Ephesians 3:13 (WEB)
Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.
Fathers and councils · 2
Augustine of Hippo
“I have already mentioned that from hence the Apostle Paul had borrowed a text for the encouragement of the Martyrs: that they might not “faint in the tribulations” undergone by them for the name of Christ.” — editor's note: Testimonium posuisse. Rom. viii. 36. [Also Rom. v. 3; Eph. iii. 13.—C.]
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…so in ours His kindness; in their case perhaps to give them the grace of repentance, and in ours to test our love; whether we do not faint in our tribulations and conflicts for the true Religion, as was from of old the order of His Divine Economy, and of his unsearchable judgments, with which He orders wisely all…” — editor's note: Ephes. iii. 13.
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