And you became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit:
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Ambrosiaster
AD 400
Those who, eager to believe, suffer insults and injuries from their fellows, are precisely those who may be called imitators of the apostles and of the Lord himself. He suffered the same things from the Jews, as did the apostles who endured persecution as they pursued their faith in God. .
