“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
Let us not become weary of doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. — Paul's exhortation against 'egkakaō' (lose heart, become weary) in virtue: the harvest of 'kalon' (good) will come 'en kairō idiō' (in its proper time), contingent on perseverance ('mē eklythō' — not fainting), establishing eschatological encouragement for ethical endurance.
Church Fathers on Galatians 6:9
“And let us not be weary in well doing.” And here he points out the difference between ambition of this kind, and in temporal affairs, by saying, “Be not deceived ; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap. For he that sows unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life.” As in the case of seeds, one who sows pulse cannot reap grain, for what is sown and what is reaped…
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