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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.

on us as from a mirror, we become bright with the light of the faith and grace of Christ, and so we become like mirrors flashing out the light of heaven, and like suns illuminating others, as Chrysostom and Theophylact say. Nay, we become as gods, sharing in the Divine Nature, as S. Peter says. “God foreknew and predestinated us to be conformed to the image of His Son,” says S. Paul. He alludes to Moses, who, beholding God and conversing with Him, received the rays of light reflected from God, as
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