwells properly in those who receive his grace; he is God of all by nature, of few by will. ### Latin text Qui[s] autem consensus templo dei cum idolis? uos enim estis templum dei uiui . Idola ipsos homines dicit qui idola colunt, quia templa sunt daemonum, sicut [et] isti templum [sunt] dei. Sicut dicit deus: Quoniam inhabitabo in illis . Cum ubique sit deus, tamen in illis proprie habitare se dicit, qui eius gratia [se] perfruuntur et qui mundum ei praeparant sui cordis hospitium. Et in[tra eos ] ambulabo. Omnes eorum sensus optineam uel percurram. Et ero illorum deus . Deus enim natura omnium est, uoluntate paucorum: ‘non est’ enim ‘deus mortuorum, sed uiuorum.’ Et ipsi erunt mihi populus, Qui uoluntate serui sunt, non natura tantum. ### English translation (Claude) "And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God." He calls idols the very men who worship idols, because they are temples of demons, as these are the temple of God. "As God says: For I will dwell in them." Though God is everywhere, yet he says that he properly dwells in those who enjoy his grace and prepare for him a clean lodging in their heart. "And I will walk among them." I will occupy or pass through all their senses. "And I will be their God." For God is God of all by nature, of few by will: for "he is not the God of the dead but of the living." "And they shall be my people," Those who are servants by will, not by nature only. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 6:16: quotation, high confidence - Lev 26:12: quotation, high confidence - Mark 12:27: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The quotation is Lev 26:12. Souter brackets the s of quis, et, sunt, se, and -tra eos in intra eos; left out, "among them" kept for the sense. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 6.16 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:267; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/6-16). ## 2 Corinthians 6:17 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-6-17 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:267–268 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Separation from the wicked is in conduct, not in place. ### Latin text Propter quod exite de medio eorum et separamini , dicit dominus, Actu uel conuersatione uel familiaritate, non loco. Et inmundum ne tetigeritis . Omnis qui peccat inmundus est : inmundus enim apud deum omnis iniquus. Et ego recipiam uos. Si uos illi eiecerint. ### English translation (Claude) "Therefore come out from their midst and be separate, says the Lord," In act, in way of life, or in familiarity, not in place. "And touch no unclean thing." Everyone who sins is unclean: for every wicked person is unclean before God. "And I will receive you." If they cast you out. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 6:17: quotation, high confidence - Isa 52:11: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 6.17 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:267–268; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/6-17). ## 2 Corinthians 6:18 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/4-1/#p-6-18 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:268 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God becomes Father to believers disowned by their families. ### Latin text Et ero uobis in patrem et uos eritis mihi in filios et filias. Si uos parentes abdicauerint infideles, me patrem habebitis sempiternum. Dicit dominus omnipotens. Addidit ‘omnipotens,’ ne cui inpossibile uideatur. ### English translation (Claude) "And I will be a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters." If your unbelieving parents disown you, you will have me as your eternal Father. "Says the Lord almighty." He added "almighty," lest it seem impossible to anyone. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 6:18: quotation, high confidence - 2 Sam 7:14: allusion, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 6.18 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:268; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/6-18). ## 2 Corinthians 7:1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-7-1 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:268 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Believers must cleanse both flesh and thought to perfect holiness. ### Latin text Has igitur habentes promissiones , carissimi . Tantas et tales promissiones habentibus quanto studio mundanda est domus talem hospitem receptura ! et dei filii quo modo debent patrem in omnibus iustitiae operibus imitari ! Mundemus nos ab omni inquinamento carnis et spiritus. Inquinamentum carnis est quod per carnem admittitur: spiritus uero quod sola cogitatione peccatur. Perficientes sanctificationem [spiritus]. Tunc erit perfecta sanctificatio [sanctificatio], si utraque munda seruentur. In timore dei. Non in laude hominum uel timore. ### English translation (Claude) "Having therefore these promises, beloved." For those who have such great promises, with what zeal must the house be cleansed that is to receive such a guest! And how ought the sons of God to imitate the Father in all works of righteousness! "Let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh and spirit." Defilement of the flesh is what is committed through the flesh; of the spirit, what is sinned by thought alone. "Perfecting sanctification." Sanctification will be perfect then, if both are kept clean. "In the fear of God." Not in human praise or fear. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 7:1: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets spiritus and a repeated sanctificatio; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 7.1 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:268; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1). ## 2 Corinthians 7:2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-7-2 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:268 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul harmed no one by teaching or greed. ### Latin text Capite nos: neminem nocuimus. Accipite quod dicimus siue quod uiuimus, ut exemplum nostrum teneatis. Neminem corru[m]pimus. [In] mala doctrina. Neminem circumuenimus . Ut eius aliquit tolleremus. ### English translation (Claude) "Receive us: we have harmed no one." Accept what we say, or how we live, so that you may hold to our example. "We have corrupted no one." By evil teaching. "We have defrauded no one." So as to take anything of his. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 7:2: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the m of corrumpimus and In; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 7.2 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:268; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-2). ## 2 Corinthians 7:3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-7-3 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:268 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul's words are not condemnation but love. ### Latin text Non ad condemnationem dico: praedixi enim quod in cordibus nostris estis ad commoriendum et ad conuiuendum. Non me excusando uos tales expono : non enim possum de uobis hoc sentire quos diligo, ut superius memoraui. Siue: Dilectio tantam me facit habere fiduciam. ### English translation (Claude) "I do not say this to condemn you: for I have said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together." I am not, by excusing myself, setting you out as such: for I cannot think this of you whom I love, as I mentioned above. Or: love makes me so confident. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 7:3: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 7.3 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:268; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-3). ## 2 Corinthians 7:4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-7-4 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:268–269 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The Corinthians' obedience fills Paul with confidence and joy amid trials. ### Latin text Multa mihi libertas [est] ad uos . Multam mihi fiduciam dedistis loquendi, quia in omnibus oboedistis. Siue : Quia multum me a uobis diligi non ignoro. Multa mihi gloriatio pro uobis . Aput alias ecclesias de uestra emendatione mihi placeo. Repletus sum consolatione . Post multam tristitiam. Siue: Sermo mihi suppeditat consolandi uestro prouocante [nunc] profectu. Superabundo gaudio in multa tribulatione nostra . [In omni tribulatione nostra] tantum gaudeo ut obliuiscar omni[um] pressura[rum], ### English translation (Claude) "Great is my freedom toward you." You have given me great confidence in speaking, because you obeyed in all things. Or: because I know that I am much loved by you. "Great is my glorying on your behalf." Before other churches I take pleasure in your amendment. "I am filled with comfort." After much sorrow. Or: words of consolation come to me readily as your progress provokes them. "I overflow with joy in all our tribulation." I rejoice so much that I forget all pressures. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 7:4: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets est, nunc, a repeated phrase ("in all our tribulation"), and endings of omnium pressurarum; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 7.4 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:268–269; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-4). ## 2 Corinthians 7:5 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-7-5 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:269 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul faced fights without and fears within in Macedonia. ### Latin text Nam et cum uenissemus in Macedonia[m], nullam requiem habuit caro nostra . Ostendere illis uult quantam pressuram magnitudo gaudii superarit. Sed in omnibus sumus afflicti. Nullum genus tribulationis experti non sumus. Foris pugnae, intus timores. Pugnae contra infideles et timor de fratribus falsis. Siue: Timebamus ne scandaliz[ar]entur infirmi. ### English translation (Claude) "For even when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest." He wishes to show them how great a pressure the greatness of joy overcame. "But we were afflicted in every way." There is no kind of tribulation we have not experienced. "Fights without, fears within." Fights against unbelievers, and fear concerning false brothers. Or: we feared lest the weak be offended. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 7:5: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the m of Macedoniam and -ar- in scandalizarentur; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 7.5 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:269; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-5). ## 2 Corinthians 7:6 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-7-6 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:269 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God comforted Paul by the arrival of Titus. ### Latin text Sed qui consolatur humiles . Hoc est, humiliatos passionibus et adflictos. Consolatus est nos deus [in] aduentu[m] Titi; ### English translation (Claude) "But he who comforts the humble." That is, those humbled and afflicted by sufferings. "God comforted us by the coming of Titus;" ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 7:6: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets in and the m of aduentum; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 7.6 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:269; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-6). ## 2 Corinthians 7:7 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-7-7 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:269–270 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Titus brought news of the Corinthians' grief and godly zeal against sin. ### Latin text non solum autem in aduentu[m] eius , sed etiam in [con]solatio[ne]. Non solum quia desideratus aduenit, sed et[iam] quia illa nuntiauit propter quae eius maxime expectabamus aduentum. Quia consolatus [est] in uobis . Post luctum quem nobiscum pro uobis habebat. Referens nobis nostrum fletum, uestrum maerorem. Pro nostra contristatione et quorundam peccatis. Uestram aemulationem pro me . Quia uice mea aemulati estis dei aemulatione peccantes. [peccantis] sane triplex est aemulatio: aut imitationis aut inuidiae aut de qua agitur in praesenti. Ita ut magis gauderem. Quia non modo correxistis, sed etiam amplius profecistis. ### English translation (Claude) "and not only by his coming, but also by the comfort." Not only because he came, as we longed for him, but also because he reported the things for which we most awaited his coming. "With which he was comforted in you." After the mourning he had with us for you. "Telling us our weeping, your grief." For our sadness and the sins of some. "Your zeal for me." Because in my place you were zealous with the zeal of God against those who sin. Zeal is indeed threefold: either of imitation, or of envy, or that which is treated here. "So that I rejoiced the more." Because you not only corrected yourselves but also advanced further. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 7:7: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The lemma reads "our weeping" (nostrum fletum), translated as written. Souter brackets con- and -ne in consolatione, -iam in etiam, est, and peccantis; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 7.7 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:269–270; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-7). ## 2 Corinthians 7:8 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-7-8 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:270 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Lemma of 2 Cor 7:8. ### Latin text Quoniam , et si contristaui uos in epistula, non me paenitet; et si paeniteret , uideo quia epistula illa, et si ad horam, contristauit uos , ### English translation (Claude) "For even if I saddened you by the letter, I do not regret it; even if I did regret it, I see that that letter, even if only for an hour, saddened you," ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 7:8: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The comment follows in the next section. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 7.8 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:270; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-8). ## 2 Corinthians 7:9 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-7-9 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:270 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul rejoices that his letter's sting led to repentance, like a healing cautery. ### Latin text nunc gaudeo, [gaudeo autem] non quia contristati estis, sed quia contristati estis ad paenitentiam. Et si [me] paenituisset eo quod uos durius corripuerim, tamen uester facit profectus ut non me paeniteat: quasi si dicat medicus : “etiam si doluerit mihi tam ardenti me usum esse cauterio, sed nunc gaudeo, non quia doluistis, sed quia dolor ille uobis profuit ad salutem.” Nam contristati estis secundum deum. Non secundum saeculum. Ut in nullo detrimentum patiamini ex nobis. Aut nostra negligentia, aut [ne] uenientes uestrum aliquem damnaremus. ### English translation (Claude) "now I rejoice, not because you were saddened, but because you were saddened unto repentance." Even if I had regretted rebuking you rather harshly, your progress makes me not regret it: as if a physician were to say: "Even if it grieved me to have used so burning a cautery, now I rejoice, not because you were in pain, but because that pain profited you for health." "For you were saddened according to God." Not according to the world. "So that you suffered loss from us in nothing." Either through our negligence, or lest, when we came, we condemn any of you. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 7:9: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "but I rejoice," me, and ne; left out, "lest" kept for the sense. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 7.9 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:270; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-9). ## 2 Corinthians 7:10 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-7-10 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:270–272 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Godly sorrow leads to repentance and zeal against sin; worldly sorrow to death. ### Latin text Quae enim secundum deum est tristitia, paenitentiam in salutem. Est enim paenitentia diabolica aduersa saluti, si quis de bono opere forte paeniteat. Stabilem operatur. Stabilem salutem. Siue: Permanentem paenitentiam: de propitiatu enim peccatorum non debemus esse sine metu. Saeculi autem tristitia mortem operatur. Saeculi tristitia est aut de amissis rebus propriis aut de alienis non inuasis dolere uel de alterius felicitate torqueri: secundum deum uero est tristitia siue sua siue aliena lugere commissa. Ecce enim hoc ipsum secundum deum contristari uos quantum efficit in uobis sollicitudinem. [Hoc ipsum] quod modo factum est potest uos docere quid sit inter utramque tristitiam. Sed defensionem . Non superbiam aut contemptum, sed satisfactionem, quidam dicunt hoc loco ‘sed’ praepositionem [non] esse superfluam in Latino, apud Grecos uero consequentiam uel structuram esse sermonis. Sed indignationem . Contra peccantes, non neglegentiam. Sed timorem . Timorem dei, non securitatem. Sed desiderium. Non fastidium, sed desiderium nostrum. Sed aemulationem . Contra peccantes, ne ultra pecc[ar]ent, non remissionem. Sed uindictam . Non ueniam noxiam, sed uindictam salutarem. In omnibus exhibuistis uos sinceres esse negotio . Probastis uos inmunes [a] culpa : contaminatus enim auctoritatem non habet uindicandi. Igitur, et si scripsi [uobis], non propter eum qui [in]iuriam fecit , neque propter eum qui [iniuriam] passus est. Non propter eum qui patri fecit iniuriam tantum, nec propter ipsum solum modo patrem. potest et ita dici: Non propter eum qui excommunicauit, neque propter eum qui eiectus est, scripsi: neque enim per me haec sola emendata uel correcta est causa. Sed ad manifestandam sollicitudinem nostram quam pro uobis habemus [ad uos] [coram deo ]. Ne putetis nos aliquid posse latere, dum pro uobis sumus nimia cura solliciti. ### English translation (Claude) "For the sorrow that is according to God works repentance unto salvation" For there is a diabolical repentance opposed to salvation, if one should repent of a good work. "that is lasting." Lasting salvation. Or: lasting repentance: for we ought not to be without fear about the propitiation of sins. "But the sorrow of the world works death." The sorrow of the world is to grieve over losing one's own things or over not having seized another's, or to be tormented by another's happiness; but the sorrow according to God is to mourn sins committed, whether one's own or another's. "For behold, this very thing, that you were saddened according to God, what solicitude it has worked in you." What has just happened can teach you the difference between the two sorrows. "But defense." Not pride or contempt, but satisfaction. Some say that in this place the word "but" is superfluous in Latin, but among the Greeks it belongs to the sequence or structure of the speech. "But indignation." Against sinners, not negligence. "But fear." Fear of God, not complacency. "But longing." Not disdain, but longing for us. "But zeal." Against sinners, so that they sin no more, not remission. "But vengeance." Not harmful pardon, but saving punishment. "In all things you have shown yourselves to be pure in the matter." You have proved yourselves free from guilt: for one who is defiled has no authority to punish. "So although I wrote, it was not for the sake of him who did the wrong, nor for the sake of him who suffered it." Not only for the sake of him who wronged his father, nor only for the father himself. It can also be said thus: I wrote not for the sake of him who excommunicated, nor for the sake of him who was cast out: for not only this case was amended or corrected through me. "But to make manifest our solicitude which we have for you." Lest you think anything can be hidden from us, since we are anxious for you with very great care. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 7:10: quotation, high confidence - 2 Cor 7:11: quotation, high confidence - 2 Cor 7:12: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The section covers 2 Cor 7:10–12. Souter brackets "This very thing," non (so the Latin "but" is called superfluous), a, -ar- in peccarent, uobis, in- in iniuriam, a repeated iniuriam, "to you," and "before God"; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 7.10 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:270–272; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-10). ## 2 Corinthians 7:13 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-7-13 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:272 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Titus's joy over the Corinthians doubled Paul's comfort. ### Latin text Ideo [et] consolati sumus . Quia uos castos probastis esse negotio. In consolatione autem nostra abundantius magis gauisi sumus super gaudio Titi, quia profectus est spiritus eius ab omnibus uobis. In hoc autem amplius gratulati sumus, quod ita a uobis Titi spiritus est refectus, ut numquam possitis de eius mente recedere: profectus quippe discipulorum spiritalia gaudia [sunt] magistrorum. ### English translation (Claude) "Therefore we have been comforted." Because you proved yourselves pure in the matter. "But in our comfort we rejoiced still more abundantly over the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by all of you." In this we rejoiced more, that Titus's spirit was so refreshed by you that you can never leave his mind: for the progress of disciples is the spiritual joy of masters. