“With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;”
Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love — the virtues pauline: tapeinos ('humility,' lowliness of mind), praytēs ('gentleness,' meekness), makrothumia ('patience,' long-suffering), anechō ('bearing with,' forbearing) in agapē ('love'), the dispositions of Christian community.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 4:2
It is the virtue of teachers to aim not at praise, nor at esteem from those under their authority, but at their salvation, and to do every thing with this object; since the man who should make the other end his aim, would not be a teacher but a tyrant. Surely it is not for this that God set you over them, that you should enjoy greater court and service, but that your own interests should be disregarded, and every one of theirs built up. This is a teacher's duty: such an one…
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