1 Thessalonians 2:9 (WEB)
For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
Fathers and councils · 8
Augustine of Hippo
“The Apostle spent more; for, though it was allowed unto all the Apostles to receive, as Christ’s soldiers, pay from Christ’s subjects, that Apostle, nevertheless, toiled with his own hands, and excused the subjects the maintenance owing to him.” — editor's note: 1 Thess. ii. 7, 9; 2 Thess. iii. 8, 9.
Read the whole comment“…acted contrary to this precept when he acquired a livelihood for himself by the labours of his own hands, because he would not be chargeable to any of them), but that He gave them a power in the exercise of which they should know such things to be their due.” — editor's note: 1 Thess. ii. 9.
Read the whole comment“And what he here saith, “In humbling myself that ye might be exalted:” this in the first to the same Corinthians, “I became to the weak as weak;” this to the Thessalonians, “I became small among you, as a nurse cherisheth her children.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. ii. 7–9
Read the whole comment“Though, truly, that he wrought at hours of both day and night himself hath not left untold.” — editor's note: 1 Thess. ii. 9; 2 Thess. iii. 8
Read the whole comment“And in what he often says of himself, that he wrought with his hands that he might not be burdensome; and in what is written of him, that he joined himself to Aquila on account of the similarity of their occupation, in order that they might work together at…” — editor's note: 1 Thess. ii. 9; 2 Thess. iii. 8.
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John Chrysostom
“For neither, because they fast and watch, do they think it meet to be idle by day; but their nights they spend in the holy hymns and in vigils, and their days in prayers, and at the same time in laboring with their own hands imitating the zeal of the apostle.” — editor's note: Acts xx. 34; 1 Thess. ii. 9.
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Jerome
“And, though he might have lived by the gospel, he laboured day and night with his own hands, that he might not be burdensome to the believers.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 12; 1 Thess. ii. 9; 2 Cor. xii. 14.
Read the whole comment“If apostles who had the right to live of the Gospel laboured with their own hands that they might be chargeable to no man, and bestowed relief upon others whose carnal things they had a claim to reap as having sown unto them spiritual things; why do you not provide a supply to meet your needs?” — editor's note: 1 Thess. ii. 9; 1 Cor. iv. 12.
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1 Thessalonians 2:9 and 2 Thessalonians 3:8 share the same wording (11 words).
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