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 7:13: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets et and sunt; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 7.13 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:272; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-13). ## 2 Corinthians 7:14 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-7-14 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:272–273 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul's boast about the Corinthians proved true; Titus loves them for their obedience. ### Latin text Quoniam si quid apud illum de uobis [in ueritate] gloriatus sum. Quasi peritus medicus agit, qui uulnus iam prope sanatum blandis unctionibus fouet, ut facilius cauterii us[t]ura sanetur. Non sum confusus. Confusionem non habet gloria de profectu. Sed, sicut omnia uobis in ueritate locuti sumus , ita et gloriatio nostra, quae fuit ad Titum, ueritas facta est. De rebus iustis non uanitatis, sed ueritatis est gloriatio. Et uiscera eius abundantius in uobis sunt . Omnia paene uos eius membra desiderant, [ut] oculi praesentiam, aures sermonem, os colloquium expecta[n]t. Reminiscens omnium uestrum oboedientiam, quo modo cum timore et tremore excepistis illum. Oboedientiam fidelem descripsit, quia etiam qui ex caritate obaudit, timet contristare quem diligit. ### English translation (Claude) "For if I boasted to him about you." He acts like a skilled physician, who soothes a wound already nearly healed with gentle ointments, so that the burn of the cautery may be healed more easily. "I was not put to shame." Glory in progress has no shame. "But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so also our boasting to Titus has proved true." Boasting about just things is not of vanity but of truth. "And his heart goes out all the more to you." Almost all his members long for you: the eyes await your presence, the ears your speech, the mouth your conversation. "Remembering the obedience of you all, how you received him with fear and trembling." He described faithful obedience, because even one who obeys out of love fears to sadden the one he loves. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 7:14: quotation, high confidence - 2 Cor 7:15: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The section covers 2 Cor 7:14–15. Souter brackets "in truth," the t of ustura, ut, and the n of expectant; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 7.14 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:272–273; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-14). ## 2 Corinthians 7:16 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-7-16 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:273 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul rejoices in his confidence in the Corinthians. ### Latin text Gaudeo quod in omnibus confido in uobis . Fecistis me gaudere, quia de oboedientia uestra numquam potui haesitare. ### English translation (Claude) "I rejoice that in all things I have confidence in you." You have made me rejoice, because I could never doubt your obedience. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 7:16: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 7.16 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:273; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-16). ## 2 Corinthians 8:1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-8-1 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:273 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul begins the collection, citing the generous Macedonian churches. ### Latin text Notam autem uobis facimus , fratres, gratiam domini, quae data est in ecclesiis Macedoniae . Causam inchoat de collectis, et exemplo ecclesiarum illarum eos ad paenitentiam et elymosinam prouocat, ut non putent sibi graue quod pauperiores uideant iam fecisse. ### English translation (Claude) "We make known to you, brothers, the grace of the Lord that has been given in the churches of Macedonia." He begins the matter of the collections, and by the example of those churches he provokes them to repentance and almsgiving, so that they may not think it a burden, since they see that poorer people have already done it. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 8:1: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 8.1 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:273; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/8-1). ## 2 Corinthians 8:2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-8-2 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:273–274 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The poor Macedonians gave generously; God values the will more than the amount. ### Latin text Quod in multo experimento tribulationis abundantia gaudii ipsorum [fuit]. Tunc maxime gaudent [fuerint] quando fuerint tribulati, scientes apostolos contumeliam in concilio passos pro nomine Christi, publica laetitia fuisse gauisos. Et altissima paupertas eorum abundauit in diuitias simplicitatis ipsorum. Multum quidem in terrena facilitate sunt pauperes, sed in magna simplicitate sunt diuites, plus cupientes dare quam habent. ac propter ea deus animum magis probat quam quod dextera porrigit: qui enim quantum potest facit, totum fecit, similiter diues et pauper, quamuis diues amplius dare uideatur. ### English translation (Claude) "That in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy." They rejoice most when they have been afflicted, knowing that the apostles, having suffered insult in the council for the name of Christ, rejoiced with open gladness. "And their deepest poverty abounded in the riches of their simplicity." They are indeed very poor in earthly means, but rich in great simplicity, wishing to give more than they have. And for this reason God approves the mind more than what the right hand offers: for he who does as much as he can has done everything, rich and poor alike, though the rich man seems to give more. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 8:2: quotation, high confidence - Acts 5:41: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets fuit and fuerint; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 8.2 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:273–274; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/8-2). ## 2 Corinthians 8:3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-8-3 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:274 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The Macedonians gave willingly beyond their means. ### Latin text Qu[on]ia[m] pro uiribus testimonio illis sumus et ultra uires uoluntarii fuerunt. Uerbis praeposteris hoc dicit : testimonium illis reddo quod secundum uirtutem facientes, supra uirtutem uoluntarii fuerunt. ### English translation (Claude) "For according to their power, I bear them witness, and beyond their power they were willing." He says this with the words in reversed order: I bear them witness that, acting according to their power, they were willing beyond their power. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 8:3: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 8.3 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:274; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/8-3). ## 2 Corinthians 8:4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-8-4 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:274 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The Macedonians begged to take part in the collection. ### Latin text Cum multa exhortatione orantes nos[tram ] gratiam et communicationem mi[ni]sterii quam habemus in sanctos . Multum suadentes, nos rogauerunt ut gratanter quae offerebant susciperemus in ministerio sanctorum. ### English translation (Claude) "Begging us with much exhortation for the grace and fellowship of the ministry which we have toward the saints." Urging us much, they asked us to accept gladly what they offered for the ministry of the saints. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 8:4: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets -tram in nostram and -ni- in ministerii; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 8.4 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:274; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/8-4). ## 2 Corinthians 8:5 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-8-5 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:274 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The Macedonians gave themselves first to God. ### Latin text Et non , sicut sperabamus, sed semet ipsos dederunt primum deo, deinde nobis . Amplius quam sperabamus fecerunt, non contenti sua dare, sed se ipsos primum domino tradiderunt, deinde nobis: hoc est, deus uidit uoluntatem eorum, nos effectum. Per uoluntatem dei. Non ut nobis placerent sine domini uoluntate. ### English translation (Claude) "And not as we hoped, but they gave themselves first to God, then to us." They did more than we hoped: not content to give their own things, they first handed themselves over to the Lord, then to us; that is, God saw their will, we the effect. "Through the will of God." Not to please us without the Lord's will. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 8:5: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 8.5 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:274; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/8-5). ## 2 Corinthians 8:6 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-8-6 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:274–275 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Titus is sent to complete the collection at Corinth. ### Latin text Ita ut rogaremus Titum, ut , sicut c[o]epit , ita et perficiat in uobis etiam gratiam istam. Illorum deuotione accensi sumus mittere eum ad uos, ut doctrina et dispositione sua etiam hoc in uobis perficiat, ne quid minus ceteris habeatis. ### English translation (Claude) "So that we asked Titus that, as he had begun, so he would also complete in you this grace too." Kindled by their devotion we sent him to you, so that by his teaching and arrangement he may complete this in you too, so that you may lack nothing that the others have. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 8:6: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the o of coepit; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 8.6 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:274–275; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/8-6). ## 2 Corinthians 8:7 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-8-7 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:275 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The Corinthians, rich in faith and knowledge, should excel in giving too. ### Latin text Sed sicut in omnibus abundatis [in] fide et sermone et scientia. Notandum quod cum fide et scientiam [ostendit] esse laudabilem. Et omni sollicitudine[ , insuper] et [in] caritate uestra in nos , ut et in hac gratia abundetis. Ne, cum in aliis [ceteros] uin[di]catis, in hoc ab aliis superemini. ### English translation (Claude) "But as you abound in all things, in faith and word and knowledge." It is to be noted that knowledge too, together with faith, is praiseworthy. "And in all solicitude and your love toward us, so that you may abound in this grace also." Lest, while you surpass in other things, you be surpassed by others in this. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 8:7: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets in twice, ostendit, "besides," ceteros, and -di- in uindicatis; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 8.7 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:275; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/8-7). ## 2 Corinthians 8:8 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-8-8 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:275 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul gives counsel, not command, trusting the Corinthians' generosity. ### Latin text Non quasi imperans dico , sed propter aliorum sollicitudinem etiam uestrae caritatis ingenium comprobans. Non impero nec exigo, sed consilium do ut, sicut in multis formam aliis praebuistis, ita et in isto opere faciatis: est enim in uo[bi]s sic ingenita pietas, ut ab aliis eam discere minime egeatis. ### English translation (Claude) "I do not say this as commanding, but through the solicitude of others proving the genuineness of your love too." I do not command or demand, but I give counsel, so that, as in many things you have provided a pattern for others, so you may do in this work too: for godliness is so inborn in you that you have no need to learn it from others. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 8:8: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets -bi- in uobis; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 8.8 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:275; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/8-8). ## 2 Corinthians 8:9 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-8-9 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:275 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Lemma of 2 Cor 8:9. ### Latin text Scitis enim gratiam domini nostri Iesu Christi , quia propter uos pauper factus est , cum diues esset , ut illius inopia uos honestaremini , ### English translation (Claude) "For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sake he became poor, though he was rich, so that by his poverty you might be made honorable," ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 8:9: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The lemma reads "made honorable" (honestaremini). The comment follows in the next section. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 8.9 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:275; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/8-9). ## 2 Corinthians 8:10 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-8-10 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:275–276 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Christ became poor for us, so giving to the poor is giving back to him; his prior riches refute Photinus. ### Latin text et consilium in hoc do: hoc enim [uobis] utile est . Non ignoratis Christum propter uos pauperem factum, qui uniuersorum erat conditor et dominus, ut eius exemplo bonis caelestibus ditaremini. si ergo ille propter uos temporaliter uniuersa contempsit, quanto magis uos propter uos dare debetis parua, non uestra, immo sua ei reddere ! ipsi enim datur quidquid eius causa porrigitur [pauperibus]. simul et contra Fotinum facit quod, prius quam pauper fieret [Christus], diues erat[, qui habitat in Christo]. Quod non tantum facere , sed et uelle coepistis ab anno praeterito. Ostendit quosdam posse facere non uolentes, cum aut inportunitas petentis aut auctoritas praecipientis exegerit. ### English translation (Claude) "and I give counsel in this: for this is useful." You are not ignorant that Christ, who was the founder and lord of all things, became poor for your sake, so that by his example you might be enriched with heavenly goods. If then he despised all things in time for your sake, how much more ought you to give small things for your own sake, things not yours, rather returning to him his own! For whatever is offered for his sake is given to him. At the same time it tells against Photinus that he was rich before he became poor. "Which you began not only to do but also to will from last year." He shows that some can do it without willing, when the importunity of the one asking or the authority of the one commanding has exacted it. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 8:10: quotation, high confidence - Matt 25:40: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets uobis, pauperibus ("to the poor"), Christus, and "who dwells in Christ"; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 8.10 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:275–276; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/8-10). ## 2 Corinthians 8:11 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-8-11 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:276 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Good will must be completed in action. ### Latin text Nunc autem et facto perficite , ut, quem ad modum prompta est in uobis uoluntas faciendi, ita sit et perficiendi ex eo quod habetis. Quod uoluntarii coepistis implete : omnis enim boni operis finis est expe[c]tendus, quia, sicut factum inuiti acceptum non est, i[s]ta [et] uoluntas infructuosa est habentibus [eam] sine facto. ### English translation (Claude) "But now complete it in deed also, so that, as there was a readiness of will to do it, so there may be also of completing it, out of what you have." Fulfil what you began willingly: for the end of every good work is to be looked for, because, as a deed done unwillingly is not accepted, so the will is fruitless for those who have it without the deed. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 8:11: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the c of expectendus, the s of ista, et, and eam; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 8.11 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:276; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/8-11). ## 2 Corinthians 8:12 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-8-12 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:276 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Each gives according to his means, and so all give equally. ### Latin text Si enim uoluntas [prompta] est, secundum id quod habet accepta est. Ne putetis me aliquem supra uires cogere aut tantum in hac causa a paupere, quantum a diuite, expetere; omnes enim aequaliter dabunt, si unus quisque tantum dederit quantum potest. Non secundum [id] quod non habet. Hoc et Tobias dicebat ad filium: ‘prout habueris, fili, fac elimosinam.’ ### English translation (Claude) "For if the will is there, it is accepted according to what one has." Do not think that I force anyone beyond his strength, or seek as much from the poor man in this matter as from the rich; for all will give equally if each gives as much as he can. "Not according to what he does not have." Tobit too said this to his son: "As you have, my son, give alms." ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 8:12: quotation, high confidence ### Extrabiblical texts - Tob 4:8 (Tobit): quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The quotation is Tob 4:8. Souter brackets prompta ("ready") and id; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 8.12 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:276; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/8-12). ## 2 Corinthians 8:13 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-8-13 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:276 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Lemma of 2 Cor 8:13. ### Latin text Non enim ut aliis [si£] refectio , uobis autem angustia, sed ex [a]equ[al]itate ### English translation (Claude) "For not that there should be refreshment for others and distress for you, but out of equality" ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 8:13: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets sit and letters of aequalitate; left out. The lemma continues in the next section. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 8.13 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:276; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/8-13). ## 2 Corinthians 8:14 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-8-14 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:276–277 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Material gifts free the saints to give spiritual goods in return. ### Latin text in hoc tempore. Non dico ut uobis nihil [re]seruetis, sed quod est utrisque sufficiat. Uestra abundantia illorum inopiam suppleat , ut et illorum abundantia sit uestrae inopiae supplementum. Date illis carnalia, ut et illi[s] uacantes possint uobis reddere spiritalia. isti enim duo gradus sine alterutro esse non possunt: tam enim ille perfectus non erit de carnalibus cogitando, quam is misericors, cum non habet cui dare uel a[li]quo dare doceatur. Ut fiat aequalitas ; ### English translation (Claude) "at this time." I do not say that you should keep nothing for yourselves, but that what there is should suffice for both. "Let your abundance supply their want, so that their abundance also may be a supplement for your want." Give them carnal things, so that they, being free for it, can give you back spiritual things. For these two grades cannot exist without each other: the one will not be perfect if he must think about carnal things, nor will the other be merciful if he has no one to give to or by whom to be taught. "So that there may be equality;" ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 8:14: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets re- in reseruetis, the s of illis, and -li- in aliquo; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 8.14 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:276–277; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/8-14). ## 2 Corinthians 8:15 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-8-15 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:277 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The manna teaches that surplus breeds corruption and that goods should be shared in common. ### Latin text sicut scriptum est : Qui multum, non abundauit, et qui modicum , non minorauit. De manna hoc dicitur, quam accepit populus in deserto, cuius exemplo docemur quod omnis superabundantia generet uermes. simul et ostenditur quae deus dat omnibus aequalia esse debere, et propter huius testimonii auctoritatem uult nobis apostolus praesentia omnia esse communia, ut [et] perfecti doctrinam non abscondant et habentes substantiam mundi non denegent eis uictum : ‘ dignus est enim operarius cibo suo.’ ### English translation (Claude) "as it is written: He who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little did not have too little." This is said of the manna which the people received in the desert, by whose example we are taught that all superabundance breeds worms. At the same time it is shown that what God gives ought to be equal for all; and on the authority of this testimony the apostle wants all present things to be common to us, so that the perfect do not hide their teaching and those who have the substance of the world do not deny them food: "for the workman is worthy of his food." ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 8:15: quotation, high confidence - Exod 16:18: quotation, high confidence - Exod 16:20: allusion, high confidence - Matt 10:10: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets et; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 8.15 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:277; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/8-15). ## 2 Corinthians 8:16 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-8-16 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:277 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Lemma of 2 Cor 8:16. ### Latin text Gratias autem deo, qui dedit eandem sollicitudinem [pro uobis ] in corde Titi , ### English translation (Claude) "But thanks be to God, who put the same solicitude into the heart of Titus," ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 8:16: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "for you"; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 8.16 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:277; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/8-16). ## 2 Corinthians 8:17 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-8-17 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:277–278 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Titus came willingly, not as one compelled. ### Latin text quoniam consolationem quidem accepit; cum sit autem sollicitior , uoluntarius profectus est ad uos. Gratia[m] quidem exhortationis [accepit], sed uoluntate propria festinauit, ut mercedem haberet, non inui[c]tus, quasi ei sit credita dispensatio. ### English translation (Claude) "because he accepted the exhortation; but being more eager, he went to you of his own accord." He accepted the grace of exhortation, but hastened by his own will, so as to have a reward, not unwillingly, as though a stewardship had been entrusted to him. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 8:17: quotation, high confidence - 1 Cor 9:17: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - The lemma reads "consolation" (consolationem). Souter brackets the m of gratiam, accepit, and the c of inuictus; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 8.17 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:277–278; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/8-17). ## 2 Corinthians 8:18 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-8-18 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:278 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The praised brother is Luke, author of the Gospel and Acts. ### Latin text Misimus autem [cum illo] fratrem [nostrum], cuius laus in euangelio est per omnes ecclesias. Hoc de Luca intellegitur, qui laudem in euangelio conscribendo uidetur habere prae ceteris, quia etiam Actus Apostolorum praeter Euangelium scripsit. [19 Non solum autem ] uerum etiam ordinatus [est] ab ecclesiis comes peregrinationis nostrae cum hac gratia quae ministrat[ur] a nobis ad domini gloriam. Testimonio ecclesiarum idoneum eum et probatum fuisse demonstrat. Et destinatam uoluntatem nostram. Propositam uel paratam. ### English translation (Claude) "And we have sent the brother whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches." This is understood of Luke, who seems to have praise above the others for writing the gospel, because he also wrote the Acts of the Apostles besides the Gospel. "But he was also appointed by the churches as companion of our journey with this grace which is ministered by us to the glory of the Lord." He shows that he was fit and approved by the testimony of the churches. "And our appointed will." Proposed or ready. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 8:18: quotation, high confidence - 2 Cor 8:19: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The section covers 2 Cor 8:18–19. Souter brackets "with him," nostrum, the opening of 8:19 ("Not only so"), est, and -ur in ministratur; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 8.18 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:278; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/8-18). ## 2 Corinthians 8:20 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-8-20 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:278 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Christian almsgiving must not fall short of the law's. ### Latin text Deuitantes hoc, ne quis nos reprehendat in hac plenitudine, quae ministratur a nobis. Ne quis dicat: “quo modo Christus legem impleuit, cum uideamus Christianos nec tantam elymosinam facere quanta fieri in lege praecepta est? ” ### English translation (Claude) "Avoiding this, that anyone should blame us in this abundance which is ministered by us." Lest anyone say: "How did Christ fulfil the law, when we see Christians not giving even as much in alms as the law commanded?" ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 8:20: quotation, high confidence - Matt 5:17: allusion, medium confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 8.20 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:278; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/8-20). ## 2 Corinthians 8:21 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-8-21 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:278–279 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul avoids giving offense so that all may glorify God. ### Latin text Prouidemus enim bona non solum coram deo, uerum etiam coram hominibus . Nihil quidem propter humanam gloriam facimus, sed tamen nolumus ut per nos aliquis scandalum merito patiatur, sed ut omnes uidentes opera nostra bona magnificent patrem nostrum. ### English translation (Claude) "For we provide good things not only before God but also before men." We do nothing for human glory, yet we do not want anyone to be justly offended through us, but rather that all, seeing our good works, may glorify our Father. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 8:21: quotation, high confidence - Matt 5:16: allusion, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 8.21 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:278–279; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/8-21). ## 2 Corinthians 8:22 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-8-22 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:279 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul commends another brother, perhaps Apollos. ### Latin text Misimus [autem] et fratrem nostrum cum illis. Quidam hoc de Apollo adserunt dictum. Quern probauimus in multis saepe sollicitum esse. Testimonium illi dat ut facilius audiatur. Nunc uero multo sollicitiorem confidentia uestri multa. Multo sollicitiorem eum probamus, confidentes quia uestra oboedientia prouocetur. Siue: Quam audiuit a Tito. Siue : Quam per se ipse est probaturus. ### English translation (Claude) "And we have sent with them our brother also." Some assert that this was said of Apollos. "Whom we have often proved to be diligent in many things." He gives him a testimony so that he may be heard more readily. "But now much more diligent, with much confidence in you." We prove him much more diligent, trusting that your obedience will be provoked. Or: confidence which he heard of from Titus. Or: which he himself is going to prove in person. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 8:22: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets autem; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 8.22 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:279; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/8-22). ## 2 Corinthians 8:23 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-8-23 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:279 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The Corinthians must prove true the apostles' boasting about them. ### Latin text Siue pro Tito , qui est socius meus et adiutor in uobis , siue fratres nostri , apostoli ecclesiarum gloriae Christi. Quod dicit hoc est, [ut] tam Titi causa qui eorum oboedientiam conlaudauerat, quam eorum qui ad ipsos fuerant [pariter] destinati, ita se exhiberent, ut et carita[ti]s sinceritatem et apostolicae pro ipsis gloriae ueritatem in conspectu omnium comprobarent. ### English translation (Claude) "Whether for Titus, who is my partner and helper toward you, or our brothers, apostles of the churches, the glory of Christ." What he says is this: that both for the sake of Titus, who had praised their obedience, and for the sake of those who had been sent to them, they should conduct themselves so as to prove before all both the sincerity of their love and the truth of the apostolic boasting on their behalf. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 8:23: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets ut, pariter, and -ti- in caritatis; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 8.23 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:279; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/8-23). ## 2 Corinthians 8:24 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-8-24 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:279 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The Corinthians' love should be shown before the churches. ### Latin text Ostensionem ergo quae est carita[ti]s uestrae et nostrae exultationis pro uobis in ipsis ostendite in facie ecclesiarum [domini]. Ut, cum uiderint uerum esse quod dicitur, omnibus hoc ecclesiis deferant ad profectum. Siue aliter: Ostendit[e] caritatem uestram, de qua coram omnibus ecclesiis gloriamur. ### English translation (Claude) "Show therefore before the churches the proof of your love and of our boasting about you." So that, when they see that what is said is true, they may report it to all the churches for their progress. Or otherwise: show your love, of which we boast before all the churches. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 8:24: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets -ti- in caritatis, domini, and the e of ostendite; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 8.24 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:279; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/8-24). ## 2 Corinthians 9:1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-9-1 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:279–280 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Lemma of 2 Cor 9:1. ### Latin text Nam de ministerio quod fit in sanctos , ex abundanti est mihi scribere uobis: ### English translation (Claude) "For concerning the ministry that is done for the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:" ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 9:1: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 9.1 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:279–280; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/9-1). ## 2 Corinthians 9:2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-9-2 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:280 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Two readings of 2 Cor 9: alms for the saints, or the ministry of the word. ### Latin text scio enim uoluntatem uestram, qua de uobis glorior apud Macedonas. Mutare uidetur hi[n]c sensum, et ideo quidam dicunt eum superius de laicis sanctis dixisse, hic uero de sacerdotibus sanctis. alii uero aiunt eum de elymosinis hucusque tractasse, modo autem de ministerio uerbi commonere, quod sanctificatis per baptismum exhibetur. hi[i] uero duo sensus usque ad finem causae diligenter utrique sunt colligendi. Quoniam Ac[h]aia parata est ab anno praeterito. Tota prouincia, cuius [c]aput estis, per uos ad hoc ministerium prouocata est. Et uestra aemulatio prouocauit plurimos. Hic aemulatio pro imitatione ponitur. ### English translation (Claude) "for I know your willingness, of which I boast about you to the Macedonians." He seems to change the sense here, and therefore some say that above he spoke of holy lay people, but here of holy priests. Others say that up to this point he treated alms, but now admonishes about the ministry of the word, which is given to those sanctified through baptism. Both these senses are to be carefully gathered to the end of the matter. "That Achaia has been ready since last year." The whole province, of which you are the head, has been provoked to this ministry through you. "And your zeal has provoked very many." Here zeal is put for imitation. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 9:2: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the n of hinc, an i in hii, the h of Achaia, and the c of caput; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 9.2 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:280; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/9-2). ## 2 Corinthians 9:3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-9-3 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:280 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul sent the brothers so that his boast would prove true. ### Latin text Misi[mus] autem fratres, ut exultatio nostra quam de uobis habemus , non euacuetur in hoc parte , ut quem ad modum dixi , parati sitis. Superius memoratos, qui uos commoneant ne aliter inueniam in parte doctrinae, siue ministerii, quam putabam. ### English translation (Claude) "But I have sent the brothers, so that our boasting about you may not be made void in this respect, so that, as I said, you may be ready." Those mentioned above, to remind you, lest I find you otherwise than I thought in the matter of teaching or of ministry. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 9:3: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets -mus in misimus; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 9.3 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:280; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/9-3). ## 2 Corinthians 9:4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-9-4 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:280 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Unpreparedness would shame both Paul and the Corinthians. ### Latin text Ne, cum uenerint mecum Macedones et inuenerint uos inparatos , erubescamus nos in hoc parte , ut non dicam omnes uos. Si nos erubuerimus quasi falso gloriantes, quanto magis uos et pro uestra negligentia et pro nostro rubore! multa enim confusio est, si quis pro eo quem diligit erubescat. ### English translation (Claude) "Lest, when Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we be put to shame in this matter, not to say you." If we blush as though we had boasted falsely, how much more you, both for your negligence and for our blushing! For it is great confusion when one blushes for someone he loves. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 9:4: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 9.4 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:280; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/9-4). ## 2 Corinthians 9:5 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-9-5 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:280–281 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Gifts must be given cheerfully; greed in teaching is also to be avoided. ### Latin text Necessarium ergo existimaui rogare fratres ut perueniant [ad wos] et praeparent [ante] promissam hanc benedictionem [uestram hanc ] paratam esse . Promissam a nobis benedictionem. Siue: A benedicendo. Siue: Quia per humanitatem eorum benedictio nascitur dei. Sic quasi benedicti[o]nem , non quasi auaritiam. Benedictio erit, si grato animo tribuatur : hilarem enim datorem diligit deus’; auarus autem hilariter dare non nouit: in scientia autem auarus est qui sensum non uult implere quem c[o]epit. inde dominus neminem in uia salutari praecepit, hoc est, nulli transitorie uerbum adnuntiari salutis. ### English translation (Claude) "So I thought it necessary to ask the brothers to go on to you and arrange this promised blessing, that it may be ready." The blessing promised by us. Or: "blessing" from blessing. Or: because through their kindness the blessing of God is born. "As a blessing, not as greed." It will be a blessing if it is given with a grateful mind: for "God loves a cheerful giver"; but the greedy man does not know how to give cheerfully. And in knowledge he is greedy who does not wish to fill out the sense he has begun. Hence the Lord commanded us to greet no one on the way, that is, that the word of salvation be announced to no one in passing. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 9:5: quotation, high confidence - 2 Cor 9:7: quotation, high confidence - Luke 10:4: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "to you," ante, "your this," and the o of benedictionem; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 9.5 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:280–281; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/9-5). ## 2 Corinthians 9:6 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-9-6 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:281 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Sowing and reaping show degrees of merit, against Jovinian. ### Latin text Hoc autem [ dico ]: Qui parce seminat , parce et metet. Contra Iouinianum etiam hic locus facit, ubi meritorum gradus esse monstra[n]tur. [Et] qui seminat in benedictione, ex benedictione [et] metet. [Ergo e contrario in maledictione seminans inde et metet,] sicut scriptum est : ‘ non semines mala in sulcis iniuriae, et non metes illa in septuplum. ### English translation (Claude) "But this: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly." This passage also tells against Jovinian, since it shows that there are degrees of merit. "And he who sows in blessing will also reap from blessing." As it is written: "Do not sow evils in the furrows of injustice, and you will not reap them sevenfold." ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 9:6: quotation, high confidence ### Extrabiblical texts - Sir 7:3 (Sirach): quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The quotation is Sir 7:3. Souter brackets dico, the n of monstrantur, Et, et, and "So conversely he who sows in cursing will reap from it"; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 9.6 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:281; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/9-6). ## 2 Corinthians 9:7 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-9-7 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:281–282 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Giving and teaching must be done willingly and cheerfully. ### Latin text Unus quisque , prout destinauit in corde suo. Id est, uoluntarius, non coactus. Non ex tristitia aut ex necessitate : hilarem enim datorem diligit deus. Secundum sententiam Salomonis: ‘et in omni dato hilarem fac uultum tuum.’ si autem de scientia intellegatur, hilarem in labore suo uult esse doctorem, sicut de se alibi dicit: ‘si enim uolens hoc ago, mercedem habeo’ et reliqua. ### English translation (Claude) "Each one as he has purposed in his heart." That is, willingly, not compelled. "Not from sadness or from necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver." According to the saying of Solomon: "And in every gift make your face cheerful." But if it is understood of knowledge, he wishes the teacher to be cheerful in his labor, as he says of himself elsewhere: "For if I do this willingly, I have a reward," and the rest. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 9:7: quotation, high confidence - 1 Cor 9:17: quotation, high confidence ### Extrabiblical texts - Sir 35:8 (Sirach): quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The "Solomon" saying is Sir 35:8 (35:11 in some numberings). ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 9.7 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:281–282; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/9-7). ## 2 Corinthians 9:8 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-9-8 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:282 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God can supply all grace so that good works abound. ### Latin text Potens est autem deus. Siue: Ne inopiam formidarent. Siue : Gratuitum donum scientiae. Omnem gratiam abundare facere in uobis. Gratiam nascentiae, quia exinde per opera uestra domino gratiae referuntur: ‘a fructu’ enim ‘frumenti uini et olei sui multiplicati sunt.’ Ut in omnibus semper omnem sufficientiam habentes abundemus in omne opus bonum, ### English translation (Claude) "And God is able." Either: lest they fear want. Or: the free gift of knowledge. "To make all grace abound in you." The grace of increase, because thereafter thanks are given to the Lord through your works: for "they were multiplied by the fruit of their grain, wine, and oil." "So that, always having all sufficiency in all things, we may abound in every good work," ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 9:8: quotation, high confidence - Ps 4:7 (4:8 LXX): quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 9.8 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:282; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/9-8). ## 2 Corinthians 9:9 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-9-9 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:282 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Mercy, material or spiritual, wins eternal righteousness. ### Latin text sicut scriptum est. Tam carnalium misericordiarum quam spiritalium, id est, doctrinarum opus bonum possitis implere. Dispersit , dedit pauperibus. Siue : Sensu pauperibus. . Siue: Substantia, sicut superius ait: ‘illorum abundantia[e] uestrae inopiae sit supplementum.’ Iustitia eius manet in aeternum. Rebus temporalibus aeterna iustitia conparatur. ### English translation (Claude) "as it is written." So that you may be able to fulfil the good work both of carnal mercies and of spiritual ones, that is, of teachings. "He scattered, he gave to the poor." Either: by understanding, to the poor. Or: by substance, as he said above: "Let their abundance be a supplement for your want." "His righteousness remains forever." Eternal righteousness is acquired with temporal things. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 9:9: quotation, high confidence - Ps 112:9 (111:9 LXX): quotation, high confidence - 2 Cor 8:14: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the e of abundantiae; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 9.9 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:282; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/9-9). ## 2 Corinthians 9:10 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-9-10 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:282–283 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Possessions are fruits of righteousness when used justly, of iniquity when hoarded. ### Latin text Qui autem administrat semen seminanti , et panem in esca subministrabit. Hoc est, deus, qui tibi dedit unde dispenses, esurire [te] minime patietur: si autem ad semen uerbi refert: qui dedit officium docendi, praestabit et escam, si ad hoc solum uelitis uacare. Et multiplicabit semen uestrum. Humanitatis uel sermonis. Et ampliabit incrementa frugum iustitiae uestrae. Fruges iustitiae sunt facultates, cum de eis fit iustitia: cum uero aut inique congregantur aut ad auaritiam uel superbiam possidentur, fruges iniquitatis fiunt : ‘pretio’ enim ‘grauans triticum in populo maledictus.’ Siue: Fruges iustitiae sermones sunt dei : ‘ de fructu ’ enim ‘ labiorum suorum saturabitur’ sapiens. ### English translation (Claude) "And he who supplies seed to the sower will also supply bread for food." That is, God, who gave you the means to distribute, will not let you go hungry; but if it refers to the seed of the word: he who gave the office of teaching will also provide food, if you are willing to give yourselves to this alone. "And will multiply your seed." Of kindness or of speech. "And will increase the growth of the fruits of your righteousness." Possessions are fruits of righteousness when righteousness is done with them; but when they are gathered unjustly or held for greed or pride, they become fruits of iniquity: for "he who raises the price of grain among the people is cursed." Or: the fruits of righteousness are the words of God: for the wise man "will be satisfied from the fruit of his lips." ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 9:10: quotation, high confidence - Prov 11:26: quotation, high confidence - Prov 18:20: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets te; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 9.10 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:282–283; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/9-10). ## 2 Corinthians 9:11 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-9-11 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:283 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Give simply to all in need without distinction. ### Latin text Ut in omnibus locupletati abundetis in omnem simplicitatem , quae operatur per nos gratiarum actionem deo . Ut sine discretione omnibus simpliciter indigentibus tribuatis, non quaerentes cui, sed qua re detis. ### English translation (Claude) "So that, enriched in all things, you may abound in all simplicity, which works through us thanksgiving to God." That you may give simply to all in need without distinction, asking not to whom but why you give. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 9:11: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 9.11 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:283; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/9-11). ## 2 Corinthians 9:12 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-9-12 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:283 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The collection relieves the saints and produces thanksgiving. ### Latin text Quoniam ministerium [administrationis ] huius officii non solum supplet ea quae desunt sanctis, sed etiam abundat per multarum gratiarum actionem [in] deo. Duplicem potestis habere mercedem, et refectionis sanctorum et gratiarum in domino actionis. Aliter: Non solum docet sanctos, sed et domino gratias operatur, qui uos tanta sapientia erudiuit. ### English translation (Claude) "Because the ministry of this office not only supplies what the saints lack, but also abounds through much thanksgiving to God." You can have a double reward, for the refreshment of the saints and for thanksgiving in the Lord. Otherwise: it not only teaches the saints but also brings about thanks to the Lord, who instructed you with such wisdom. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 9:12: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets administrationis and in; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 9.12 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:283; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/9-12). ## 2 Corinthians 9:13 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-9-13 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:283–284 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Generosity proves the Corinthians' Christian confession by deeds. ### Latin text Per probationem ministerii huius magnificantes deum in subiectionem confessionis uestrae in euangelium Christi. Per hoc ministerium esse probamini Christiani, magnificantes per operum confessionem deum, sicut e contrario alii factis negare dicuntur. Aliter: Quia perfecte docetis et ostenditis diuinum esse in quo deum per oboedientiam magnificatis. Et simplicitate communicationis in illos et in omnes, Simpliciter tribuentes. Siue: Docentes bona, quae communicatis potius quam donatis, certi uos cum multiplici [ea] faenore recepturos. ### English translation (Claude) "Through the proof of this ministry glorifying God for the subjection of your confession to the gospel of Christ." Through this ministry you are proved to be Christians, glorifying God by the confession of works, as on the contrary others are said to deny him by deeds. Otherwise: because you teach perfectly and show that it is divine, in which you glorify God by obedience. "And for the simplicity of your fellowship toward them and toward all," Giving simply. Or: teaching good things, which you share rather than give away, certain that you will receive them back with manifold interest. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 9:13: quotation, high confidence - Titus 1:16: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets ea; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 9.13 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:283–284; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/9-13). ## 2 Corinthians 9:14 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-9-14 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:284 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The saints pray for and long for the generous Corinthians. ### Latin text Et ipsorum obsecratione pro uobis . Haec omnia operatur administratio huius officii, quia etiam in hoc abundat. Desiderantium uos propter superabundantem gratiam dei in uobis . Quis autem non desideret tales propter gratiam, siue scientiae siue misericordiae, ceteris eminentem? ### English translation (Claude) "And with their prayer for you." The administration of this office brings about all these things, because it abounds in this too. "Longing for you because of the surpassing grace of God in you." Who would not long for such people, because of their grace, whether of knowledge or of mercy, outstanding above others? ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 9:14: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 9.14 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:284; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/9-14). ## 2 Corinthians 9:15 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-9-15 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:284 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Thanks to God for his gift of grace. ### Latin text Gratias autem deo [meo] super [in]enarrabili dono eius! Qui tantam uobis gratiam pietate sua conferre dignatus est. ### English translation (Claude) "Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!" Who in his goodness deigned to confer such great grace on you. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 9:15: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets meo and in- in inenarrabili; left out, "indescribable" kept for the sense. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 9.15 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:284; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/9-15). ## 2 Corinthians 10:1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-10-1 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:284–285 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul, humble when present, asks not to have to use his power when he comes. ### Latin text Ipse autem ego Paulus obsecro uos per mansuetudinem et modestiam Christi . Ea uos mansuetudine rogo qu[i]a Christus, cum se posset de iniuriosis ulcisci, [noluit], ut uel sero corrigerent. Qui in facie quidem humilis [sum] inter uos , absens autem confido in uobis . Semper sanctorum praesentia per nimiam humilitatem minus intellegentibus potest esse contemptui : absentes uero, si necesse fuerit, confidenter suam indicant potestatem, qui[a] praesentes sic sunt quasi nihil possint habere uirtutum, si tamen nihil uindicandum reppererint in subiectis. Rogo autem ut non praesens audeam per [eam] fiduciam . Ita agite, ne mihi necesse sit manifestare uirtutem. Qu[i]a existimor audere in aliquos . Non omnis aestimatio falsa est, sicut est: ‘puto autem et ego spiritum dei habeo.’ Qui arbitrantur nos [quod] tamquam secundum carnem ambulemus. Qui putant nos nihil amplius ceteris hominibus habere uirtutis. ### English translation (Claude) "I, Paul, myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ." I ask you with that meekness with which Christ, though he could have avenged himself on those who wronged him, refrained, so that they might correct themselves even late. "I who in face am humble among you, but being absent am bold toward you." The presence of the saints, through their great humility, can always be an object of contempt to those of little understanding; but when absent, if it is necessary, they boldly show their power, because when present they are as if they had no powers, provided they find nothing to punish in those subject to them. "But I beg that I may not, when present, be bold with that confidence." Act so that it may not be necessary for me to show my power. "With which I am thought to be bold against some." Not every thought is false, as in: "And I think that I too have the Spirit of God." "Who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh." Who think that we have no more power than other men. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 10:1: quotation, high confidence - 2 Cor 10:2: quotation, high confidence - 1 Cor 7:40: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The section covers 2 Cor 10:1–2. Souter brackets noluit ("refrained," kept for the sense), sum, the i of quia twice, eam, and quod; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 10.1 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:284–285; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/10-1). ## 2 Corinthians 10:2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-10-2 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:285 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Lemma of 2 Cor 10:3. ### Latin text In carne enim ambulantes non secundum carnem militamus : ### English translation (Claude) "For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh:" ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 10:3: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The staged section 10.2 holds the lemma of 2 Cor 10:3. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 10.2 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:285; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/10-2). ## 2 Corinthians 10:4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-10-4 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:285–286 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The apostles' spiritual weapons destroy the arguments of false teachers. ### Latin text arma enim militiae nostrae non carnalia , sed fortia deo . In corpore uidemur incedere, sed ut dei ministri spiritaliter militamus: arma quippe militiae nostrae non sunt facta de ferro nec manu hominis fabricata sunt, sed potentia dei, qu[i]a plus uerbo ualemus quam alii homines armis carnalibus [possunt]. Ad destructionem inimicorum cogitationes destruentes. Muniunt enim et circumdant doctrinam suam falsi doctores astutia argumentis[que], quae aries apostolicus destruit uirtute gratiae spiritalis, sicut illum magum uias domini peruersis disputationibus subuertentem [Paulus] uerbo caecauit. Et omnem altitudinem extollentem se aduersus scientiam dei . Quid tam superbum quam diuinis contraire doctrinis? [Et] captiuantes omnem intellectum ad oboediendum Christo. Illos destruimus qui sub nomine obsequii Christi omnem intellectum sibi cupiunt captiuare. ### English translation (Claude) "for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty for God." We seem to go about in the body, but as ministers of God we war spiritually: for the weapons of our warfare are not made of iron nor fashioned by human hand, but are the power of God, because we prevail more by a word than other men by carnal arms. "For the destruction of enemies, destroying thoughts." For false teachers fortify and surround their teaching with cunning and arguments, which the apostolic battering ram destroys by the power of spiritual grace, as he blinded with a word that magician who was subverting the ways of the Lord with perverse disputations. "And every height that exalts itself against the knowledge of God." What is so proud as to oppose divine teachings? "And taking every understanding captive to obey Christ." We destroy those who, under the name of service to Christ, wish to take every understanding captive for themselves. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 10:4: quotation, high confidence - 2 Cor 10:5: quotation, high confidence - Acts 13:10: allusion, high confidence - Acts 13:11: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - The section covers 2 Cor 10:4–5. Souter brackets the i of quia, possunt, -que, Paulus, and Et; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 10.4 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:285–286; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/10-4). ## 2 Corinthians 10:6 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-10-6 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:286 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The false teachers falsely claim power to punish the disobedient. ### Latin text Et in promptu habentes ulcisci o[m]nem inoboedientiam , cum impleta fuerit obauditio uestra. Cum iam uestra per nos oboedientia fuerit impleta, illi, si non obaudiantur, potestatem se uindicandi accepisse a domino mentiuntur. ### English translation (Claude) "And being ready to punish all disobedience, when your obedience has been fulfilled." When your obedience has been completed through us, they, if they are not obeyed, falsely claim to have received from the Lord the power of punishing. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 10:6: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the m of omnem; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 10.6 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:286; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/10-6). ## 2 Corinthians 10:7 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-10-7 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:286 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: No one may boast that he alone belongs to Christ. ### Latin text Quae secundum faciem sunt , uidete. Manifesta est rei probatio et facillima intellectu Siue: Ab hypocritis uos cauete, qui in praesentia gloriantur. Si quis confidit sibi esse seruum Christi , hoc cogitet iterum aput se quia, sicut ipse Christi est, ita et nos. Nemo tam stultus est quam qui se solum Christi esse gloriatur. ### English translation (Claude) "Look at the things that are before your face." The proof of the matter is manifest and very easy to understand. Or: beware of hypocrites, who glory in appearance. "If anyone is confident that he is Christ's servant, let him consider this again with himself, that as he is Christ's, so are we." No one is so foolish as he who boasts that he alone is Christ's. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 10:7: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 10.7 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:286; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/10-7). ## 2 Corinthians 10:8 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-10-8 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:286 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul's authority is for building up, unlike the usurped power of false teachers. ### Latin text Si enim aliquid amplius gloriatus fuero de potestate nostra quam [nobis] dedit deus in aedificationem. Nam [et] si me magis potestatem a Christo accepisse dixero quam ceteros, ut apostolus non erubescam, quia et uerum dicam, [et] non gloriae, sed uestrae aedificationis causa conpulsus haec facio. Et non in destructionem uestram, [ut] non erubescam. Illi et usurpatam et in destructionem exercere cupiunt potestatem. ### English translation (Claude) "For even if I boast somewhat more of our power, which God gave for edification." For even if I say that I received more power from Christ than the others, I would not blush, as an apostle, because I would be speaking the truth; and I do this compelled, not for glory but for your edification. "And not for your destruction, I will not be put to shame." They wish to exercise a power both usurped and used for destruction. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 10:8: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets nobis, et twice, and ut; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 10.8 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:286; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/10-8). ## 2 Corinthians 10:9 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-10-9 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:286 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Lemma of 2 Cor 10:9. ### Latin text Ut [autem] non existimer quasi terrens uos per epistulas , ### English translation (Claude) "Lest I seem to be terrifying you by letters," ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 10:9: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets autem; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 10.9 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:286; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/10-9). ## 2 Corinthians 10:10 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-10-10 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:286–287 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul's opponents mock his weak presence. ### Latin text quoniam quidem ‘epistulae,’ inquiunt, ‘graues et fortes sunt , praesentia autem corporis infirma et sermo contemptibilis.’ Hoc ideo dico, ne quis me putet illut comminari quod implere non possum, sicut de me uestri iactitant deceptores. ### English translation (Claude) "for 'his letters,' they say, 'are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible.'" I say this lest anyone think that I threaten what I cannot carry out, as your deceivers boast about me. