1 THESSALONIANS 3:7 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:”
Because we are greatly comforted, brothers, in all our persecution and affliction by your faith — the comfort (paraklēsis) flows in reverse; Paul's own tribulation is alleviated by news of the Thessalonians' steadfastness. Their faith sustains the apostle in his own struggle; the community's perseverance becomes his strength. Mutual encouragement is the grammar of the body of Christ.
Church Fathers on 1 Thessalonians 3:7
A question lies before us today, which is much disputed, and which is gathered from many sources. But what is this question? “For this cause,” he says, “when I could no longer forbear, I sent Timothy that I might know your faith.” What do you say? He, who knew so many things, who heard unutterable words, who ascended even to the third heaven, does not he know, even when he is in Athens? And yet the distance is not great, nor has he been long parted from them. For he says,…
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