Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Never was anything equal to the yearnings of the Apostle, never anything like the sympathy and the affectionateness of the blessed Paul, who made his every prayer in behalf of whole cities and peoples, and writes the same to all, I thank my God for you, making mention of you in my prayers. Think how many he had in his mind, whom it were a labor so much as to remember; how many he made mention of in his prayers, giving thanks to God for them all as though he himself had received the greatest blessing.
Wherefore, he says, i.e., because of what is to come, because of the good things that are laid up in store for them who rightly believe and live. And it is meet then to give thanks to God both for all the things which mankind have received at His hands, both heretofore and hereafter; and meet to give Him thanks also for the faith of them that believe.
Having heard, says he, of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and which you show toward all the saints.
He on all occasions knits together and combines faith and love, a glorious pair; nor does he mention the saints of that country only, but all.
