2 THESSALONIANS 3:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.”
Do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother — the discipline is redemptive, not retaliatory. The disobedient is still a 'brother' (adelphos); admonishment (noutheteo, to counsel) is the loving response. The goal is restoration, not condemnation.
Church Fathers on 2 Thessalonians 3:15
By this he shows that he has assigned a heavy punishment against him, in depriving him of freedom of conversation. For if to be a receiver even with many others is worthy of disgrace, when they even reprove while they offer it, and withdraw themselves, how great is the reproach, quite sufficient to sting the soul. For if only giving rather tardily, and with murmuring, they inflame the receivers — for tell me not of impudent beggars, but of the faithful — if they were to…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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