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 10:10: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 10.10 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:286–287; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/10-10). ## 2 Corinthians 10:11 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-10-11 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:287 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul will act as strongly as he writes, if needed. ### Latin text Hoc ergo cogitet qui eius modi est, quia quales sumus uerbo per epistulas absentes , tales et praesentes [, sumus ] in opere. Qui hoc putat, sciat omnia me posse facere, si necesse sit, quae promitto: nam et oboedientibus per humilitatem infirmus et peccantibus per seueritatem fortis exsisto. ### English translation (Claude) "Let such a one consider this, that what we are in word through letters when absent, such we are also in deed when present." Let him who thinks this know that I can do everything I promise, if it is necessary: for I am weak by humility toward the obedient, and strong by severity toward sinners. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 10:11: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets sumus; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 10.11 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:287; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/10-11). ## 2 Corinthians 10:12 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-10-12 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:287 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul measures himself by God's gift, unlike self-commending rivals. ### Latin text Non enim audemus conferre aut comparare nos quibusdam qui se ipsos commendant. Non audemus ita deum contemnere, ut coaequemur aliquibus qui suis malunt laudibus quam dei gratia commendari, nec de nobis possumus maiora iactare quam sumus. Sed ipsi intra nosmet ipsos metientes . Non excedimus mensurae nostrae terminos. Et comparantes nosmet ipsos nobis. Non maioribus, sicut illi [qui], cum nihil sint, apostolis se non modo aequant, sed etiam anteponunt. ### English translation (Claude) "For we do not dare to class or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves." We do not dare so to despise God as to make ourselves equal with some who prefer to be commended by their own praises rather than by God's grace; nor can we boast greater things about ourselves than we are. "But measuring ourselves within ourselves." We do not exceed the bounds of our measure. "And comparing ourselves with ourselves." Not with greater ones, like those who, though they are nothing, not only make themselves equal to the apostles but even put themselves before them. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 10:12: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets qui; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 10.12 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:287; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/10-12). ## 2 Corinthians 10:13 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-10-13 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:287 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Lemma of 2 Cor 10:13. ### Latin text Non autem in inmensum gloriantes , sed secundum mensuram regulae , quam mensus est nobis deus mensuram pertingendi usque ad uos: ### English translation (Claude) "But we will not boast beyond measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God has measured to us, a measure reaching even to you:" ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 10:13: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The comment follows in the next section. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 10.13 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:287; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/10-13). ## 2 Corinthians 10:14 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-10-14 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:287–288 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul preached at Corinth by God's commission, not by usurpation. ### Latin text non enim quasi non pertingentes [usque] ad uos super extendimus nos. Nihil supra humanam mensuram, sed in apostolatus gratia, quantum nobis dominus donare dignatus est, per quam etiam uobis Corinthiis praedicauimus: nec enim hoc ipsum usurpatione fecimus, sed praecepto. Usque ad uos enim peruenimus in euangelio Christi . Non nostro, sicut illi[,qui se] praedicando suum faciunt euangelium. ### English translation (Claude) "for we are not overextending ourselves, as though we did not reach to you." Nothing beyond human measure, but in the grace of apostleship, as much as the Lord deigned to give us, through which we also preached to you Corinthians; nor did we do this by usurpation, but by command. "For we came as far as you in the gospel of Christ." Not ours, like those who by preaching make the gospel their own. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 10:14: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets usque and "who themselves"; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 10.14 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:287–288; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/10-14). ## 2 Corinthians 10:15 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-10-15 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:288 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The rivals boast in others' labors; Paul looks to God for his reward. ### Latin text Non in immensum gloriantes in alienis laboribus. [Inmensum est in alienis laboribus] gloriari : illi enim semper ad fideles ibant, qui signa minime requirebant. Spem autem habentes crescenti[s] fidei uestrae in uobis magnificari secundum regulam nostram. Non munera [a] uobis, sed mercedem a deo uestrae fidei expectamus. In abundantia[m] ### English translation (Claude) "Not boasting beyond measure in other men's labors." For they always went to the faithful, who did not require signs. "But having hope that, as your faith grows, we shall be magnified in you according to our rule." We expect not gifts from you, but a reward from God for your faith. "Unto abundance" ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 10:15: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "It is beyond measure to boast in other men's labors," the s of crescentis, a, and the m of abundantiam; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 10.15 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:288; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/10-15). ## 2 Corinthians 10:16 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-10-16 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:288 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul will move on to new regions rather than boast in others' work. ### Latin text in illa quae ultra uos sunt , euangelizare . Non enim usque ad uos sufficiet peruenisse, sed, cum uestra fide[s] creuerit, alio transiemus. [Non in aliena regula] in his quae praeparata sunt ad gloriam. Sicut illi in praeparatis iam ab aliis inpudenter gloriantur. ### English translation (Claude) "to preach the gospel in the regions beyond you." For it will not suffice to have reached as far as you; but when your faith has grown, we will move on elsewhere. "[Not in another's rule,] in the things prepared, to boast." As they shamelessly boast in what has already been prepared by others. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 10:16: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the s of fides and "not in another's rule" in the lemma; the lemma words are kept in brackets for the sense. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 10.16 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:288; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/10-16). ## 2 Corinthians 10:17 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-10-17 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:288 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: All glorying belongs to the Lord. ### Latin text Qui autem [in domino ] gloriatur , in domino glorietur . Etiam qui debet gloriari, in domino, cuius in eo uirtutes operatae sunt, [ut] glorietur. ### English translation (Claude) "But he who glories, let him glory in the Lord." Even one who has reason to glory should glory in the Lord, whose powers have been worked in him. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 10:17: quotation, high confidence - Jer 9:24: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "in the Lord" in the first clause and ut; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 10.17 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:288; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/10-17). ## 2 Corinthians 10:18 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/7-1/#p-10-18 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:288–289 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God commends his servants by signs. ### Latin text Non enim qui se ipsum commendat , probatus est, sed quem dominus commendat. Se ipsum commendat qui ipse se laudat; illum uero dominus commendat, qui signorum uirtutibus commendatur. ### English translation (Claude) "For not he who commends himself is approved, but he whom the Lord commends." He commends himself who praises himself; but the Lord commends him who is commended by the powers of signs. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 10:18: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 10.18 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:288–289; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/10-18). ## 2 Corinthians 11:1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-1 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:289 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul's "foolish" boasting exposes those who praise themselves falsely. ### Latin text Utinam sustineretis modicum quid. Sustinete me uel parum, qui alios multum sustinere consue[ui]stis. Insipientiae meae. Insipientem se dicit, quia illi necesse erat aliqua de se dicere, licet uera, ut ostendat quam uere insipientes sint qui falso se laudant. Sed et supportate me: ### English translation (Claude) "Would that you would bear with a little" Bear with me even a little, you who have been accustomed to bear much with others. "of my foolishness." He calls himself foolish because he had to say some things about himself, though true, to show how truly foolish are those who praise themselves falsely. "But do bear with me:" ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:1: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets -ui- in consueuistis; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.1 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:289; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1). ## 2 Corinthians 11:2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-2 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:289 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul guards the church as a father keeps a virgin for her bridegroom, Christ. ### Latin text aemulor enim uos dei aemulatione: despondi enim uos uni uiro uirginem castam adsignare Christo. Non in illos stimulo liuoris inflammor, sed uos tamquam pater diuina aemulatione custodio, ut possim u[o]s inmaculatos Christo coniungere, tanto maiore studio conseruatos quanto meliori estis sponso iungendi. ### English translation (Claude) "for I am jealous for you with the jealousy of God: for I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ." I am not inflamed against them by the goad of envy, but like a father I guard you with divine jealousy, so that I may join you spotless to Christ, kept with so much greater zeal as you are to be joined to a better bridegroom. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:2: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the o of uos; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.2 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:289; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-2). ## 2 Corinthians 11:3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-3 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:289–290 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: As the serpent deceived Eve, false teachers deny the reality and eternity of hell. ### Latin text Timeo autem ne sicut serpens Euam seduxit astutia sua , sic uestri sensus corrumpantur . Serpens Euam de deo mentiendo seduxit, adfirmans solo terrore deum comminatum esse mortem, non etiam inlaturum. ita et pseudo-apostoli adserebant ideo euangelii praecepta addita, ut uel sic lex antiqua seruaretur, et eam solam sufficere custoditam. per quorum imitatores etiam [nunc] serpens similiter quosdam seducit [femineos mores habentes], gehennam propter solum terrorem adserens nominari, quam aut penitus non esse aut aeternam non esse adfirmant contra auctoritatem omnium scripturarum. Et excidant a simplicitate . Qua dei uerbis simpliciter credere debetis, non hominum peruersorum. Et castitate quae est in Christo [ Iesu ]. [Castitas] castus sensus est, qui [in] uni uiro coniungitur Christo, et solius illi semel promissa sufficiunt. ### English translation (Claude) "But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his cunning, so your minds be corrupted." The serpent seduced Eve by lying about God, asserting that God had threatened death only to frighten, not that he would inflict it. So too the false apostles asserted that the precepts of the gospel had been added only so that at least in this way the old law might be kept, and that the law alone, if kept, sufficed. Through their imitators the serpent in the same way seduces some, asserting that hell is named only to frighten; they affirm that it either does not exist at all or is not eternal, against the authority of all the scriptures. "And fall away from the simplicity." With which you ought simply to believe the words of God, not of perverse men. "And the chastity which is in Christ." Chastity is a chaste mind, which is joined to one husband, Christ, and is content with what he alone has once promised. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:3: quotation, high confidence - Gen 3:4: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets nunc ("now"), "who have womanish ways," Iesu, Castitas, and in; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.3 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:289–290; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-3). ## 2 Corinthians 11:4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-4 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:290 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Only a better gospel could justify preferring the rivals. ### Latin text Nam si his qui ueni[un]t [ad uos] alium Christum praedica[ri]t, quem [nos] non praedicauimus , aut alium spiritum accepistis, quem non accepimus, aut aliut euangelium, [ quod non recepistis,] recte pateremini. Si uobis amplius [aliquid] gratiae praestarent quam per nos accepistis, recte eos nobis praeponi forsitan pateremini. ### English translation (Claude) "For if he who comes preaches another Christ, whom we did not preach, or you receive another spirit, which we did not receive, or another gospel, you would rightly bear with it." If they offered you more grace than you received through us, you would perhaps rightly allow them to be preferred to us. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:4: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets -un- in ueniunt, "to you," -ri- in praedicarit, nos, "which you did not receive," and aliquid; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.4 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:290; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-4). ## 2 Corinthians 11:5 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-5 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:290 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul is not inferior to the great apostles. ### Latin text Existimo enim me in nullo inferiorem fuisse a magnis apostolis. Quanto magis ab istis qui sunt nihil! Siue: [Ne] putetis uos ab illis ecclesiis quibus Petrus et ceteri praedicauerunt, minus aliquid accepisse. ### English translation (Claude) "For I think that I was in nothing inferior to the great apostles." How much more to these, who are nothing! Or: lest you think you received anything less than those churches to which Peter and the rest preached. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:5: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets Ne ("lest"), kept for the sense; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.5 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:290; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-5). ## 2 Corinthians 11:6 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-6 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:290–291 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul lacks eloquence, not knowledge, and sought nothing for himself. ### Latin text Et si imperitus [sum] sermone , sed non scientia. Non ut isti qui, cum sint scientia imperiti, [in] sermone tumido gloria[n]tur. In omnibus [autem] manifestatus sum [in] uobis. Ostendit integritatem suam, qu[i]a secundum deum omnia fecerit, cum nec auaritiam nec gulam neque gloriam ab eis aliquando quaesierit. ### English translation (Claude) "And even if I am unskilled in speech, yet not in knowledge." Not like these who, though unskilled in knowledge, glory in swollen speech. "But in all things I have been made manifest to you." He shows his integrity, that he did everything according to God, since he never sought from them anything for greed, gluttony, or glory. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:6: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets sum, in twice, the n of gloriantur, autem, and the i of quia; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.6 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:290–291; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-6). ## 2 Corinthians 11:7 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-7 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:291 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul preached free of charge, forgoing even his right to bread. ### Latin text Aut numquid peccatum feci , me ipse humilians, ut uos exaltemini? Si forte hoc solum peccaui, quia propter uos et[iam] licita et concessa contempsi. Quoniam gratis euangelium dei euangelizaui uobis. Quia nec panem [quidem] cotidianum, quem ordinauit dominus, a uobis accepi[mus]. ### English translation (Claude) "Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted?" If perhaps I sinned only in this, that for your sake I despised even what was lawful and granted. "Because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge." Because I did not accept from you even the daily bread which the Lord ordained. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:7: quotation, high confidence - 1 Cor 9:14: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets -iam in etiam, quidem, and -mus in accepimus; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.7 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:291; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-7). ## 2 Corinthians 11:8 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-8 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:291 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Macedonians supported Paul while he preached at Corinth. ### Latin text Alias ecclesias expoliaui, accipiens stipendium in ministerium uestrum. Cum uobis praedicarem, mihi Macedones ministrabant. ### English translation (Claude) "I robbed other churches, taking wages for ministry to you." When I preached to you, the Macedonians ministered to me. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:8: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.8 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:291; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-8). ## 2 Corinthians 11:9 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-9 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:291 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul accepted nothing from the Corinthians for the sake of the weak. ### Latin text Et cum apud uos essem et egerem, nulli grauis fui. Hoc fuit ex ueritate infirmitatem portare paruulorum, ut nec tunc quidem uellet accipere cum egeret. Nam [id] quod mihi deerat , adimpleuerunt fratres qui uenerunt a Macedonia . Quod non occurrebam manibus laborando, [adimpleuerunt fratres,] qui non erant infirmi nec pseudo-apostolos susceperant, quin immo reuincebant. Et [in omnibus] sine onere [uestro] me [uobis] seruaui et seru[ab]o. Quam diu infirmos habueritis inter uos. ### English translation (Claude) "And when I was with you and in need, I was a burden to no one." This was truly to bear the weakness of little ones, that he would not accept anything even when he was in need. "For what I lacked the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied." What I did not cover by working with my hands, the brothers supplied, who were not weak and had not received the false apostles, but rather refuted them. "And I have kept myself and will keep myself without burden." As long as you have weak people among you. