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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"Whereunto I am appointed a preacher and an Apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles." Why does he so constantly repeat this, and call himself a teacher of the Gentiles? Because he wishes to persuade them that they also ought to draw close to the Gentiles. Be not therefore dismayed at my sufferings. The sinews of death are unstrung. It is not as a malefactor that I suffer, but because I am "a teacher of the Gentiles." At the same time he makes his discourse worthy of credit.
Theophylact of Ohrid
Why did the apostle now call himself a teacher of the Gentiles? To impress upon Timothy that he must proclaim the word of the Gospel to the Gentiles, and not lose heart, but imitate him, who was bound for the sake of the evangelical teaching.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Above, he urged Timothy to preach Christ earnestly; here he sets himself before him as an example: first, he gives the example; second, he urges him to follow it, at hold the form; third, he states why he must follow this example, at you know this. In regard to the first he does three things: first, he mentions his office; second, he narrates what he has suffered in performing that office, at for which cause I also suffer these things; third, the certainty of his hope, at for I know. …
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