Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

2 Thessalonians 1:4

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 646, footnote 13 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Anti-Marcion. (HTML)

Scorpiace. (HTML)

Chapter XIII. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 8307 (In-Text, Margin)

... into a plough, being first a ravening wolf of Benjamin, then himself supplying food as did Jacob, —how he, (I say,) speaks in favour of martyrdoms, now to be chosen by himself also, when, rejoicing over the Thessalonians, he says, “So that we glory in you in the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations, in which ye endure a manifestation of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be accounted worthy of His kingdom, for which ye also suffer!”[2 Thessalonians 1:4] As also in his Epistle to the Romans: “And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also, being sure that tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience, and experience hope; and hope maketh not ashamed.” And again: “And if children, then ...