1 THESSALONIANS 3:13 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.”
So that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints — the ultimate telos (goal) is eschatological: standing 'blameless in holiness' (amomos en hagiōsynē) before the divine throne at the parousia. The 'coming with all his saints' (meta pantōn tōn hagiōn autou) suggests a vast retinue; Christ's return is not solitary but communal. Sanctification is oriented toward the final standing before God.
Church Fathers on 1 Thessalonians 3:13
He shows that love produces advantage to themselves, not to those who are loved. I wish, he says, that this love may abound, that there may be no blemish. He does not say to establish you, but your hearts. “For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts.” Matthew 15:19 For it is possible, without doing anything, to be a bad man; as for example, to have envy, unbelief, deceit, to rejoice at evils, not to be loving, to hold perverted doctrines, all these things are of the heart;…
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