Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

1 Thessalonians 3:7

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 2, page 558, footnote 10 (Image)

Augustine: The City of God, Christian Doctrine

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CCEL Footnote 1852 (In-Text, Margin)

8. And not only these, but also those ambiguities that do not relate either to punctuation or pronunciation, are to be examined in the same way. For example, that one in the Epistle to the Thessalonians: Propterea consolati sumus fratres in vobis.[1 Thessalonians 3:7] Now it is doubtful whether fratres [brethren] is in the vocative or accusative case, and it is not contrary to faith to take it either way. But in the Greek language the two cases are not the same in form; and accordingly, when we look into the original, the case is shown to be vocative. Now if the translator had chosen to say, propterea consolationem ...

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