2 THESSALONIANS 2:17 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.”
Comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word — the twin petitions are for cardiac comfort (parakaleo, to console) and eschatological steadfastness (stērizo). Both inner stability and external good work are the fruit of divine consolation.
Church Fathers on 2 Thessalonians 2:17
Again a prayer after an admonition. For this is truly to benefit. “Which loved us,” he says, “and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace.” Where now are those who lessen the Son, because He is named in the grace of the Laver after the Father? For, lo, here it is the contrary. “Which loved us,” he says, “and gave us eternal comfort.” Of what sort then is this? Even the hope of things future. Do you see how by the method of prayer he stirs up their mind, giving…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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