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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
The young sailor at sea is inspired with great confidence, if the Master of the ship has been preserved in a shipwreck. For he will not consider that it is from his inexperience that he is exposed to the storm, but from the nature of things; and this has no little effect upon his mind. In war also the Captain, who sees his General wounded and recovered again, is much encouraged. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
What are you saying? You said that you are in bonds, that everyone has abandoned you, and, as if having said nothing terrible, you add: "therefore, be strong, my son"! Yes, for that very reason that I am in chains, you should be all the more courageous. For if I, your teacher, did not endure this, then perhaps you could be excused for losing heart, since due to your youth and inexperience you would be exposed to dangers. …
Oecumenius
You therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. Paul indicates great kindness by what is added, "my child." "If you are my child," he says, "imitate your father." For the teacher's rebuke is accustomed to add boldness to the student. Therefore, Paul says: "be strong." If anything of this kind happens to you, do not fall, but look to the reward. be strong in the grace. But be strengthened, Paul says, not only by my example, but also through the grace given through Christ. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Martyrdom requires strength of soul against the dangers of death; hence he says, you, therefore, my son, whom I have begotten in the Gospel, be strong in the grace. Do manfully, and let your heart be strengthened (Ps 30:25); which is not in you, namely, whose strength is weak, but in Christ Jesus: be strengthened in the Lord and in the might of his power (Eph 6:10). Or, in the grace which is in Christ Jesus, i.e., by God's gift freely given through Christ: grace and truth came by Jesus Christ (John 1:17).
Hippolytus of Rome
As it was your desire, my beloved brother Theophilus, to be thoroughly informed on those topics which I put summarily before you, I have thought it right to set these matters of inquiry clearly forth to your view, drawing largely from the Holy Scriptures themselves as from a holy fountain, in order that you may not only have the pleasure of hearing them on the testimony of men, but may also be able, by surveying them in the light of (divine) authority, to glorify God in all. …
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