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2 Corinthians 12:9
We learn from this that even a wrong prayer will receive an answer, even if it does not get what it wants.

COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 12
2 Corinthians 12:14
Paul is telling the Corinthians that if he had more to give them, he would be bound to do so, as a loving parent.

COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 12
2 Corinthians 13:13
All the saints sent their greetings, not just the leaders.

COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 13
2 Corinthians 13:14
This is written against the Arians, who maintain that the Father is greater than the Son on the ground that he is usually mentioned first.

COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 13
2 Thessalonians 1:6
“Since indeed” suggests confirmation, not doubt. It is as if Paul had said that since the source of righteousness can judge what is righteous, just as God has promised rest for those who suffer for his name, so tribulation will come for those who make tribulation for the faithful.

Pelagius’s Commentary on the Second Letter to the Thessalonians
2 Timothy 1:3
Paul says, My whole origin steered me to the worship of God. I devastated the church of Christ not from malevolence but from zeal for the law.

PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND LETTER TO TIMOTHY
2 Timothy 1:9
God foreknew those who would be reborn in response to the offer of grace.

PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND LETTER TO TIMOTHY
2 Timothy 2:2
Either “with many persons present I gave you mandates such as you should teach,” or “what I said I have confirmed with many examples and testimonies from the prophets.”

PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND LETTER TO TIMOTHY
2 Timothy 2:14
Do not manipulate Scripture testimonies. This kind of argument does not edify but does damage to one’s hearers, who come to think that a certain sharpness and subtlety of mind is everything. Or: Don’t try to win with words but with deeds.

PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND LETTER TO TIMOTHY
2 Timothy 2:15
It is correct living that confirms the word and that interprets it rightly.

PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND LETTER TO TIMOTHY
2 Timothy 2:17
That kind of wound is called a suppurating sore, which begins in the female breasts and then grows quickly into the abdominal region. When it finally becomes a poison that permeates the heart, there is no remedy. In just such a way the discussions of heretics are to be avoided, lest through the ears they reach the mind with an irremediable wound.

PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND LETTER TO TIMOTHY
2 Timothy 2:18
The resurrection has happened, according to them, either in children or in Ezekiel’s reference to the revivified bones of the people of Israel in captivity.

PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND LETTER TO TIMOTHY
2 Timothy 2:20
The house described by Paul cannot be the church, which is pure, but must be the world with its mixture of wheat and tares.

PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND LETTER TO TIMOTHY
2 Timothy 4:2
Preaching is always appropriate, whether to those who hear willingly or not.

PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND LETTER TO TIMOTHY
Philemon 1:2
Archippus is a deacon of the church, as suggested in Colossians 4:17.

Pelagius’s Commentary on the Letter to Philemon
Philemon 1:14
It is to be noted that he wished no one to do anything good by necessity, lest that person lose the reward of freely choosing to do the right thing.

Pelagius’s Commentary on the Letter to Philemon
Romans 1:1
Do we wonder why he writes Paul, given that he was called Saul before? Doubtless he did this following the habit of the saints. When they advanced in virtue they were addressed with a different name, so that they might be new people even in name, e.g., Abraham, Sarah and Cephas. … Paul earned the office of an apostle by faithful and matchless service. He was set apart in Acts 13:2. Gospel … means “good news”, i.e., of Christ’s birth, suffering, resurrection and ascension into heaven.

PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS
Romans 1:2
Paul preaches no other Christ than the Christ whose gospel the prophets promised would go forth from Jerusalem. He declares that they are prophets of God and that the Scriptures which prophesied about Christ are holy. This entire passage contradicts the Manichaeans, for it says that the gospel was promised beforehand through God’s prophets and in the Holy Scriptures and that according to the flesh Christ came from the lineage of David, i.e., from the Virgin Mary, just as Isaiah had foretold.

PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS
Romans 1:3
Many are sons by grace, but Christ is a son by nature.… By adding “according to the flesh” Paul has countered both Photinus and Arius. For if it is true that Christ was made according to the flesh, he most certainly was not made according to the substance of the Word.

PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS
Romans 1:4
Christ was predestined as to the spirit of sanctification, so that because of his incorruptibility he might rise again before anyone else and open the way of resurrection for the children of God.… The nature of the resurrection (not of all who rise from the dead but of those who belong to Christ) is prefigured by Christ.

PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS