As also you have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as you also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.
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Ambrosiaster
AD 400
Paul asserts that his boasting over his obedient children is noticed and that this will be to their advantage on the day of judgment. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.
We are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours. We are the object of your rejoicing as your teachers; ye, as good disciples, are the object of our rejoicing; and this rejoicing will chiefly be seen in the day when the Lord will come to judge all men.
As also ye did acknowledge us in part.
For your knowledge of us, he says, is not from hearsay but from actual experience. The words in part he added from humility. For this is his wont, when necessity constrains him to say any highsounding thing, (for he never does so otherwise,) as desiring quickly to repress again the elation arising from what he had said.
And I hope you will acknowledge even to the end.
2. Do you see again how from the past he draws pledges for the future; and not from the past only, but also from the power of God? For he affirmed not absolutely, but cast the whole upon God and his hope in Him.
That we are your glorying, even as you also are our's, in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Here he cuts at the root of the envy that his speech might occasion, by making them sharers and partners in the glory of his good works. 'For these stick not with us, but pass over unto you also, and again from you to us.' For seeing he had extolled himself, and produce...
