Interpretation of 1 Thessalonians preface–3.13
Greek text: PG 82.English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0).
Preface
0PG 82
Ἢ Θεσσαλονίκη πρωτεύει μὲν τῆς Μακεδονίας" ἐδέβατο δὲ προθύμως τὸ σωτέριόν κῆρυγμα. Ὁ δὲ θεῖος ᾿Απόστολος καὶ ἐνταῦθα χατέπηξε τὰ τῆς εὐσεβεῖας θεμέλια, ἀντιλεγόντων ρὲν ᾿ἰονδαίων καὶ ἥροἐχχλίνας ἐπιβουλὰς ὃ θεστεόδίος {{.81σς, ἀλὸ μὲν τῆς ϑεσσαλονίχης εἰς τὴν Βέροιαν ἦλθεν, ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς Βεροίας εἰς τὰς ᾿Αθήνας ἀπέπλευσε. Τῶν δὲ γε πεπιστευκότων διηνεκῶς περιφέρων τὴν μέριμναν, τὸν πρισμαχάριον Τιμόθεον ἀπὸ τῶν ᾿Αθηνῶν εἰς τὴν Θεσσαλονίκην ἐξέπεμψεν, ὥστε αὐτοὺς ἐρεῖσαι καὶ αρατῦναι, καὶ τῶν παρὰ τῶν ἐναντίων προσφερομένου ς μηχανημάτων δεῖξαι δυνατωτέρους. Οὗτος ἐπανελθὼν ἐπένεσε μὲν τὸ τῆς πίστεως ἄμαχον, ἔφη δὲ δεῖσθαι αὐτοὺς διδασκαλίας τινὸς; παραινέσεως περί τινων ζη τῇμάτων παρ᾽ αὑτοῖς κινουμένων. Γέγραφε τοίνυν “ἣν ἐπιστολὴν, πρῶτον μὲν αὑτῶν τὸ στεῤῥὺν τῆς πίστεως εὐφημῶν, ἔπειτα προσμένειν τῶν νεκρῶν τὴν ἀνάστατιν παραινῶν, τῆς δὲ τοῦ Κυρίου παρου» σία: μὴ πολυπραγμονεῖν τὸν καιρόν. Προσενήνοχε δὲ αὐτοῖς καὶ τῆς ἡθικῆς διδασκαλίας παραίνεσιν. ᾿Αχριδέστερον δὲ ταῦτα ἡ κατὰ μέρος ἑρμηνεία δι-
Ē Thessalonikē prōteuei men tēs Makedonias" edebato de prothymōs to sōterion kērygma. Ho de theios ᾿Apostolos kai entautha chatepēxe ta tēs eusebeias themelia, antilegontōn ren ᾿iondaiōn kai hēroechchlinas epiboulas ho thesteodios {{.81ss, alo men tēs ϑessalonichēs eis tēn Beroian ēlthen, apo de tēs Beroias eis tas ᾿Athēnas apepleuse. Tōn de ge pepisteukotōn diēnekōs peripherōn tēn merimnan, ton prismacharion Timotheon apo tōn ᾿Athēnōn eis tēn Thessalonikēn exepempsen, hōste autous ereisai kai aratynai, kai tōn para tōn enantiōn prospheromenou s mēchanēmatōn deixai dynatōterous. Houtos epanelthōn epenese men to tēs pisteōs amachon, ephē de deisthai autous didaskalias tinos? paraineseōs peri tinōn zē tę̄matōn par᾽ hautois kinoumenōn. Gegraphe toinyn “hēn epistolēn, prōton men hautōn to sterrhyn tēs pisteōs euphēmōn, epeita prosmenein tōn nekrōn tēn anastatin parainōn, tēs de tou Kyriou parou» sia: mē polypragmonein ton kairon. Prosenēnoche de autois kai tēs hēthikēs didaskalias parainesin. ᾿Achridesteron de tauta hē kata meros hermēneia di-
[Argument.] Thessalonica is the first city of Macedonia, and it received the saving preaching eagerly. The divine Apostle laid the foundations of piety there too, though the Jews opposed him … and avoiding their plots, the inspired Paul went from Thessalonica to Berea, and from Berea sailed to Athens. But carrying constant concern for those who had believed, he sent the thrice-blessed Timothy from Athens to Thessalonica to support and strengthen them and to make them stronger than the schemes brought against them by their opponents. On his return Timothy praised the invincibility of their faith, but said that they needed some teaching and exhortation about certain questions being raised among them. He wrote this letter, then, first praising the firmness of their faith, then exhorting them to await the resurrection of the dead and not to busy themselves with the time of the Lord’s coming. He also offered them exhortation in moral teaching. The detailed interpretation [will set out] these things more exactly.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Acts 17:1–15 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Thess 3:1–6 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Theodoret sets out the occasion of 1 Thessalonians: Timothy's report on the Thessalonians' firm faith and their questions about the resurrection and the Lord's coming.
- The argument (hypothesis) of the letter. Words are lost in the scan after “though the Jews opposed him” (marked …). Allusions: Acts 17:1–15; 1 Thess 3:1–6. Latin debris was removed; letters misread by the OCR were corrected or translated by sense.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Latin of Migne's parallel column, read as Greek letters; OCR slip (letters misread: χ for κ, δ/θ for β, ! or : for ι); marginal letter and column figure): πο πὶ Δ] Δ γον δυβοορί!. [ὑπ 8- → ; Α 505 → ; εὐσεδεῖας → εὐσεβεῖας; ἐπιθουλὰς → ἐπιβουλὰς.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. 1 Thess. pref. (PG 82; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-1-thessalonicenses/0). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 1
1.1PG 82
α΄. ε Παῦλος καὶ Σιλουανὸς καὶ Τιμόθεος τῇ Ἐκκλησίᾳ Θεσσαλονικέων, ἐν Θεῷ Πατρὶ καὶ Κυρίῳ Ἰητοῦ Χριστῷ" χάρι: ὑμῖν, καὶ εἰρήνη, ἀπὸ Θεοῦ Πατρὸς καὶ Κυρίου " Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ. ν» Σιϊουανὸν γοῦμαι τὸν Σίλαν καλεῖ:θαι. Οὗτος γὰρ αὐτῷ καὶ ἂν Φιλίπποις, καὶ ἐν Θεσσαλονίκῃ, καὶ ἐν Βεροίᾳ συνΐν, καὶ τοῦτον σὺν τῷ τρισμακαρίῳ Τιμοθέῳ χατλλιπών, εἰς τὰς ᾿Αθήνας ἀπῆρς. Τούτοις ἐν ταῖς ᾿Αθήναις: διατρίβων προσέμενεν᾽ οὗτοι αὑτῷ καὶ ἐν β΄.“ε« Εὐχαριπτοῦμεν τῷ Θεῷ πάντοτε περὶ πάντων ὑμῶν, μνείαν ὑμῶν ποιούμενοι ἐπὶ τῶν προσευχῶν ἡ μῶν. ν» Διδασκόμεθα πρῶτον εὐχαριστεῖν ὑπὲρ τῶν προῦπηργμένων ἡμῖν ἀγαθῶν, εἶθ᾽ οὕτως αἰτεῖν τὰ ἐλλείπαντα, Τοῦτο γὰρ ἔἕατιν. εὑρεῖν πανταχοῦ ποιοῦντα τὸν θεῖον ᾿Απήαστολον, Διδάσκει δὲ καὶ ἐφ᾽ οἷ; ἂν ὑμνεῖ τὸν τῶν ὅλων Θεόν. «᾿Αδιαλείπτως (γ΄.) μνημονεύοντες ὑμῶν τοῦ ἔργουπῆς (αὶ πίστους, καὶ τοῦ κόπου τῆς ἀγάπης. καὶ τῆς ὑπομονῆς «τἣς τλπέδος τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ ἔμπροσθεν “οὗ Θεοῦ καὶ Πατρὸς; ἡ λῶν. ν» ΓΚργον τῆς Ξίστεως. τὸ εν) κινδύνοις β:θαιην" οὐ γὰρ μόνον ἐνεϊρήνῃ καὶ γαλένῃ δεικνύναι πρῤοτήχει τὴν πίστιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐν κλύδωνι καὶ ζάλῃ ταύτης ἔχεσθαι δεῖ. Οὕτω καὶ ἡ ἀγάπη οὐ μόνον ἔχει: τὴν ἡδίστην ἀπόλαυσιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν ὑπερθάλλαντα κόπον. Φέρειν γὰρ προσήκει τὰ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ πλημμελήματα, κἂν φβονῇ, κἂν ὀργίζηται, τ ἀγάπῃ τὸν χόπκαν συνέζευξε, τῇ δὲ ἐλπίδι συνταξε τὴν ὑπομονήν, Ἐλπίδα δὲ ἡμῖν δέδωκεν ὁ σπότης Χριστὸς τῆς ἀναστάφεω; τῶν νεκρῶν, τῆς ἀθχυάτου ζωῆς, τἧς βασιλείας τῶν οὐρανῶν. μένειν δὲ προσήκει τὸν ταύτην δεξάμενον τὴν ἐλπίδα ιν καὶ φέρειν γευνφίως τὰ προσπίπτοντα σκυθρωπά, Ἐπόπτης δὲ τούτων, φησὶν, ἐστὶν ὁ τῶν ὅλων Θεός" τὸ γὰρ, ἔμπροσϑεν τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ Πατρὺς ἡμῶν, τοῦτο δηλοῖ. δ΄, ε΄. « Εἰδότες, ἀδελφοὶ ἢγαπη μένοι, ὑπὸ Θ:οῦ τὴν ἐκλογὴν ὑῶν, ὅτι τὸ Εὐαγγέλιον ἡ μῶν οὐκ ἐγενήθη εἰς; ὑμᾶς ἐν λόγῳ μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐν δυνόμε:, καὶ ᾿ ἐν " Πυτύματι ἀτίῳ, καὶ ἕν πληροφορίᾳ πολλῇ, καθὼς οἴδατε, οἷοι ἐγενήθημεν ἐν ὑμῖν δι᾽ ὑμᾶς.» Ὑμεῖς ἐστε τῆς τοῦ Εὐαγγελίου δυνάμεως; μάρτυρες … μεν μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν ἀλήθειαν τῶν λόγων διὰ τῶν θανμάτων ἐδείξαμεν. Μεταδεδώχαμεν δὲ ὑμῖν καὶ ἧς μετειλήφαμεν χάριτος, Τοῦτο γὰρ λέγει ἐν Πνεὺς ματι ἁγίῳ. "Ἔπεισε δὲ ὑμᾶς καὶ τῶν κινδύνων τὸ ἐγεθος, οἷς οὐκ εἴξαμεν, ὡς θεῖα τὰ παρ' ἡμῶν προσφερόμενα. Τὸ γὰρ, οἷοι ἐγενήθημεν ἐν ὑμῖν δι ὑμᾶς, τοὺς κινδύνους δηλοῖ, οὗς ὑπὲρ αὐτῶ» ὑπέστησαν, τὸ σωτήριον αὐτοῖς προσφέροντες κῇ-
