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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
Arrange the words thus: longing to see you, that I may be filled with joy; then the middle words "remembering your tears." For even if I were by nature utterly unfriendly, your tears, having come to my memory, would still be sufficient to incline me toward you. Probably Timothy, when parting from Paul, wept more than a child taken from its nurse.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Again from desire; thus he says, desiring to see you for our mutual consolation: for I long to see you (Rom 1:11). Then when he says, being mindful of your tears, he shows the good that was in Timothy: first, he recalls his love for him; second, his faith in God, at calling to mind the faith. He says, therefore, being mindful of your tears, which Timothy shed, when he left Ephesus prepared for martyrdom. Or, of the tears which he shed during prayer. …
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