1 THESSALONIANS 2:3 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:”
For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity or any attempt to deceive — Paul guards against the most serious charges against wandering sophists and false teachers of his era. His motives are pure (akatharsia is foreign to him), his doctrine uncorrupted (apatē is not in his heart). The appeal (paraklēsis) comes not from human cleverness but from the mercy that has gripped him.
Church Fathers on 1 Thessalonians 2:3
Do you see that, as I said, from their perseverance he makes a proof that the Preaching is divine? For, if it were not so, if it were a deceit, we should not have endured so many dangers, which allowed us not even to take breath. You were in tribulation, we were in tribulation. What then was it? Unless somewhat of things future had excited us, unless we had been persuaded that there is a good hope, we should not have been filled with the more alacrity by suffering. For who…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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