a΄. e Paulos kai Silouanos kai Timotheos tę̄ Ekklēsią Thessalonikeōn, en Theǭ Patri kai Kyriǭ Iētou Christǭ" chari: hymin, kai eirēnē, apo Theou Patros kai Kyriou " Iēsou Christou. n» Siïouanon goumai ton Silan kalei:thai. Houtos gar autǭ kai an Philippois, kai en Thessalonikę̄, kai en Beroią synïn, kai touton syn tǭ trismakariǭ Timotheǭ chatllipōn, eis tas ᾿Athēnas apērs. Toutois en tais ᾿Athēnais: diatribōn prosemenen᾽ houtoi hautǭ kai en b΄.“e« Euchariptoumen tǭ Theǭ pantote peri pantōn hymōn, mneian hymōn poioumenoi epi tōn proseuchōn hē mōn. n» Didaskometha prōton eucharistein hyper tōn proupērgmenōn hēmin agathōn, eith᾽ houtōs aitein ta elleipanta, Touto gar heeatin. heurein pantachou poiounta ton theion ᾿Apēastolon, Didaskei de kai eph᾽ hoi? an hymnei ton tōn holōn Theon. «᾿Adialeiptōs (g΄.) mnēmoneuontes hymōn tou ergoupēs (ai pistous, kai tou kopou tēs agapēs. kai tēs hypomonēs «tēs tlpedos tou Kyriou hēmōn Iēsou Christou emprosthen “hou Theou kai Patros? hē lōn. n» NKrgon tēs Xisteōs. to en) kindynois b:thaiēn" ou gar monon eneïrēnę̄ kai galenę̄ deiknynai prrotēchei tēn pistin, alla kai en klydōni kai zalę̄ tautēs echesthai dei. Houtō kai hē agapē ou monon echei: tēn hēdistēn apolausin, alla kai ton hyperthallanta kopon. Pherein gar prosēkei ta tou adelphou plēmmelēmata, kan phbonę̄, kan orgizētai, t agapę̄ ton chopkan synezeuxe, tę̄ de elpidi syntaxe tēn hypomonēn, Elpida de hēmin dedōken ho spotēs Christos tēs anastapheō? tōn nekrōn, tēs athchyatou zōēs, tēs basileias tōn ouranōn. menein de prosēkei ton tautēn dexamenon tēn elpida in kai pherein geunphiōs ta prospiptonta skythrōpa, Epoptēs de toutōn, phēsin, estin ho tōn holōn Theos" to gar, emprosϑen tou Theou kai Patrys hēmōn, touto dēloi. d΄, e΄. « Eidotes, adelphoi ēgapē menoi, hypo Th:ou tēn eklogēn hyōn, hoti to Euangelion hē mōn ouk egenēthē eis? hymas en logǭ monon, alla kai en dynome:, kai ᾿ en " Pytymati atiǭ, kai hen plērophorią pollę̄, kathōs oidate, hoioi egenēthēmen en hymin di᾽ hymas.» Hymeis este tēs tou Euangeliou dynameōs? martyres … men monon, alla kai tēn alētheian tōn logōn dia tōn thanmatōn edeixamen. Metadedōchamen de hymin kai hēs meteilēphamen charitos, Touto gar legei en Pneus mati hagiǭ. "Epeise de hymas kai tōn kindynōn to egethos, hois ouk eixamen, hōs theia ta par' hēmōn prospheromena. To gar, hoioi egenēthēmen en hymin di hymas, tous kindynous dēloi, hous hyper autō» hypestēsan, to sōtērion autois prospherontes kę̄-
“Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: grace to you and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” I think that Silas is the one called Silvanus. For he was with him in Philippi, in Thessalonica, and in Berea; and leaving him with the thrice-blessed Timothy, he departed for Athens. He waited for them while staying in Athens; they [were with him] also in …
“We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers.” We are taught first to give thanks for the good things already given to us, and then to ask for what is lacking. For one can find the divine Apostle doing this everywhere. He teaches also for what he hymns the God of all: “Remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.” The “work of faith” is firmness in dangers; for faith ought to be shown not only in peace and calm, but must also be held fast in surge and storm. So too love has not only the sweetest enjoyment but also surpassing labor. For one must bear a brother’s faults, even if he is envious, even if he is angry. [That is why] he yoked labor to love and joined endurance to hope. Christ the Master has given us hope of the resurrection of the dead, of the immortal life, of the kingdom of heaven. The one who has received this hope must endure and nobly bear the gloomy things that befall him. And the overseer of these things, he says, is the God of all; for “before our God and Father” shows this.
