This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
It is the duty of the teacher to instruct and restore the souls of his disciples. This occurs not only by counsel and teaching but by awakening fear and handing them over to God. For when the words spoken by human beings are taken as if from fellow servants and lack the power to reshape the soul, it then becomes necessary to hand our very words over to the Lord. This is what Paul does here. .
