By which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Amazing! So then he wrote not the whole, nor so much as he should have written. But here the nature of the subject prevented it. Elsewhere, as in the case of the Hebrews Hebrews 5:11 and the Corinthians, 1 Corinthians 3:2 the incapacity of the hearers. Whereby, when you read, you can perceive, says he, my understanding in the mystery of Christ, i.e., how I knew, how I understood either such things as God has spoken, or else, that Christ sits at the right hand of God; and then too the dignity, in that God has not dealt so with any nation. Psalm 147:20 And then to explain what nation this is with whom God has thus dealt, he adds,