“Knowing, brothers beloved by God, your election, because our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and in much full assurance, as you know what kind of men we were among you for your sake.” You are witnesses of the power of the gospel … not only [words], but we also showed the truth of the words through miracles. And we imparted to you also the grace we had received; this is what he means by “in the Holy Spirit.” And the greatness of the dangers, to which we did not yield, persuaded you that what we brought was divine. For “what kind of men we were among you for your sake” shows the dangers they underwent for them while bringing them the saving preaching.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
1 Thess 1:1–5 (quotation, high confidence) · Acts 17:1–15 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Theodoret identifies Silvanus with Silas and explains Paul's thanksgiving for the Thessalonians' work of faith, labor of love, and endurance of hope, and the power of the gospel among them.
- The ref holds the lemmas 1 Thess 1:1, 1:2, 1:3, and 1:4–5. Words are lost in the scan at the end of the comment on 1:1 and after “witnesses of the power of the gospel” (marked …). Allusions: Acts 16–17. Latin of Migne’s parallel column and footnotes, read as Greek letters, were removed; letters misread by the OCR were corrected or translated by sense.
Notes on the original text
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Topics: Prayer
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. 1 Thess. 1.1 (PG 82; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-1-thessalonicenses/1-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.6PG 82
ς΄. « Καὶ ὑμεῖς μιμηταὶ ἡμῶν ἐγενήθητε, καὶ τοῦ Κυρίου, δεξάμενοι τὸν λόγον ἐν θλίψει πολλῇ, μετὰ χαρᾶς Πνεύματος ἁγίου. » Μέγα μὲν Θεσσαλονικέων ἐγκώμιον καὶ τὸ τοὺς ἀποστόλους ζηλῶσαι" πολλῷ δὲ μεῖζόν, μᾶλλον δὲ πάντων μέγιστον, τὸ καὶ αὐτοῦ τοῦ Δεσπότου μιμήσασθαι τὰ παθήματα, καὶ μὴ
s΄. « Kai hymeis mimētai hēmōn egenēthēte, kai tou Kyriou, dexamenoi ton logon en thlipsei pollę̄, meta charas Pneumatos hagiou. » Mega men Thessalonikeōn enkōmion kai to tous apostolous zēlōsai" pollǭ de meizon, mallon de pantōn megiston, to kai autou tou Despotou mimēsasthai ta pathēmata, kai mē
“And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit.” It is great praise of the Thessalonians that they emulated the apostles; but much greater, or rather greatest of all, that they imitated the sufferings of the Master himself, and not …
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
1 Thess 1:6 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Theodoret praises the Thessalonians for imitating the apostles and the sufferings of the Lord.
- Lemma 1 Thess 1:6. The end of the comment is lost in the scan.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip (letters misread: χ for κ, δ/θ for β, ! or : for ι)): Θεσσαλονιχέων → Θεσσαλονικέων.
