1 THESSALONIANS 2:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.”
Who calls you into his own kingdom and glory — God's kingdom-call is not hypothetical but active, present, drawing the community into the eschatological future. The 'glory' (doxa) that characterizes God's kingdom is his transformative presence; those called enter into participation in it. The calling (kaleo) is the divine summons that constitutes the community.
Church Fathers on 1 Thessalonians 2:12
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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