That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for you yourselves know that we are appointed unto this.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
What then does he say here? Because the temptations of the teachers trouble their disciples, and he had then fallen into many temptations, as also he himself says, that Satan hindered us, always saying this; both once, he says, and again I would have come to you, and was not able, which was a proof of great violence. And it was reasonable that this should trouble them, for they are not so much troubled at their own temptations, as at those of their teachers; as neither is the soldier so much troubled at his own trials, as when he sees his general wounded. To establish you, he says; not that they were at all deficient in faith, nor that they required to learn anything.
