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Volume 8 of The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide provides verse-by-verse commentary on the Second Epistle to the Corinthians and the Epistle to the Galatians. Lapide provides a synopsis for each chapter, and regularly cites Church Fathers, such as S. Jerome, Ambrose, Augustine, Ecumemius, and more, in his in-depth commentaries on these Pauline Epistles.

has according to its power; otherwise it would be merely a wish, not an earnest and ready will. It is not expected to give what it has not, as S. Paul says. “Let him who has,” says Theophylact, “carry out his work; he who has not has already carried out his work by willing it.” S. Leo (Serm. 4 de Jej. Dec. Mensis) says: “Unequal expenditure may give equal merits; for the intention may be the same, though the incomes be widely different;” and Anselm says: “Here all, whether poor or rich, give equally,
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