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What the Fathers say

2 Samuel 16:11

Eastern Fathers

John Chrysostom

For if we suffer evil at the hands of men, we cut off no small part of our debt by bearing what is done to us nobly. We receive therefore no injury; for God reckons the ill-treatment towards our debt, not according to the principle of justice but of His loving-kindness; and because He succored not him that suffered evil. "Whence doth this appear?" saith one. …

Homilies On 2 Corinthians 23.7 ↗