Therefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
And this he says, not as extolling Timothy, but honoring them, that he sent them the fellow-worker, and minister of the Gospel. As if he had said, Having withdrawn him from his labors we have sent to you the minister of God, and our fellow-laborer in the Gospel of Christ.
