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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be unreprovable." Here he seems to court them, but the saying is free from all flattery; for he knows also how to press them home; as when he saith, "Now some are puffed up as though I would not come to you:" and again, "What will ye? …
Theophylact of Ohrid
By the word "will confirm" he shows that they are wavering, and by the word "blameless" he expresses that now they are subject to accusation. In this epistle more frequently than in others he mentions the Lord Jesus Christ, in order to remind the Corinthians by Whom they were saved and Whose name they bear. For Christians are called so from Christ, and not from the name of any man.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Secondly, he shows that this expectation is not vain because of the help of God's grace: hence he adds: Who, i.e., Christ, Who gave them the hope of such a manifestation, will sustain you in the grace received: "After you have suffered a little while, He will restore, establish and strengthen you" (1 Pt 5:10) to the end of your life: "He who endures to the end will be saved" (Matt 10:22). Not that you will be without sin, because "If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us" (1 Jn. …
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