Topics: Persecution
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. 1 Thess. 1.6 (PG 82; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-1-thessalonicenses/1-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.7PG 82
ζ΄. « Ὧττε γενέσθαι ὑμᾶ; τύπους πᾶσι τοῖς πι΄ στεύουσιν ἐν τῇ Μακεδονίᾳ, καὶ ἐν τῇ ᾿Αχαῖλ.» Ἠύξησς τὴν εὐφημίαν, ἀρχέτυπα αὐτοὺς εὐτεθεία; γεγενῆσθαι φήσας ἔθνεσι μεγίστοις καὶ ἐπὶ σοφίᾳ τ « Ἀφ᾽ ὑμῶν γὰρ ἐξέχηται ὁ λόγος τοῦ Ἀυοἴου, οὗ μόνον ἐν τῇ Μακεδονίᾳ καὶ ᾿Αχαῖᾷ, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐν παντὶ τόπῳ ἡ πίστις ὑμῶν ἡ πρὸς τὸν θεὼ ἐξελήλυθε, ν Καὶ τί λέγω, φησὶ, τὴν Μακεδονίαν καὶ τὴ» ᾿Αχαῖαν; Πανταχοῦ γὰρ ἄδεται «ἴς πίστεως ὑμῶν ἡ θερμότης. Τὸ δὲ, ἀφ᾽ ὑμῶν ἐξήχηται ὁ 16γος τοῦ Κυρίου, εἴρηκεν, οὐκ ἐπειδὴ ἐκεῖθεν τὴν ἀρχὴν ἔλαβε τὸ κήρυγμα, ἀλλ᾽ ὅτι τούτων ἡ περὶ τὰ θεῖα προθυμία πολυθρύλλητος γενομένη, πολλοὺς εἰ; ζῆλον τῆς εὐσεβείας ἐκίνησέν. «Ὥστε μὴ χρείαν ἔχειν ἡμᾶς λαλεῖν τι. (ϑ'.) Αὺτὰ γὰρ" περὶ ἡμῶν ἀπαγγέλλουσιν ὁποίαν εἴσοδον ἔσχομεν πρὸς ὑμᾶς. ν Προὔλαβεν ἡμᾶς ἡ φήμη, καὶ παρ᾽ ἄλλων ἀκούομεν ἃ λέγειν ἐθέλομεν. Δήλῃ γὰρ ἅπασι γέγονε τῆς ἡμετέρας διδασκαλίας ἡ ἐν ὑμῖν εὐκαρπία. ε Καὶ πῶς ἐπεστρέψατε πρὸς κὸν θεὸν ἀπὸ τῶν εἰδώλων, δουλεύειν " Θεῷ ζῶντι καὶ ἀληθ:νῷ. » Διαῤῥήδην ἡμᾶς ἐδίδαξεν ὁ θεῖος ᾿Απόστολος, πῶς προσήκει νοεῖν τὸ, ἵνα. γιγώσκχωσί σὲ τὸν μὲγον ἀληθινὸν Θεόν. Οὐ γὰρ τῷ Υἱῷ συγκρίνων, ἀλλὰ τοῖς οὐκ οὖσι θεοῖς τὸν ὄντα Θεὸν, ζῶντα καὶ ἀληθινὸν αὐτὸν προσηγόρευσε. Καὶ ζῶντα μὲν αὐτὴν ὠνόμασεν, ὡς ἐκείνων οὐ ζώντων" ἀληθινὸν δὲ, ὡς ἐχτίων ψευδῶς θεῶν καλουμένων, υ.. ε Καὶ ἀναμένειν ὁ τὸν Υἱὸν αὐτοῦ ἐκ τῶν οὖ“ ρανῶν, ὃν ἤγειρεν ἔχ τῶν νεκρῶν, Ἰησοῦν, τὸν ἐνόμενον ἡμᾶς ἀτὸ τῆς ὀργὴς τῆς ἐρχομένης.» Τῆς τῶν εἰδώλων, φησὶ, πλάνης ἐλευθερώσας, καὶ πρὸς τὴ ἔχυτοῦ μεταθεὶς δεσποτείαν, τὴν δευτέραν ἡμᾶ; προσμένει» ἐκέλευσε τοῦ Μονογενοῦς ἐπιφάνειαν, ὦ; πῆς ἡ πείλη μένης τιμωρίας κρείττους ἡμᾶς ἀποφανεῖ. Εἰδέναι μέντοι προσήκει, ὡς οὔτε ἡ θεία τοῦ Μονογενοῦς φύσις ἐκ νεκρῶν ᾿γέρθη, ἀπαθὴς γάρ’ οὔτε μὴν Ἑτερο; υἱὸς ὁ Ἰησοῦς παρὰ τὸν μονογενῆ Υἱόν" ἀλλ᾽ ὁ αὑτὸς μὲν ἔστιν, ἔπαθε δὲ ὡς ἄνθρωπος, καὶ ἀνἔστη ὡς ἄνθρωπος.; α΄, 8΄. « Αὐτοὶ γὰρ οἴδατε, ἀδελφοὶ, τὴν εἴσοδον Ἐμῶν τὴν πρὸς ὑμᾶ;, ὅτι οὐ κενὴ γέγονεν. ᾿Αλλὰ προπαθόντες, καὶ ὑβρισθέντες, καθὼς οἴδατε, ἐν Φιπρὸς ὑμᾶς τὸ Εὐαγγέλιον τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐν πολλῷ ἀγῶνι.». Ἵκσνῃ καὶ τῶν παθημάτων ἡ μαρτυρία δεῖξαι τοῦ κηρύγματος τὴν ἀλήθειαν. Οἱ γὰρ ἐξαπατᾷν ἐπιχειροῦντες μέχρι τῶν κινδύνων τὸ προσωπεῖον περίκεινται" ὅταν δὲ τούτους θεάσωνται, σφᾶς αὐτοὺς ἀπογυμνοῦσι, καὶ τὸ ψεῦδος ἐλέγχουσι. Τούτου χάρ:ν ὁ θεῖος ᾿Απόστολος τῶν ἐν Φιλίπποις δεσμῶν, καὶ μαστίγων, καὶ τῆς μετὰ ταῦτα παῤῥησίας ἀνέμνγ σε" ξιδάσχων ὡς πλείονος ἐνεπλήσθη μετὰ τὰ σκυθρωπὰ προθυμίας, ἐπειδὴ προεώρα τῶν πόνων τὸ κέρδος.
