Therefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also you do.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Do you see how everywhere Paul puts the health of the community into the hands of each individual? “Exhorting one another daily,” he says, “while it is called today.” Do not then cast all of the burden on your teachers, and do not cast everything on those who have authority over you. You are able to edify one another. He says this in writing to the Thessalonians, “Edify one another, just as you are doing.” And again, “Comfort one another with these words.” If you are willing, you will have more success with one another than we can have. For you have been with one another a longer time. You know more about one another’s affairs. You are not ignorant of one another’s failings. You have more freedom of speech and love and intimacy. These are helpful for teaching…. You have more ability than we do to reprove and exhort. Furthermore, because I am only one person, but you are many, you will be able to be teachers to one another.
