1 Thessalonians 2:19 (WEB)
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
Fathers and councils · 5
Athanasius of Alexandria
“But, as it was ‘woe to me’ if he did not preach, so, in teaching and preaching the gospel, he had his converts as his joy and crown.” — editor's note: 1 Thes. ii. 19.
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John Chrysostom
“And the words of him who gives these admonitions, are at one time, “What is my hope or joy? are not even ye?”at another, “Now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord;”at another, “Out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you;”and, “Who is weak, and I am not weak?” — editor's note: 1 Thes. ii. 19.
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Tertullian
“Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord God, Jesus Christ, at His coming?”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. ii. 19. Some mss. omit “God.”
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“For you are my defence, my witnesses, and my crown of rejoicing, if I also may venture to boast myself a little in the Apostle’s language.” — editor's note: 1 Thess. ii. 19.
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Leo the Great
“…salvation, may “my soul magnify the Lord,” and in the retribution of the judgment to come may the account of my priesthood so be rendered to the just Judge that through your good deeds you may be my joy and my crown, who by your good will have given an earnest testimony to me in this present life.” — editor's note: The words of S. Paul to the Thessalonians (1 Thess. ii. 19) are clearly in his mind.
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Cross-references · 1
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