z΄. « Hōtte genesthai hyma? typous pasi tois pi΄ steuousin en tę̄ Makedonią, kai en tę̄ ᾿Achail.» Ēuxēss tēn euphēmian, archetypa autous eutetheia? gegenēsthai phēsas ethnesi megistois kai epi sophią t « Aph᾽ hymōn gar exechētai ho logos tou Auoiou, hou monon en tę̄ Makedonią kai ᾿Achaią, alla kai en panti topǭ hē pistis hymōn hē pros ton theō exelēlythe, n Kai ti legō, phēsi, tēn Makedonian kai tē» ᾿Achaian? Pantachou gar adetai «is pisteōs hymōn hē thermotēs. To de, aph᾽ hymōn exēchētai ho 16gos tou Kyriou, eirēken, ouk epeidē ekeithen tēn archēn elabe to kērygma, all᾽ hoti toutōn hē peri ta theia prothymia polythryllētos genomenē, pollous ei? zēlon tēs eusebeias ekinēsen. «Hōste mē chreian echein hēmas lalein ti. (ϑ'.) Auta gar" peri hēmōn apangellousin hopoian eisodon eschomen pros hymas. n Proulaben hēmas hē phēmē, kai par᾽ allōn akouomen ha legein ethelomen. Dēlę̄ gar hapasi gegone tēs hēmeteras didaskalias hē en hymin eukarpia. e Kai pōs epestrepsate pros kon theon apo tōn eidōlōn, douleuein " Theǭ zōnti kai alēth:nǭ. » Diarrhēdēn hēmas edidaxen ho theios ᾿Apostolos, pōs prosēkei noein to, hina. gigōskchōsi se ton megon alēthinon Theon. Ou gar tǭ Huiǭ synkrinōn, alla tois ouk ousi theois ton onta Theon, zōnta kai alēthinon auton prosēgoreuse. Kai zōnta men autēn ōnomasen, hōs ekeinōn ou zōntōn" alēthinon de, hōs echtiōn pseudōs theōn kaloumenōn, y.. e Kai anamenein ho ton Huion autou ek tōn ou“ ranōn, hon ēgeiren ech tōn nekrōn, Iēsoun, ton enomenon hēmas ato tēs orgēs tēs erchomenēs.» Tēs tōn eidōlōn, phēsi, planēs eleutherōsas, kai pros tē echytou metatheis despoteian, tēn deuteran hēma? prosmenei» ekeleuse tou Monogenous epiphaneian, ō? pēs hē peilē menēs timōrias kreittous hēmas apophanei. Eidenai mentoi prosēkei, hōs oute hē theia tou Monogenous physis ek nekrōn ᾿gerthē, apathēs gar’ oute mēn Hetero? huios ho Iēsous para ton monogenē Huion" all᾽ ho hautos men estin, epathe de hōs anthrōpos, kai anestē hōs anthrōpos.? a΄, 8΄. « Autoi gar oidate, adelphoi, tēn eisodon Emōn tēn pros hyma?, hoti ou kenē gegonen. ᾿Alla propathontes, kai hybristhentes, kathōs oidate, en Phipros hymas to Euangelion tou Theou en pollǭ agōni.». Hiksnę̄ kai tōn pathēmatōn hē martyria deixai tou kērygmatos tēn alētheian. Hoi gar exapatąn epicheirountes mechri tōn kindynōn to prosōpeion perikeintai" hotan de toutous theasōntai, sphas autous apogymnousi, kai to pseudos elenchousi. Toutou char:n ho theios ᾿Apostolos tōn en Philippois desmōn, kai mastigōn, kai tēs meta tauta parrhēsias anemng se" xidaschōn hōs pleionos eneplēsthē meta ta skythrōpa prothymias, epeidē proeōra tōn ponōn to kerdos.
“So that you became examples to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.” He increased the praise by saying that they had become models of piety for very great nations, even nations [famed] for wisdom. “For from you the word of the Lord has sounded forth, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith toward God has gone out.” And why do I speak, he says, of Macedonia and Achaia? Everywhere the fervor of your faith is sung. He said “from you the word of the Lord has sounded forth” not because the preaching took its beginning from there, but because their zeal for divine things, having become widely talked of, moved many to zeal for piety. “So that we need not say anything. For they themselves report about us what kind of entrance we had to you.” The report has gone ahead of us, and we hear from others what we wish to say. For the fruitfulness of our teaching among you has become plain to all. “And how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God.” The divine Apostle has plainly taught us how one should understand “that they may know you, the only true God.” For he called him living and true not in comparison with the Son, but setting the God who is against the gods who are not. He named him living, since they are not living; and true, since they are falsely called gods. “And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.” Having freed us from the error of idols, he says, and transferred us to his own lordship, he bade us await the second appearing of the Only-begotten, as one who will make us stronger than the threatened punishment. One must know, however, that the divine nature of the Only-begotten did not rise from the dead, for it is impassible; nor is Jesus another son besides the only-begotten Son; but he is the same, and he suffered as man and rose as man.
