1 THESSALONIANS 4:9 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.”
Now concerning love of the brothers: you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another — the Thessalonians are already instructed by God ('taught by God,' theodidaktoi); Paul's exhortation presupposes their internalized knowledge. The 'love of the brothers' (philadelphia) is the practical expression of faith.
Church Fathers on 1 Thessalonians 4:9
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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