Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have to all the saints,
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus.
A little above he said, our Lord. He, says he, is Lord, not the servants. Of Jesus Christ. These names also are symbols of His benefit to us, for He, it means, shall save His people from their sins. Matthew 1:21]
Having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have toward all the saints.
Already he conciliates them. It was Epaphroditus who brought him this account. But he sends the Epistle by Tychicus, retaining Epaphroditus with himself. And of the love, he says, which you have toward all the saints, not toward this one and that: of course then toward us also.
