1 Thessalonians 2:11
As you know in what manner, entreating and comforting you, (as a father doth his children,)
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- sicut scitis, qualiter unumquemque vestrum (sicut pater filios suos)
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- καθάπερ οἴδατε ὡς ἕνα ἕκαστον ὑμῶν ὡς πατὴρ τέκνα ἑαυτοῦ
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians, 1 Thessalonians 2:9-12
1 Thessalonians ii. 9-12 “For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the Gospel of God. Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and righteously and unblamably we behaved ourselves toward you that believe: as ye know how we dealt with each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging you, and testifying, to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into His own kingdom and glory.” The teacher ought to do nothing with a feeling of being burdened, that tends to the salvation of his disciples. …