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1 Thessalonians 4:4 (WEB)
that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor,

Fathers and councils · 9

Theodoret of Cyrus, Dialogues (Eranistes) §2
“But what we say is that of a virgin’s womb the Christ took pure flesh, holy and without spot, and made impervious to all sin, and restored the body that was His own.”” — editor's note: σκεῦος. cf. 2 Cor. iv. 7. 1 Thess. iv. 4. 1 Peter iii. 7. Cicero. Tusc. 1. 22 calls the body “vas animi.”
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Jerome, Letters Letter 128
“No, let him “possess his vessel in sanctification and honour,” let him drink of his own wells not out of the dissolute cisterns of the harlots which cannot hold within them the pure waters of chastity.” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 4.
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Basil the Great, Letters Letter 160
“If any one wants to contract a lawful marriage, the whole world is open to him: if he is only impelled by lust, let him be the more restricted, “that he may know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour, not in the lust of concupiscence.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 4. So A.V., apparently taking σκεῦος for body with Chrys., Theodoret, and others. The Greek is, most simply, not “possess,” but get, and is in…
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Tertullian, On Modesty Chapter 17
““For our consolation (originated) not of seduction, nor of impurity:” and, “This is the will of God, your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; that each one know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour, not in the lust of concupiscence, as (do) the nations which are ignorant of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 3–5.
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Tertullian, On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 16
“For although it is called “a vessel” by the apostle, such as he enjoins to be treated “with honour,” it is yet designated by the same apostle as “the outward man,”—that clay, of course, which at the first was inscribed with the title of a man, not of a cup or a sword, or any paltry vessel.” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 4.
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Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion V.14Book V
“That we should “abstain from fornication,” not from marriage; that every one “should know how to possess his vessel in honour.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 3, 4.
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Augustine of Hippo, Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 1
“…is she, in proportion to her greater chastity; and the husband for his part loveth his wife truly, as it is written, “In honour and sanctification,” as a coheir of grace: as “Christ,” saith the Apostle, “loved the Church.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 4.
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Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XIV.16Book XIV
“…but knowing, as the apostle says, “how to possess his vessel in santification and honor, not in the disease of desire, as the Gentiles who know not God,” would not prefer, if this were possi ble, to beget children without this lust, so that in this function of begetting offspring the members created for this…” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 4.
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Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.11Book IV
“Wherefore he that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given His Holy Spirit to you.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 3–8.
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