“For you yourselves know, brothers, our entrance to you, that it was not in vain. But having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, … to you the gospel of God in much conflict.” The testimony of the sufferings too is enough to show the truth of the preaching. For those who try to deceive wear the mask up to the point of dangers; but when they see these, they strip themselves bare and expose the lie. For this reason the divine Apostle recalled the bonds and scourges at Philippi and the boldness that followed, teaching that after the gloomy things he was filled with greater zeal, since he foresaw the gain of the labors.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
1 Thess 1:7–2:2 (quotation, high confidence) · John 17:3 (quotation, high confidence) · Acts 16:22–24 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Theodoret explains how the Thessalonians' faith became famous, why the living and true God is contrasted with idols rather than with the Son, and how Paul's sufferings confirm his preaching.
- The ref holds the lemmas 1 Thess 1:7, 1:8, 1:9a, 1:9b, 1:10, and 2:1–2. Theodoret reads “the only true God” (John 17:3) as setting God against idols, not against the Son, and says that the Only-begotten suffered and rose as man, his divine nature being impassible; translated as written. Part of the lemma of 2:2 is lost in the scan (marked …). Allusion to Acts 16:22–24. Apparatus notes and Latin of Migne’s parallel column were removed; letters misread by the OCR were corrected or translated by sense.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Latin of Migne's parallel column, read as Greek letters; OCR slip (letters misread: χ for κ, δ/θ for β, ! or : for ι); apparatus note): ΚΑ, Ὑς περὶ αὐτῶν ἃ δουλξύξτιν -τ ξοχομένης, ν. 10, ἐμ → ; Α ϑεϊοννάι δυΐδηι εϑῖ, πος αἰνίνα Ομίρον αἱ πὰ- → ; ἄδετα! → ἄδεται; ἔλαδε → ἔλαβε; εὐσεδείας → εὐσεβείας; Προὔλαδεν → Προὔλαβεν; εὐχαρπία → εὐκαρπία; ἐχείνων → ἐκείνων; ὑδρισθέντες → ὑβρισθέντες.
Topics: Christology, Persecution
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. 1 Thess. 1.7 (PG 82; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-1-thessalonicenses/1-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 2
2.3PG 82
γ΄. « Ἢ γὰρ παράκλησις ἡμῶν οὐκ ἐκ πλάνης, οὔτε ἐξ ἀκαθαρσίας 7, οὔτε ἐν δόλῳ. » Παράχιλησιν τὴν διδασκαλίαν ἐκάλεσεν. Οὐκ ἔοικε, φησὶ, τὰ παρ᾿ ἡμῶν προσφερόμενα τῇ μυθολογίᾳ τῶν ποιητῶν, ἃ πολλοῦ μὲν ψεύδους, πολλῆς δὲ ἀκολασίας ἐμπέπληστα" οὔτε μὴν δόλῳ χρώμενοι συνεργῷ εἰς ὄλεθρον ὑμᾶς θηρεύομεν..
g΄. « Ē gar paraklēsis hēmōn ouk ek planēs, oute ex akatharsias 7, oute en dolǭ. » Parachilēsin tēn didaskalian ekalesen. Ouk eoike, phēsi, ta par᾿ hēmōn prospheromena tę̄ mythologią tōn poiētōn, ha pollou men pseudous, pollēs de akolasias empeplēsta" oute mēn dolǭ chrōmenoi synergǭ eis olethron hymas thēreuomen..
“For our exhortation was not from error, nor from uncleanness, nor in deceit.” He called the teaching “exhortation.” What we bring, he says, does not resemble the mythology of the poets, which is full of much falsehood and much licentiousness; nor do we hunt you down for destruction with deceit as our accomplice.
1 Thess 2:3 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Theodoret explains that Paul's teaching, unlike the poets' myths, contains no falsehood, impurity, or deceit.
- Quotation: 1 Thess 2:3.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip (letters misread: χ for κ, δ/θ for β, ! or : for ι)): χρώμενο: → χρώμενοι.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. 1 Thess. 2.3 (PG 82; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-1-thessalonicenses/2-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude (Opus) from the Greek as printed in Migne PG 82 (archive.org OCR); no public-domain English exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.
