1 THESSALONIANS 4:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;”
And indeed you do love all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to do so more and more — their love is exemplary but perfectible; the progression ('more and more,' mallon) is the trajectory of sanctity. They have begun well; Paul invites them deeper into the love that knows no boundaries.
Church Fathers on 1 Thessalonians 4:10
Why then having discoursed with them earnestly concerning chastity, and being about to discourse about the duty of working, and about the not sorrowing for the departed, does he introduce that which was the principal of all good things, love, as if he were passing it over, saying, “We have no need to write to you”? This also is from his great wisdom, and belongs to spiritual instruction. For here he shows two things. First, that the thing is so necessary, as not to require…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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