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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"And labor;" now against the false apostles who endure neither toil nor peril, while they themselves receive the fruits. "But not so are we," saith he: "but together with our perils from without, we also strain ourselves to the utmost with perpetual labor. And what is still more, no one can say that we fret at these things, for the contrary is our requital to them that so deal with us: this, I say, is the main point, not our suffering evil, for that is common to all, but our suffering without despondency or vexation. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
And, – what is most important of all, he says, – we do not even consider ourselves unfortunate amid such calamities. And how is this evident? From the fact that we repay those who afflict us with the opposite. For those who revile us, we bless, and those who inflict upon us even harsher injuries (this is the meaning of "defaming," that is, the most severe injury) we "entreat" (παρακαλοΰμεν), that is, in return for defamation we repay them with words gentle and kind (this is the meaning of "entreating," that is, speech that is …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
The third is help from servants. But they experienced the opposite: and we labor, working with our own hands, both because they often received nothing from anyone to support them and because they earned their living by the work of their own hands either to avoid being a burden to the faithful or to rebuff false apostles who preached for money, and also because they wanted to give the idle an example of work, as he says in 2 Th (3:9); hence Paul says: "These hands ministered to my necessities, and to those who were with me" (Ac …
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