Notes on The Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians (Author Bishop Richard Challoner (ed.))
2:16 The odour of death, etc: The preaching of the apostle, which by its fragrant odour, brought many to life, was to others, through their own fault, the occasion of death; by their wilfully opposing and resisting that divine call.
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