1 THESSALONIANS 2:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,”
For you know how, like a father with his children, we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God — the paternal image complements the maternal; apostolic care is tender yet demanding. The exhortation (parakaleo) is individualized ('each one'), not generic; it addresses the particular soul before God. Walking worthy (peripateo) is the lived consequence of divine calling.
Church Fathers on 1 Thessalonians 2:11
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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