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:9: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets id, "the brothers supplied," "in all things," uestro, uobis, and -ab- in seruabo; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.9 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:291; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-9). ## 2 Corinthians 11:10 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-10 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:291–292 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul refuses support out of love, not coldness. ### Latin text Est ueritas Christi in me. Sicut Christus quod semel statuit, non mutauit, nec est aliquando mentitus, ita faciam. Quoniam haec gloria[tio ] non infringitur in me in regionibus Achaiae. Gloria est propter deum etiam concessa contemnere, praecipue si inopiam patiatur. Quare? quia uos non diligo? deus scit. Ipse nouit utrum uos diligam an non: immo ideo a uobis non accipio, quia multum uos diligo. ### English translation (Claude) "The truth of Christ is in me." As Christ did not change what he once determined, nor ever lied, so I will do. "That this boasting will not be broken in me in the regions of Achaia." It is glory, for God's sake, to despise even what is granted, especially if one suffers want. "Why? Because I do not love you? God knows." He himself knows whether I love you or not: on the contrary, I accept nothing from you because I love you much. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:10: quotation, high confidence - 2 Cor 11:11: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The section covers 2 Cor 11:10–11. Souter brackets -tio in gloriatio; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.10 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:291–292; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-10). ## 2 Corinthians 11:12 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-12 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:292 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul accepts nothing so that greedy rivals have no pretext. ### Latin text Quod autem facio et facturus sum , ut amputem occasionem eorum qui uolunt occasionem , ut in quo gloriantur [tales] inueniantur sicut et nos. Hic reddit causam qua re ipse non acciperet, et aduersarii cur docerent gulam auaritiamque sectantes, quaerentes per Paulum aditum inuenire lucrandi, ut, si [hic uel] panem acciperet, illi aurum licentius exigerent. ideo tollit occasionem apostolus, ut in hoc apparea[n]t quia propter deum docent, si a discipulis nihil expectent. [Aliter: Unus quisque doctor, nisi fructum laboris uiderit, non docebit, alius pecuniam, alius laudem, alius [quaerit] profectum.} ### English translation (Claude) "But what I do I will also do, so that I may cut off the occasion from those who want an occasion, so that in what they boast they may be found as we are." Here he gives the reason why he himself did not accept anything, and why his adversaries, pursuing gluttony and greed, were teaching: they sought through Paul to find a way to gain, so that, if he accepted even bread, they might demand gold more freely. Therefore the apostle takes away the occasion, so that in this it may appear whether they teach for God's sake, if they expect nothing from disciples. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:12: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets tales, "he even," the n of appareant, and a passage, left out: "Otherwise: no teacher will teach unless he sees the fruit of his labor; one seeks money, another praise, another progress." ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.12 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:292; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-12). ## 2 Corinthians 11:13 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-13 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:292–293 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: False apostles flatter for gain or honor; true teachers imitate the apostles' simplicity. ### Latin text Nam eius modi pseudo-apostoli [sunt]. Dicentes : “ Haec dicit dominus,” cum ipse non miserit eos, et uisiones a corde suo [e]loquuntur. Operarii subdoli , transfigurant[es ] se in apostolos Christi. Subdolus est qui aliut fingit cum aliut agit, ut sub contemplatione euangelicae praedicationis contegat rapacitatem: tales enim praedicatores, ut hominibus placeant, necesse est adulari. [et] ut adulando placeant et placendo decipiant, ea quae se commendent dicturi sunt, non quae aedificent audientem. plerique sane non tam pecuniam desiderant quam honorem, arbitrantes se summis opibus esse ditatos, si ab hominibus conlaudentur, sed nec pecunias ideo spernunt quia non ament, sed quia in reconditis habent, nec contemnunt quod habent, sed quaerunt quod non habent. ueri autem et simplices magistri apostolos imitantur dicentes: ‘neque enim fuimus in sermone adulationis aliquando nec in occasione auaritiae, nec quaerentes ab hominibus gloriam neque a uobis neque ab aliis.’ ### English translation (Claude) "For such are false apostles." Saying, "Thus says the Lord," when he did not send them, and they speak visions from their own heart. "Deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ." He is deceitful who pretends one thing while doing another, so as to cover rapacity under the show of gospel preaching: for such preachers, to please men, must flatter; to please by flattering and deceive by pleasing, they will say what commends themselves, not what builds up the hearer. Many indeed desire not so much money as honor, thinking themselves enriched with the greatest wealth if they are praised by men; yet they do not despise money because they do not love it, but because they have it stored away; nor do they despise what they have, but seek what they do not have. But true and simple teachers imitate the apostles, who say: "For we never came with words of flattery, nor with a pretext for greed, nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from others." ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:13: quotation, high confidence - Jer 23:16: allusion, high confidence - Jer 23:21: allusion, high confidence - 1 Thess 2:5: quotation, high confidence - 1 Thess 2:6: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets sunt, the e of eloquuntur, -es in transfigurantes, and et; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.13 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:292–293; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-13). ## 2 Corinthians 11:14 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-14 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:293–294 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Visions and dreams must be tested, since Satan poses as an angel of light. ### Latin text Neque mirum, cum ipse satanas transfiguret se in angelum lucis. Non est tam facile somniis aut aliquibus uisionibus quasi angelici[s] fides habenda, ne forte transfiguret se satanas in angelum lucis, et decipiat ac fallat incautos. ### English translation (Claude) "And no wonder, since Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light." Belief should not be given so easily to dreams or to visions as if they were angelic, lest Satan perhaps transform himself into an angel of light and deceive and mislead the unwary. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:14: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.14 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:293–294; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-14). ## 2 Corinthians 11:15 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-15 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:294 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Satan's ministers pose as preachers of righteousness, but will be judged by their works. ### Latin text Non est ergo magnum si ministri eius transfigurentur uelut ministri iustitiae . Non mirum si ministri satanae auaritiae uel gloriae causa fingant se iustitiam praedicare. Quorum finis erit secundum opera ipsorum . Mala opera malus finis expectat. ### English translation (Claude) "So it is no great thing if his ministers transform themselves as ministers of righteousness." No wonder if Satan's ministers, for the sake of greed or glory, pretend to preach righteousness. "Whose end will be according to their works." An evil end awaits evil works. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:15: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.15 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:294; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-15). ## 2 Corinthians 11:16 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-16 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:294 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul's "foolish" boasting is wise, meant to keep the Corinthians from false apostles. ### Latin text Iterum dico , ne quis me putet insipientem. alioquin uelut insipientem accipite me , ut et ego modicum quid glorier. Iam enim superius dixerat : ‘sustinete modicum quid insipientiae meae,’ et reddiderat rationem quod zelo dei eos zelaret. non gloriae desiderio esset de se aliqua narraturus, sed ne [in] eius odium uersi falsos apostolos sequerentur. si ergo insipientia eius tam sapiens est, qu[oni]am sapiens erit ipsa sapientia! simul notandum quod mirum esse non debeat, si ad tempus falsa doctrina praeualeat, cuius auctoribus in fine uindicta promittitur. ### English translation (Claude) "Again I say, let no one think me foolish; otherwise receive me as foolish, so that I too may boast a little." He had already said above: "Bear with a little of my foolishness," and had given the reason, that he was jealous for them with God's jealousy: he would tell something of himself not from a desire for glory, but lest, turned to hatred of him, they follow the false apostles. If then his foolishness is so wise, how wise will wisdom itself be! At the same time it is to be noted that it should not seem strange if false teaching prevails for a time, since punishment is promised to its authors at the end. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:16: quotation, high confidence - 2 Cor 11:1: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets in and -oni- in quoniam; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.16 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:294; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-16). ## 2 Corinthians 11:17 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-17 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:294 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul's boasting is forced; others boast from vanity. ### Latin text Quod loquor , non loquor secundum deum, sed ut in insipientia[m]. Si hic necessitate populi [dei] conpulsus negat secundum deum se gloriari, quid de illis sentiendum est qui sola iactantia gloriantur ! In hoc substantia gloriationis. Est enim alia uera substantia gloriandi. ### English translation (Claude) "What I say I do not say according to God, but as in foolishness." If he, compelled by the needs of the people, denies that he boasts according to God, what is to be thought of those who boast from mere vanity! "In this substance of boasting." For there is another, true substance of boasting. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:17: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the m of insipientiam and dei ("of God"); left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.17 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:294; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-17). ## 2 Corinthians 11:18 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-18 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:294–295 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Boasting in descent is carnal. ### Latin text Qu[on]ia[m] multi gloriantur , et ego secundum carnem gloriabor. Quoniam in nobilitate terreni generis gloriari carnale est. ### English translation (Claude) "Since many boast, I too will boast according to the flesh." Because boasting in the nobility of earthly descent is carnal. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:18: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets letters of quoniam; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.18 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:294–295; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-18). ## 2 Corinthians 11:19 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-19 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:295 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The Corinthians too readily listened to boasting fools. ### Latin text Libenter enim suffertis insipientes, cum sitis ipsi sapientes. Uideo enim uos, cum edocti sitis ista nullius esse momenti, facile insipientibus consensisse. ### English translation (Claude) "For you gladly bear with fools, since you yourselves are wise." For I see that you, though taught that these things are of no account, easily agreed with fools. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:19: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.19 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:295; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-19). ## 2 Corinthians 11:20 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-20 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:295 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The Corinthians tolerated domineering, greedy, proud teachers. ### Latin text Sustinetis enim , si quis uos in seruitutem redegerit. Legis uel Pharisaeorum, qui dominatum in populo exercebant. Si quis deuorat. [Si quis accipit.] Conuiuiis uel muneribus. Si quis accipit. Pecuniam. Si quis extollitur. Iudaica superbia, uel de scientia uel de generis qualitate. Si quis in faciem uos caedit. Si quis etiam praesentes obiurgat. ### English translation (Claude) "For you bear it if someone brings you into slavery." Of the law or of the Pharisees, who exercised dominion over the people. "If someone devours." By banquets or gifts. "If someone takes." Money. "If someone exalts himself." With Jewish pride, about knowledge or the quality of his descent. "If someone strikes you in the face." If someone even rebukes you to your face. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:20: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets a repeated "If someone takes"; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.20 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:295; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-20). ## 2 Corinthians 11:21 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-21 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:295 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Sons of God dishonor themselves by boasting of earthly nobility. ### Latin text Secundum ignobilitatem dico. Ignobilitas enim maxima est, si filii dei [de] terrena nobilitate se iactent. Quasi nos infirmi fuerimus [in hoc parte], in quo quis audet. Quasi nos in hac parte ab illis minus aliquid habeamus. In insipientia[m] dico , audeo et ego. Possum audere, si uolo. ### English translation (Claude) "I speak according to dishonor." For it is the greatest dishonor for sons of God to boast of earthly nobility. "As though we had been weak, in which anyone dares." As though we had something less than they in this respect. "I speak in foolishness: I too dare." I can dare, if I wish. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:21: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets de, "in this respect," and the m of insipientiam; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.21 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:295; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-21). ## 2 Corinthians 11:22 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-22 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:295 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul matches his rivals' Jewish descent. ### Latin text Hebraei sunt , et ego: Istrahelitae sunt , et ego: semen Abrahae sunt , et ego. Si in hoc gloriantur, et ego huius sum gentis. ### English translation (Claude) "Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I." If they boast in this, I too am of this race. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:22: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.22 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:295; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-22). ## 2 Corinthians 11:23 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-23 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:295 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Even boasting of ministry is unwise, but Paul's sufferings exceed all. ### Latin text Ministri Christi sunt[, et ego]: ut minus sapiens dico: ‘magis ego.’ Notandum quia, si quis de Christi saltim ministerio glorietur, non sapienter hoc faci[a]t. In laboribus plurimis , in carceribus abundantius, in plagis super modum , in mortibus frequenter. ### English translation (Claude) "Are they ministers of Christ? I speak as less wise: I more." It is to be noted that if anyone boasts even of the ministry of Christ, he does not do this wisely. "In very many labors, in prisons more abundantly, in beatings beyond measure, in deaths often." ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:23: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "so am I" and the a of faciat; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.23 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:295; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-23). ## 2 Corinthians 11:24 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-24 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:295–296 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul was flogged five times as a supposed lawbreaker. ### Latin text a Iudaeis quinquies quadragenas una minus accepi. Quinque uicibus tricenas et nouenas quasi transgressor legis accepit: haec autem in Actibus [Apostolorum] non omnia repperiuntur, quia nec in Epistolis omnia quae ibi scripta sunt continentur. ### English translation (Claude) "From the Jews five times I received forty lashes less one." Five times he received thirty-nine as a transgressor of the law. Not all these things are found in the Acts, because neither are all the things written there contained in the Letters. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:24: quotation, high confidence - Deut 25:3: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets Apostolorum; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.24 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:295–296; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-24). ## 2 Corinthians 11:25 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-25 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul lists beatings, stoning, and shipwrecks. ### Latin text Ter uirgis caesus sum; semel lapidatus sum; ter naufragium feci ; nocte et die in profundum maris fui . In ultimo periculo, cum nauem in profundum tempestate deductam mole fluctuum operiri putaremus.. ### English translation (Claude) "Three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was in the depth of the sea." In the utmost danger, when we thought the ship, driven into the deep by the storm, would be covered by the mass of the waves. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:25: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.25 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-25). ## 2 Corinthians 11:26 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-26 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul faced dangers everywhere, even from false brothers. ### Latin text [In] itineribus saepe ; periculis fluminum, periculis latronum, periculis ex genere, periculis ex gentibus, periculis in ciuitate , periculis in deserto, periculis in mari, periculis in falsis fratribus. ‘Qui nostram explorare subintroierant libertatem.’ ### English translation (Claude) "On journeys often; in dangers of rivers, dangers of robbers, dangers from my own race, dangers from the gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the desert, dangers at sea, dangers among false brothers." "Who had slipped in to spy out our liberty." ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:26: quotation, high confidence - Gal 2:4: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets In; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.26 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-26). ## 2 Corinthians 11:27 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-27 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Hunger is forced, fasting chosen. ### Latin text In laboribus , in miseriis , in uigiliis multis, in fame et siti, in ieiuniis multis . Fames necessita[ti]s est, ieiunium uoluntatis. In frigore et nuditate , ### English translation (Claude) "In labors, in miseries, in many vigils, in hunger and thirst, in many fastings." Hunger is of necessity, fasting of will. "In cold and nakedness," ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:27: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets -ti- in necessitatis; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.27 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-27). ## 2 Corinthians 11:28 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-28 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Beyond outward trials Paul bears care for all the churches. ### Latin text praeter illa quae extrinsecus sunt , instantia mea cotidiana, sollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum. Praeter illa quae per consuetudinem leuiora esse uidentur. ### English translation (Claude) "besides those things that are without, my daily pressure, the care of all the churches." Besides those things which through habit seem lighter. