1 THESSALONIANS 2:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:”
You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers — the Thessalonians are called to testify to what they have witnessed; their observation is the ground of Paul's vindication. The triadic ethical formula (hosios toward God, dikaios toward humanity, amomos toward the community) describes the apostle's irreprehensible life. Character is destiny in the apostolic office.
Church Fathers on 1 Thessalonians 2:10
The teacher ought to do nothing with a feeling of being burdened, that tends to the salvation of his disciples. For if the blessed Jacob was buffeted night and day in keeping his flocks, much more ought he, to whom the care of souls is entrusted, to endure all toils, though the work be laborious and mean, looking only to one thing, the salvation of his disciples, and the glory thence arising to God. See then, Paul, a man that was a Preacher, an Apostle of the world, and…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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