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PARALLEL HISTORY BIBLE - 2 Corinthians 4:4


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LXX- Greek Septuagint - 2 Corinthians 4:4

εν 1722 οις 3739 ο 3588 θεος 2316 του 3588 αιωνος 165 τουτου 5127 ετυφλωσεν 5186 5656 τα 3588 νοηματα 3540 των 3588 απιστων 571 εις 1519 το 3588 μη 3361 αυγασαι 826 5658 αυτοις 846 τον 3588 φωτισμον 5462 του 3588 ευαγγελιου 2098 της 3588 δοξης 1391 του 3588 χριστου 5547 ος 3739 εστιν 2076 5748 εικων 1504 του 3588 θεου 2316

Douay Rheims Bible

In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them.

King James Bible - 2 Corinthians 4:4

In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

World English Bible

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

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Anf-01 ix.iv.viii Pg 0, Anf-01 ix.iv.viii Pg 2, Anf-01 ix.vi.xxx Pg 4, Anf-01 ix.viii.xlvi Pg 3, Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xi Pg 31, Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xi Pg 49, Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xvii Pg 31, Anf-04 iii.viii.ix Pg 8, Anf-04 vi.v.v.iii Pg 86, Anf-06 vii.iii.xii Pg 12, Anf-06 vii.iv.iii Pg 2, Anf-07 iii.ii.ii.xiii Pg 9, Anf-07 iii.ii.ii.xv Pg 4, Anf-09 xvi.ii.iv.xiv Pg 7, Anf-09 xvi.ii.iv.xiv Pg 12, Npnf-104 iv.ix.xxiii Pg 4, Npnf-104 iv.ix.xxvi Pg 4, Npnf-110 iii.XXXVIII Pg 27, Npnf-112 v.viii Pg 19, Npnf-112 v.viii Pg 39, Npnf-114 vi.ii Pg 236, Npnf-114 vii.ii Pg 236, Npnf-207 ii.iii.ii Pg 70, Npnf-207 ii.x Pg 179, Npnf-207 ii.x Pg 187, Npnf-208 vii.viii Pg 16, Npnf-210 iv.iv.iii.vi Pg 8

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2Corinthians 4:4

Early Christian Commentary - (A.D. 100 - A.D. 325)

Anf-01 ix.iv.viii Pg 0


Anf-01 ix.iv.viii Pg 2
2 Cor. iv. 4.

and maintaining that there is indeed one god of this world, but another who is beyond all principality, and beginning, and power, we are not to blame if they, who give out that they do themselves know mysteries beyond God, know not how to read Paul. For if any one read the passage thus—according to Paul’s custom, as I show elsewhere, and by many examples, that he uses transposition of words—“In whom God,” then pointing it off, and making a slight interval, and at the same time read also the rest [of the sentence] in one [clause], “hath blinded the minds of them of this world that believe not,” he shall find out the true [sense]; that it is contained in the expression, “God hath blinded the minds of the unbelievers of this world.” And this is shown by means of the little interval [between the clause]. For Paul does not say, “the God of this world,” as if recognising any other beyond Him; but he confessed God as indeed God. And he says, “the unbelievers of this world,” because they shall not inherit the future age of incorruption. I shall show from Paul himself, how it is that God has blinded the minds of them that believe not, in the course of this work, that we may not just at present distract our mind from the matter in hand, [by wandering] at large.


Anf-01 ix.vi.xxx Pg 4
2 Cor. iv. 4.

And again, in that to the Romans: “And as they did not think fit to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things that are not convenient.”4211

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Anf-01 ix.viii.xlvi Pg 3
2 Cor. iv. 4.

that is, Satan, who was designated God to those who believe not.


Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xi Pg 31
2 Cor. iv. 4.

as if it described the Creator as the God of this world, in order that he may, by these words, imply that there is another God for the other world. We, however, say that the passage ought to be punctuated with a comma after God, to this effect: “In whom God hath blinded the eyes of the unbelievers of this world.”5708

5708 He would stop off the phrase τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου from ὁ Θεὸς, and remove it to the end of the sentence as a qualification of τῶν ἀπίστων. He adds another interpretation just afterwards, which, we need not say, is both more consistent with the sense of the passage and with the consensus of Christian writers of all ages, although “it is historically curious” (as Dean Alford has remarked) “that Irenæus [Hæres. iv. 48, Origen, Tertullian (v. 11, contra Marcion)], Chrysostom, Œcumenius, Theodoret, Theophylact, all repudiate, in their zeal against the Manichæans, the grammatical rendering, and take τῶν ἀπίστων τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου together” (Greek Testament, in loc.). [I have corrected Alford’s reference to Tertullian which he makes B. iv. 11.]

“In whom” means the Jewish unbelievers, from some of whom the gospel is still hidden under Moses’ veil. Now it is these whom God had threatened for “loving Him indeed with the lip, whilst their heart was far from Him,”5709

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Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xi Pg 49
2 Cor. iv. 4.

Since Christ, then, is the person of the Creator, who said, “Let there be light,” it follows that Christ and the apostles, and the gospel, and the veil, and Moses—nay, the whole of the dispensations—belong to the God who is the Creator of this world, according to the testimony of the clause (above adverted to), and certainly not to him who never said, “Let there be light.” I here pass over discussion about another epistle, which we hold to have been written to the Ephesians, but the heretics to the Laodiceans. In it he tells5726

5726 Ait.

them to remember, that at the time when they were Gentiles they were without Christ, aliens from (the commonwealth of) Israel, without intercourse, without the covenants and any hope of promise, nay, without God, even in his own world,5727

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Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xvii Pg 31
On this and another meaning given to the phrase in 2 Cor. iv. 4, see above, chap. xi.

For he has filled the whole world with the lying pretence of his own divinity. To be sure,5977

5977 Plane: an ironical particle here.

if he had not existed, we might then possibly have applied these descriptions to the Creator. But the apostle, too, had lived in Judaism; and when he parenthetically observed of the sins (of that period of his life), “in which also we all had our conversation in times past,”5978

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