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:28: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.28 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-28). ## 2 Corinthians 11:29 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-29 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul shares the weakness and grief of every believer. ### Latin text Quis infirmatur et ego non infirmo[r]? quis scandalizatur et ego non uror? Cum infirmantibus infirmor, cum pereuntibus perire me credo : sic enim uror tristitia, ut animo ardere me sentiam. ### English translation (Claude) "Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn?" With the weak I am weak; with those who perish I think that I perish: for I so burn with sadness that I feel my mind on fire. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:29: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the r of infirmor; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.29 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-29). ## 2 Corinthians 11:30 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-30 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul boasts only in his weakness. ### Latin text Si gloriari oportet . Iam si gloriari necesse est in his quae non ad laetitiam, sed ad maerorem pertinent, gloriabor. Quae infirmitatis meae sunt gloriabor . Omnes superiores necessitates uno infirmitatis nomine definiuit, eo quod humanae infirmitati ista praeualeant. ### English translation (Claude) "If I must boast." If it is now necessary to boast in things that pertain not to joy but to grief, I will boast. "I will boast of the things that are of my weakness." He defined all the necessities above by the one name of weakness, because they prevail over human weakness. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:30: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.30 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-30). ## 2 Corinthians 11:31 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-31 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Lemma of 2 Cor 11:31. ### Latin text Deus et pater domini nostri Iesu Christi scit , qui est benedictus in saecula , quod non mentior. ### English translation (Claude) "The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, knows that I do not lie." ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:31: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The comment follows at 11:33. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.31 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-31). ## 2 Corinthians 11:32 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-32 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296–297 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Lemma of 2 Cor 11:32. ### Latin text Damasci praepositus gentis [princeps] Aret[h]ae regis custodiebat ciuitatem Damascenorum, ut me conprehenderet, ### English translation (Claude) "At Damascus the governor of the nation under King Aretas was guarding the city of the Damascenes, in order to seize me," ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:32: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets princeps and the h of Arethae; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.32 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:296–297; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-32). ## 2 Corinthians 11:33 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-11-33 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:297 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul calls God to witness that even kings conspired against him in vain. ### Latin text et per fenestram in sporta[m ] sum missus [non] per murum et sic effugi manus eius . Rem quasi [diffieilem] dicturus, quod Iudaei contra eum etiam principes gentium concitassent, ante implorat testimonium dei, ne uere hoc iactantiae putaretur, quod aduersus eum etiam regna surrexerint et nihil potuerint praeualere. haec autem [omnia] idcirco enumerat, ut ostendat quid sit inter ueros et falsos apostolos. [‘ Damasci praepositus. ’] Praepositus gentis illius erat ubi regnabat Ar[a]etha. ### English translation (Claude) "and I was let down in a basket through a window by the wall, and so escaped his hands." About to tell something as it were hard to believe, that the Jews had stirred up even the rulers of the gentiles against him, he first calls on God's testimony, lest it be thought a boast that even kingdoms rose against him and could not prevail. He lists all these things to show the difference between true and false apostles. He was the governor of that nation where Aretas reigned. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 11:33: quotation, high confidence - Acts 9:25: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the m of sportam, non, difficilem, omnia, a repeated lemma ("the governor of Damascus"), and an a in Araetha; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 11.33 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:297; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-33). ## 2 Corinthians 12:1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-12-1 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:297 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul credits his visions to the Lord, his weaknesses to himself. ### Latin text [Si] gloriari oportet , [et] non expedit mihi . Nec mihi expedit, qui necessitate conpellor. Ueniam autem ad uisiones et reuelationes domini . Sibi infirmitates reputat, domino uisiones adscribit. ### English translation (Claude) "If I must boast, it is not expedient for me." Nor is it expedient for me, who am compelled by necessity. "But I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord." He attributes weaknesses to himself; visions he ascribes to the Lord. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 12:1: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets Si and et; left out, "If" kept for the sense. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.1 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:297; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-1). ## 2 Corinthians 12:2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-12-2 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:297–298 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul, perhaps speaking of himself, reveals a vision hidden for fourteen years. ### Latin text Scio hominem in Christo . Siue [de se] humilitatis causa in alterius persona loquatur, siue de alio, [uere] potest utrumque constare. Ante annos XIIII, siue in corpore, [nescio,] siue extra corpus, nescio , deus scit: raptum huius modi usque ad tertium caelum . Uide quanta necessitas fuit, ut quod annis XIIII celauerat, prodere cogeretur. ### English translation (Claude) "I know a man in Christ." Whether he speaks in another's person for the sake of humility, or of another, both can hold. "Fourteen years ago, whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows: such a one was caught up to the third heaven." See how great the necessity was, that he was compelled to disclose what he had concealed for fourteen years. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 12:2: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "about himself," uere, and the first nescio; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.2 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:297–298; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-2). ## 2 Corinthians 12:3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-12-3 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:298 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Lemma of 2 Cor 12:3. ### Latin text Et scio [scio] huius modi hominem, (siue in corpore siue extra corpus, nescio: deus scit,) ### English translation (Claude) "And I know such a man (whether in the body or out of the body I do not know: God knows)," ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 12:3: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets a repeated scio; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.3 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:298; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-3). ## 2 Corinthians 12:4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-12-4 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:298 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul heard unspeakable words in a second vision. ### Latin text quoniam raptus est in paradisum. Quod iterum repetit, ostendit alteram fuisse uisionem. Et audiuit arcana uerba, quae non licet homini[bus] loqui . Siue : Quae nulli dici fas est. Siue : Quae inpossibile est humanam enarrare naturam [ :hoc contra Arrium]. ### English translation (Claude) "that he was caught up into paradise." That he repeats it shows that there was a second vision. "And heard secret words which it is not permitted for man to speak." Either: which it is not lawful to tell anyone. Or: which human nature cannot express. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 12:4: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets -bus in hominibus and "this against Arius"; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.4 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:298; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-4). ## 2 Corinthians 12:5 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-12-5 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:298 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The revelation is God's, so Paul boasts only of weakness. ### Latin text Pro eius modi gloriabor, pro me autem nihil [gloriabor ] nisi in infirmitatibus meis . [Pro eius modi] uisione uel homine[,pro me autem nihil], Aliter: Non gloriabor in mea uirtute, quia non est reuelatio mea, sed dei. ### English translation (Claude) "On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf nothing, except in my weaknesses." Of the vision or of the man. Otherwise: I will not boast in my own power, because the revelation is not mine but God's. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 12:5: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets gloriabor and parts of the comment ("Of such a one," "but of myself nothing"); left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.5 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:298; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-5). ## 2 Corinthians 12:6 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-12-6 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:298 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul refrains from boasting so as to be judged by what is seen. ### Latin text Nam et si uoluero gloriari , non ero stultus: [iam] enim ueritatem dicam. Hic uidetur ostendere quod de alio dicat, cum etiam [se] dicat causas gloriandi habere, se[d] nolle. Parco autem, ne quis me existimet supra id quod uidet [me] aut audit [quid] ex me. Sufficiunt manifesta, etiam si celentur occulta. ### English translation (Claude) "For even if I wish to boast, I will not be foolish: for I will speak the truth." Here he seems to show that he is speaking of another, since he says that he has reasons for boasting but does not wish to. "But I refrain, lest anyone think of me beyond what he sees or hears from me." The manifest things suffice, even if hidden ones are concealed. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 12:6: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets iam, se, the d of sed, me, and quid; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.6 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:298; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-6). ## 2 Corinthians 12:7 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-12-7 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:298–299 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul's thorn kept him humble; some think it was headaches. ### Latin text Et ne magnitudo reuelationum extollat me, datus est mihi stimulus carnis meae, angelus satanae. Quanta putatis esse quae celo, ut merito mihi esset stimulus necessarius, qui me hominem esse semper mihi[met] demonstraret ! Ut me colaphizet[,ut non extollar]. Aut tribulationes suscitando aut dolores: quidam enim dicunt eum frequenti dolore capitis laborasse. ### English translation (Claude) "And lest the greatness of the revelations exalt me, there was given me a goad of my flesh, an angel of Satan." How great do you think the things are that I conceal, that I rightly needed a goad to show me always that I am a man! "To buffet me." Either by stirring up tribulations or pains: for some say he suffered from frequent headaches. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 12:7: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets -met in mihimet and "lest I be exalted"; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.7 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:298–299; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-7). ## 2 Corinthians 12:8 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-12-8 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:299 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Lemma of 2 Cor 12:8. ### Latin text Propter quod ter dominum rogaui ut discederet a me, ### English translation (Claude) "For this I asked the Lord three times that it might depart from me," ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 12:8: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.8 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:299; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-8). ## 2 Corinthians 12:9 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-12-9 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:299 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Even saints may ask what cannot be granted; persistent prayer earns an answer. ### Latin text et dixit mihi : Sufficit tibi gratia mea; nam uirtus in infirmitate perficitur. Hi[n]c intellegimus etiam sanctos ignoranter non numquam aliqua [in]impetrabilia postulasse. simul etiam discimus quod inportuna petitio uel responsum mereatur, si non meretur effectum. Libentissime magis itaque gloriabor in infirmitatibus meis, ut inhabitet in me uirtus Christi . Post quam cognoui prodesse quod putabam nocere. ### English translation (Claude) "and he said to me: My grace is sufficient for you; for power is perfected in weakness." Hence we understand that even saints have sometimes unknowingly asked for things that could not be granted. At the same time we also learn that importunate petition merits at least an answer, if it does not merit the effect. "Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me." After I learned that what I thought harmful was beneficial. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 12:9: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the n of hinc and in- in inimpetrabilia; left out, the sense "could not be granted" kept. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.9 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:299; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-9). ## 2 Corinthians 12:10 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-12-10 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:299 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Weakness and persecution for Christ are true strength. ### Latin text Propter quod placeo mihi in infirmitatibus, in contumeliis[, in necessitatibus, in angustiis]. Non in honoribus. In necessitatibus. Non in otio. In angustiis. Non in diuitiis. In persecutionibus pro Christo . Non pro crimine : unde saluator docuit ut sola causa iustitiae patiamur, Petro similiter adtestante. Cum enim infirmor, tunc potens sum. Maxima potentia est infirmari pro Christo, et magnae diuitiae indigere. ### English translation (Claude) "Therefore I am content in weaknesses, in insults." Not in honors. "In necessities." Not in leisure. "In distresses." Not in riches. "In persecutions for Christ." Not for a crime: hence the Savior taught that we should suffer only for the sake of righteousness, and Peter testifies likewise. "For when I am weak, then I am strong." It is the greatest power to be weak for Christ, and great riches to be in need. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 12:10: quotation, high confidence - Matt 5:10: allusion, high confidence - 1 Pet 4:15: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets "in necessities, in distresses" in the first lemma (they follow as separate lemmas); left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.10 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:299; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-10). ## 2 Corinthians 12:11 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-12-11 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:299–300 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The Corinthians forced Paul to commend himself, though he equals the great apostles. ### Latin text Insipiens factus sum . Insipientis esse dicit aliquem se in laboribus iactare uel uirtutibus. Uos me coegistis : ego enim debui a uobis commendari: nam nihil minus fui ab hi[i]s qui supra modum [ualde] sunt apostoli. Sed hoc uos coegistis qui, cum aliis de me satis facere deberetis, quod nihil minus fuerim a magnis apostolis, iterum opus [uos] habetis, ut uobis denuo conmendemur. [Tam]etsi nihil sum , ### English translation (Claude) "I have become foolish." He says it is the part of a fool to boast of one's labors or powers. "You compelled me: for I ought to have been commended by you: for I was in nothing less than those who are apostles beyond measure." But you compelled this, you who, though you ought to have satisfied others about me, that I was in nothing less than the great apostles, again need us to be commended to you anew. "Even though I am nothing," ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 12:11: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets an i in hiis, ualde, uos, and Tam- in tametsi; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.11 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:299–300; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-11). ## 2 Corinthians 12:12 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-12-12 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:300 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul's apostleship was proved by patience and signs. ### Latin text sed signa apostolatus perfecta sunt inter uos in omni potentia, signis et prodigiis et uirtutibus. Ego quidem nihil sum ut homo, sed apostolatus sua in uobis signa monstrauit, hoc est, patientiam in moribus et prodigia in signis. ### English translation (Claude) "yet the signs of apostleship were accomplished among you in all power, in signs and wonders and powers." I indeed am nothing as a man, but the apostleship showed its signs among you, that is, patience in conduct and wonders in signs. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 12:12: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The lemma reads "in all power" (potentia), but the comment explains "patience" (patientia), the usual reading. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.12 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:300; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-12). ## 2 Corinthians 12:13 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-12-13 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:300 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Corinth lacked nothing but the burden of supporting Paul. ### Latin text Quid est enim quod minus habueritis prae ceteris ecclesiis? Quibus alii apostoli praedicarunt. Nisi quod ego ipse non grauaui uos ? donate mihi hanc iniuriam: ### English translation (Claude) "For what is it in which you had less than the other churches?" To which other apostles preached. "Except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong:" ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 12:13: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.13 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:300; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-13). ## 2 Corinthians 12:14 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-12-14 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:300 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul seeks the Corinthians' salvation, not their goods, as a parent provides for children. ### Latin text [ecce tertium hoc paratus sum uenire ad uos , et non uos grauabo ;] non enim quaero quae uestra sunt[, sed uos], Salutem uestram desidero, non munera. Nec [enim] debent filii parentibus thesaurizare , sed parentes filiis . Ego magis, si haberem, uobis dare deberem. ### English translation (Claude) ["Behold, this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not burden you;"] "for I do not seek what is yours." I desire your salvation, not gifts. "For children ought not to lay up for parents, but parents for children." Rather I, if I had anything, should give to you. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 12:14: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the first lemma (kept in brackets so the verse appears), "but you," and enim; the last two left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.14 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:300; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-14). ## 2 Corinthians 12:15 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-12-15 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:300–301 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Perfect love spends itself for others. ### Latin text Ego autem [uobis] libentissime inpendam et superimpendar ipse pro animabus uestris [abundantius] [licet plus] uos diligens minus diligor . Quod habeo, laborem meum impendo, et plus quam possum impendar: perfecta enim dilectio non solum totum quod habet gratis impendit, sed [etiam] ipsa libenter superimpenditur, si necesse est. ### English translation (Claude) "But I will most gladly spend and be spent myself for your souls, loving you, I am loved less." What I have, my labor, I spend, and I will be spent more than I am able: for perfect love not only spends freely all it has, but also gladly spends itself, if it is necessary. