“Seest thou how God permits trials, and by them stirs up and awakens the disciples, and makes them more energetic? Then let us not sink down under trials: for He Himself will "also make the way of escape, that we may be able to bear them." Nothing so makes friends, and rivets them so firmly, as affliction: nothing so f…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Homily on the Acts of the Apostles 42
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1Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;
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— 1 Thessalonians 3:1 —
2And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:
3That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.