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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"And our hope for you is steadfast." That is, though ye should suffer ills innumerable, we are confident that ye will not turn round, either upon your own trials or upon our persecutions. For so far are we from suspecting you of being confounded on account of our sufferings that even when yourselves are in peril, we are then confident concerning you. Seest thou how great had been their advance since the former Epistle? …
Theophylact of Ohrid
That is, we are firmly confident in you that you will not fall away in temptations, and therefore all the more do not be troubled seeing that we suffer. Since he said above: we endure afflictions for you, then, lest what was said seem unbearable, he now says: we are also comforted for you, that is, our comfort becomes your consolation. For if we receive even a small encouragement, this too is sufficient for your comfort, because you become partakers of our joy. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
You obtain fruit from this patience because from it our hope for you is unshaken by the fact that you are made heirs of eternal life: "Suffering produces endurance, and endurance true hope" (Rom. 5:3-4): "Hope in God becomes firmer to the extent that one suffers more difficult things for his name. For as a result of the sufferings the saints endure for Christ, the hope of eternal life rises in them" (Gregory). …
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