“Servants of God teach without flattery, so that they might please him whose servants they are, unlike the false apostles, who sought only to please their hearers.”
Ambrosiaster, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
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4But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
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2(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
3Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
— 2 Corinthians 6:4 —
5In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
6By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,