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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace whereby we serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear." Let us then do all for this, that we may attain that rest, that we may enjoy those good things. Yea, I pray and beseech you, let us be earnest for this. No one builds in a city which is going to fall down. Tell me, I pray you, if any one said that after a year, this city would fall, but such a city not at all, wouldest thou have built in that which was about to fall? …
Theophylact of Ohrid
Since, he says, we shall be deemed worthy of blessings that are unchangeable and unshakeable, and shall receive such a kingdom, already receiving here the pledge of it — spiritual blessings, "let us hold fast to grace," that is, let us not grieve and lose heart, but let us give thanks both to Him who has already granted such things and who is yet to grant more. "Which we shall serve God acceptably." "By which" (i.e., by grace we shall also serve) — with thanksgiving. …
Oecumenius
"Therefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken." If creation is unshakable, much more the kingdom of heaven, which you are about to receive as a reward for the sufferings here for Christ. Since the sufferings are the cause of the kingdom, let us give thanks to God for them. "by which we may serve." For which, with thanksgiving;for it is by giving thanks to God even for tribulations and temptations that one serves Him acceptably. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
722. – Then when he says, Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, he reaches the main conclusion. For after commending in many ways the grace and benefits conferred and to be conferred upon us by Christ, his main desire is to induce us to serve Him. He concludes that inasmuch as immovable things are promised in the New Testament, we should serve Christ Who promised them, in fear and reverence. And that is the principal conclusion. 723. …
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