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 12:15: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets uobis, abundantius, "though more," and etiam; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.15 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:300–301; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-15). ## 2 Corinthians 12:16 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-12-16 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:301 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul defends his honesty and that of his envoys. ### Latin text Sed [ergo] esto: ego [autem] non grauaui uos, sed cum essem astutus, dolo uos cepi. numquid per aliquem illorum quos misi ad uos, circumueni uos? Per omnia se purgat, ipsorum semper conscientiam testem inuocans, simulque eis quo modo se ab illis possint cauere demonstrat. ### English translation (Claude) "But be it so: I did not burden you, but being crafty, I caught you by guile. Did I take advantage of you through any of those whom I sent to you?" He clears himself in every way, always calling their own conscience as witness, and at the same time shows them how they can guard themselves against those men. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 12:16: quotation, high confidence - 2 Cor 12:17: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The section covers 2 Cor 12:16–17. Souter brackets ergo and autem; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.16 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:301; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-16). ## 2 Corinthians 12:18 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-12-18 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:301 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Titus and Paul acted in one honest spirit. ### Latin text Rogaui Titum, et misi cum illo fratrem. numquid uos Titus circumuenit? Numquid [aliquid] uobis ad me Abstulit [ad me] perferendum? Non[ne] eodem spiritu ambulauimus ? non[ne] [in] hisdem uestigiis ? Nonne uno spiritu omnia gerimus? ### English translation (Claude) "I asked Titus, and sent the brother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you?" Did he take anything from you to bring to me? "Did we not walk in the same spirit? Not in the same steps?" Do we not do everything in one spirit? ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 12:18: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets aliquid (kept for the sense), "to me," -ne twice, and in; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.18 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:301; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-18). ## 2 Corinthians 12:19 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-12-19 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:301 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul writes to prevent the need for sharp punishment. ### Latin text [Iterum] putatis quod excusemus nos aput uos. Non, sicut superius dixi, haec dicimus, ut uobis placeamus, sed ne nobis, cum uenerimus, necesse sit acrius uindicare. Coram deo in Christo loquimur. Quern fallere inpossibile est. Omnia autem , carissimi , propter uestram aedificationem : ### English translation (Claude) "Do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you?" No; as I said above, we say these things not to please you, but lest, when we come, it be necessary for us to punish more sharply. "We speak before God in Christ." Whom it is impossible to deceive. "But all things, beloved, are for your edification:" ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 12:19: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets Iterum; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.19 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:301; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-19). ## 2 Corinthians 12:20 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-12-20 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:301–302 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul threatens to punish strife and envy, sins that Pelagius's own age ignores. ### Latin text timeo autem ne forte, cum uenero, non quales uolo inueniam uos, et ego inueniar a uobis qualem non uultis. Si uos non inuenero iustos, [et] ego a uobis seuerus inueniar. blandimentis minae iunguntur. Ne forte sint inter uos contentiones, aemulationes, animositates , dissensiones, detractiones, susurrationes, [ inflationes ,] seditiones. Si propter haec se dicebat seuerissime uindicare, quid faceret, si nostris temporibus adueniret, quibus ad conparationem aliorum criminum ista nec putantur esse peccata? ### English translation (Claude) "For I fear lest perhaps, when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and I may be found by you such as you do not wish." If I do not find you righteous, I will be found severe by you. Threats are joined to coaxing. "Lest perhaps there be among you strifes, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, seditions." If he said he would punish these things most severely, what would he do if he came in our times, in which, compared with other crimes, these are not even thought to be sins? ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 12:20: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets et and inflationes ("swellings"); left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.20 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:301–302; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-20). ## 2 Corinthians 12:21 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-12-21 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:302 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul mourns the impenitent, which refutes the Novatians' denial of penance. ### Latin text Ne iterum, cum uenero, humiliet me deus apud uos e[t] lugeam mukos ex his qui ante peccauerunt et non egerunt poenitentiam. Contra Nouatianos paenitentiae neg[u]atores: si[c] enim luget paenitentiam non agentes, utique de agentibus gaudet. Super quae gesserunt [et] fornicationem [et] inpudicitiam [quam gesserunt ]. Inpudicitia grauior est fornicatione, quasi monstruosa turpitudo, sicut [et] ille fecit, qui uxorem patris accepit. ### English translation (Claude) "Lest again, when I come, God humble me among you, and I mourn many of those who sinned before and did not do penance." Against the Novatians, deniers of penance: for if he mourns those who do not do penance, he surely rejoices over those who do. "For the sexual immorality and impurity which they committed." Impurity is graver than sexual immorality, as it were a monstrous shamefulness, such as he committed who took his father's wife. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 12:21: quotation, high confidence - 1 Cor 5:1: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - "Penance" renders paenitentia here, of the church's discipline. Souter brackets the t of et, letters of negatores and sic, et twice, and "which they committed"; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 12.21 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:302; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/12-21). ## 2 Corinthians 13:1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-13-1 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:302 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul cites the law's rule of witnesses, against the Manichaeans. ### Latin text [Ecce] tertio hoc uenio ad uos: in ore duorum testium uel trium stabit omne uerbum . Secundum legem: contra Manichaeos. ### English translation (Claude) "This third time I am coming to you: by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word will stand." According to the law: against the Manichaeans. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 13:1: quotation, high confidence - Deut 19:15: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets Ecce; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 13.1 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:302; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/13-1). ## 2 Corinthians 13:2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-13-2 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:302 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul will not spare those who sin after earlier warnings. ### Latin text Praedixi [enim] et praedico , ut praesens secundo, et [nunc] absens his qui ante peccauerunt et ceteris omnibus, quoniam si uenero iterum non parcam. Qui post documenta priorum peccauerint, nec ipsis parcam, quia antecedentium ruina sequentes debet face[re] cautiores. ### English translation (Claude) "I said before and I say beforehand, as when present the second time, and absent, to those who sinned before and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare." Those who sinned after the lessons of the earlier ones I will not spare either, because the ruin of those who went before ought to make those who follow more careful. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 13:2: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets enim, nunc, and -re in facere; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 13.2 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:302; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/13-2). ## 2 Corinthians 13:3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-13-3 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:302–303 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Christ speaks and acts powerfully through Paul. ### Latin text An experimentum eius quaeritis qui in me loquitur , Christi? An in me Christum temptatis, utrum in uobis ualeat uindicare? Qui in uo[bi]s non infirmatur, sed potens est in uobis. Quanto magis in nobis capacioribus [sui] potest dici, quem non infirmum, sed potentem esse nec ipsi nescitis! ### English translation (Claude) "Do you seek proof of Christ who speaks in me?" Do you test Christ in me, whether he can punish among you? "Who is not weak toward you, but is mighty among you." How much more can it be said in us, who are more capable, that he is not weak but mighty, as you yourselves are not unaware! ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 13:3: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets -bi- in uobis and sui; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 13.3 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:302–303; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/13-3). ## 2 Corinthians 13:4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-13-4 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:303 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Christ crucified in weakness lives by God's power, and his power is in the faithful. ### Latin text Nam [et] si crucifixus est ex infirmitate [nostra], sed uiuit ex uirtute dei . Quod cruci fixus est nostrae est infirmitatis, quod uiuit suae uirtutis. Etenim nos infirmi sumus in illo, sed uiuimus in ipso ex uirtute dei in uobis . Siue: Si nos quasi infirmos prouocaueritis, inuenietis nos uiuere cum Christo in uirtute dei, cum in uos uindicare coeperimus. sed et nos in praesenti quidem infirmamur, sed in futuro cum illo, non in nostra, sed dei uirtute uiuemus. Uosmet ipsos temptate, si estis in fide; ipsi uos probate. Si in fide estis, ex uobis nos cognoscite, date sententiam in peccantem, et uidete si non statim cum uestro uerbo uindicta procedit. Aut non cognoscitis uos [ipsos], qu[on]ia[m] Christus Iesus in uobis est? nisi forte reprobi estis. Aut nescitis quia Christus in uobis est dei uirtus, si tamen uos minime reprobauit. ### English translation (Claude) "For although he was crucified out of weakness, yet he lives by the power of God." That he was crucified belongs to our weakness; that he lives, to his power. "For we too are weak in him, but we live with him by the power of God toward you." Or: if you provoke us as weak, you will find us living with Christ in the power of God when we begin to punish among you. But we too are weak in the present; in the future, however, we will live with him, not by our own power but by God's. "Test yourselves, whether you are in the faith; prove yourselves." If you are in the faith, know us from yourselves: pass sentence on a sinner, and see whether punishment does not follow at once upon your word. "Or do you not know yourselves, that Christ Jesus is in you? Unless perhaps you are reprobate." Or do you not know that Christ, the power of God, is in you, provided he has not rejected you? ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 13:4: quotation, high confidence - 2 Cor 13:5: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The section covers 2 Cor 13:4–5. Souter brackets et, nostra ("our" weakness), ipsos, and letters of quoniam; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 13.4 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:303; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/13-4). ## 2 Corinthians 13:6 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-13-6 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:303 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul trusts the Corinthians will see he is approved. ### Latin text Spero autem quod cognoscetis quia nos non sumus reprobi. Spero uos sensuros quo modo uos uideo conuersari. ### English translation (Claude) "But I hope that you will know that we are not reprobate." I hope you will perceive it from the way I see you living. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 13:6: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 13.6 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:303; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/13-6). ## 2 Corinthians 13:7 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-13-7 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:303–304 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul prefers to seem powerless rather than have to punish. ### Latin text Oramus autem deum ut nihil mali faciatis, non ut nos probati [ap]pareamus, sed ut uos quod bonum est faciatis , nos autem ut reprobi simus. Si enim mali aliquid feceritis, nos uindicando [ap]parebimus probati, sed malumus nos reprobos uideri, tantum ut uos quod bonum est faciatis. ### English translation (Claude) "But we pray God that you do nothing evil, not that we may appear approved, but that you may do what is good, though we be as reprobate." For if you did anything evil, we would appear approved by punishing it; but we prefer to seem reprobate, provided that you do what is good. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 13:7: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets ap- in appareamus and apparebimus; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 13.7 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:303–304; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/13-7). ## 2 Corinthians 13:8 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-13-8 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:304 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Apostolic judgment harms only the guilty. ### Latin text Non enim possumus aduersus ueritatem aliquid, sed pro ueritate. Innocenti enim nostra sententia obesse non poterit nisi ei qui pro certo peccauerit. ### English translation (Claude) "For we can do nothing against the truth, but only for the truth." Our sentence cannot harm the innocent, but only him who has certainly sinned. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 13:8: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 13.8 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:304; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/13-8). ## 2 Corinthians 13:9 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-13-9 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:304 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul is glad not to need to use punitive power, as Peter did with Ananias. ### Latin text Gaudemus autem cum nos infirmamur. Gaudemus si non sit necesse ut nostra uirtus appareat, sicut Petri apparuit in Sa[p]phyra et Anania. Uos autem fortes estis: hoc [enim] et oramus , uestram consummationem. [Ut uos] perfecti sitis atque potentes. ### English translation (Claude) "For we rejoice when we are weak." We rejoice if it is not necessary for our power to appear, as Peter's appeared in Sapphira and Ananias. "But you are strong: this too we pray for, your perfection." That you may be perfect and strong. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 13:9: quotation, high confidence - Acts 5:5: allusion, high confidence - Acts 5:10: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the p of Sapphyra, enim, and "That you"; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 13.9 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:304; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/13-9). ## 2 Corinthians 13:10 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-13-10 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:304–305 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Paul writes to avoid harshness and calls the whole church to be perfect and at peace. ### Latin text Ideo hoc absens scribo , ut non praesens durius agam. Si non correxeritis, durius adhuc acturus sum quam scribendo denuntio. Secundum potestatem quam dedit dominus nobis in aedificationem. Ut et uos de cetero emendetis et alii peccare formident. Et non in destructionem. Ad quam sibi pseudo-apostoli potestatem usurpant. De cetero, fratres , [gaudete et] perfecti estote , [et] consolamini . Notandum quod omni ecclesiae scribens dicit eos omnes debere esse perfectos, et quod laicos iubet se inuicem exhortari. Id ipsum sapite, pacem habete , et deus pacis et dilectionis erit in uobis. Alioquin auctor dissensionis et odii e contrario erit uobiscum, et uos cum illo permanebitis in aetemum, si ille hic uobiscum permanserit semper. ### English translation (Claude) "Therefore I write these things while absent, so that when present I may not act more harshly." If you do not correct yourselves, I will act still more harshly than I announce in writing. "According to the power which the Lord gave us for edification." So that you may amend for the future and others may be afraid to sin. "And not for destruction." For which the false apostles usurp power for themselves. "Finally, brothers, be perfect, be comforted." It is to be noted that, writing to the whole church, he says that they all ought to be perfect, and he commands lay people to exhort one another. "Be of the same mind, have peace, and the God of peace and love will be with you." Otherwise the author of dissension and hatred will be with you instead, and you will remain with him forever, if he remains with you here always. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 13:10: quotation, high confidence - 2 Cor 13:11: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The section covers 2 Cor 13:10–11. Pelagius notes that all the faithful, not only some, are told to be perfect. Souter brackets "rejoice and" and et; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 13.10 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:304–305; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/13-10). ## 2 Corinthians 13:12 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-13-12 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:305 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The saints, not the great, send greetings. ### Latin text [Salutate inuicem in o[s]culo sancto:] salutant uos sancti omnes . Non honorati aut diuites. ### English translation (Claude) "All the saints greet you." Not the honored or the rich. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 13:12: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the lemma "Greet one another with a holy kiss"; left out. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 13.12 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:305; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/13-12). ## 2 Corinthians 13:13 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/11-1/#p-13-13 - Source: Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:305 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The blessing names the Son first, against the Arian argument from order. ### Latin text Gratia domini nostri Iesu Christi et caritas dei et communicatio sancti spiritus. Contra Arrianos, qui [i]deo patrem maiorem esse contendunt, quia plerumque pri[m]us nominat[ur] in ordine. Cum omnibus uobis . [amen.] Sicut est in aliquantis. [Siue: Quo[d] omnes in his bonis uelit esse perfectos]. AD CORINTHIOS SECVNDA EXPLICIT ### English translation (Claude) "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit." Against the Arians, who contend that the Father is greater because he is usually named first in order. "Be with you all." As it is with some. End of the Second to the Corinthians. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 13:13: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Souter brackets the i of ideo, letters of primus nominatur, amen, and "Or: that he wishes all to be perfect in these goods"; left out. The last words are the manuscript's closing title. ### Citation (SBL) Pelagius, Comm. 2 Cor. 13.13 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:305; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-2-corinthios/13-13).