Now to him who is able to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Here Paul prays for them on the assumption that they are not yet firmly fixed but are still wavering. In order to back up what he says, he bases it all on “the preaching of Jesus Christ,” by which he means the things that Jesus himself preached. For if Christ preached it, the teaching is not Paul’s, but his…. Furthermore, to be let in on the secret, especially on one which had been kept for such a long time, is a sign of the greatest intimacy and friendliness.