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13 Mar 2019

Mourning And Rejoicing



Ὡς λυπούμενοι, ἀεὶ δὲ χαίροντες

Ἔτι ὑπονοούμενοι λυπεῐσθαι, καὶ πτωχοὶ καὶ μηδὲν ἔχοντες, δι' ἥν κατορθοῦμεν ἀκρημοσύνην χαίρομεν, πλουτοῦντες ἔργοις ἀγαθοῖς, καὶ παντὶ λόγῳ, καὶ πάσῃ γνώσει· ὡς καὶ ἄλλους πλουτίζειν κατὰ τὸν πλοῦτον τὸν ὀξὺ βλέποντα. Ὁ γὰρ τοῦτον ἔχων, πάντων ἐγκρατής ἐστιν, κατέχων αὐτά.


Δυδύμος του Ἀλεξανδρέως, Εἰς Την Δευτεραν Ἐπιστολήν Προς Κορινθίους, Ἐκλογή,  Κεφ Ϛ'



Migne PG 39 1709
'As those mourning, but always rejoicing.' 1

That is, being suspected of grieving because of poverty and having nothing, yet on account of which we profit rejoicing in poverty, because with good works we are made rich, and with every word and thought, and thus others we enrich with this type of wealth, which acutely the Apostle perceives, for he who has this, having mastery over all things, abstains from everything else.


Didymus the Blind, Fragment from a Commentary On The Second Epistle to the  Corinthians, Chap 6

1 2 Cor 6. 10

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