2.4PG 82
δ΄. «᾿Αλλὰ καθὼς δεδοχιμάσμεθα ὑπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ τοστευθῆναι τὸ Εὐαγγέλιον, οὕτως λαλοῦμεν, οὐκ ὡς ἀνθρώποις ἀρέσκοντες, ἀλλὰ τῷ Θεῷ τῷ δοχιμάζοντι «ἃ: καρδίας ἡ μῶν. ν Οὐκ αὑτοχειροτόνητοι διδάσκαλοι χαθεστέχαμεν, ἀλλ᾽ ὑπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ τὸ Εὐαγγέλιον ἐπιστεύθημεν. Οὗ δὴ χάριν ὡς ὑπὸ μάρτυρι τῷ Θεῷ “ πάντα λέγομέν τε καὶ πράττομεν" ἴσμεν γὰρ ὡς οὐδὲν αὐτὸν λέληθε τῶν τῆς ψυχῆς κινημάτων. δ᾽ ὃ, καθὼς δεδοκιμάσμεθα ὑπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἀντὶ τοῦ, Ἐπειδὴ ἔδοξεν αὐτῷ καὶ ἐδοκίμασε πιστεῦσαι ε’". ε υῦτε γάρ ποτε ἐν λόγῳ κολακείας ἐγενήθημεν, καθὼς οἴδατε, οὔτε ἐν πρρφάσει πλεονεξίας, Θεὸς ἡ μάρτυς. ν Τῆς μὲν κολακείας αὐτοὺς ἐκάλεσε μάρπυρὰς δῆλα γὰρ τοῖς ἀκούουσι τῶν κολάκων τὰ ῥέματα τῆς δὲ πλεονεξίας οὐκ ἔτι αὑτοὺς, ἀλλὰ τὸν τῶν ὅλων Ἐπόπτην, Λανθάνει γὰρ πολλάκις ἀνθρώποὺς ὁτοῦ γιγνομένου σκοπός. Πιλεονεξίαν δὲ κέχληχκε τὸ ἐπὶ χρήμασι κηρύξαι. -΄, ζ΄. «Οὔτε ζητοῦντες ἐξ ἀνθρώπων δόξαν, οὔτε ἀφ᾽ ὑμῶν, οὔτε ἀπ᾽ ἄλλων, δυνάμενοι ἐν βάρει εἶναι, ὡς Χριστοῦ ἀπόστολοι. » Οὔτε μὴν δόξης ἀνθρωπίνης ᾿ ἐρῶμεν. Τοῦτο διὰ μέσου τέθτιχε " τὰ δὲ ἐπαγόμενα πρὸς τὸ πρὸ τούτου εἰρημένον, οὔτε πιεονεξίως. Τούτῳ γὰρ ἁρμόττει, δυνάμενοι ἐν ὄἔημεν, φητῖν, ἐκ τοῦ Εὐχγγελίου ζῆν, ἀλλ᾽ οὐκ ἐχρησάμεθα τῇ ἐξουσίᾳ. Τὸ ὅδ, ἐν βάρει, πρὰς. τοῦ το" … ἡδονῆς παρέχοντας εἴρηκεν. «᾿Αλλ᾽ ἐγενήθημεν ἥπιοι " ἐν μέσῳ ἁμῶν " ὡς ἄν προτὸς θάλπῃ τὰ ἑαυτῆς τέχνα (η, οὕτως ἱμειρόμενοι ὑμῶν εὐδοκοῦμεν ὑμῖν μεταδοῦναι οὐ μόνον τὸ Εὐαγγέλιον τοῦ Θεηῦ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰς “ἑαυτῶν ψυχὰς, διότι ἀγαπητοὶ ἡμῖν γεγένησθε.» ἜἜξειξε διὰ τῆς εἰκόνος, καὶ τὴν ἠπιότητα, καὶ τὴν χηδεμονίαυ. ἑαυτόν. Τὴν αὐτὴν γὰρ καὶ τροφὸν καλεῖ, καὶ μητέρα. Ὡς ἐὰν τροφὸς γὰρ, φησὶ, θάλπῃ τὰ ἐἑφυτῆ; τέχνα, καὐτὴ καὶ ἡμεῖς παραπλησίως ἐμειρέμεθα καὶ ποθοῦμὲν πρὺς τῇ πνευματικῇ διδασκαλίᾳ καὶ τὰς ἡμετέρας δ΄. ε Μνημονεύετε γὰρ, ἀδελφοὶ, τὰν κόπον ἡμῶν, καὶ τὸν μόχθον.» Διδάαχξι δὲ καὶ τίς οὗτος. ε Νυκτὸς γὰρ καὶ ἡμέρας ἐργαζόμενοι πρὸς " τὸ μὴ ἐπιαρῇσα! τινα ὑμῶν, ἐκηρύξαμεν εἰς ὑμᾶς τὸ. Εὐαγγῶμκαν. τοῦ Θεοῦ. α "Ἔδειξε ταῦ πάνου τὴν ὑπερβολὴν, αὖ μόνον κόπον καὶ μόχθον εἰπὼν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ταῖς ἡ μέραις τὸν ". ε Ὑμεῖς μάρτυρες καὶ ὁ Θεὸς. ὡς ὁσίως καὶ δικαίως καὶ ἀμέμπτως ὑμῖν τοῖς πιστεύουτιν ἔξιαν ἔδειξεν, Οὐ γὰρ εἶπεν, ΓΔμεμπτοι πᾶσιν ὥφϑη« μεν, ἀλλ᾽, ὑμῖκ τοῖς πιστεύουσι. Ταῦ δὲ Θεοῦ τὴν μαρτυρίαν προστέθεικεν " ἐπειδὴ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις δῆλα τὰ ὁρώμενα μόνα, τῷ ὃὲ θεῷ καὶ τὰ τὼς τα’, ιβ΄, ε Καθάπερ οἴδατε, ὡς ἕνα ἔχχστον ὑμῶν͵ ὡς πατὴρ τέχνᾳ ἑαντοῦ, παρακαλοῦντες ὑμᾶς, καὶ τῆσαι ὑμᾶς ἀξίως τοῦ Θεοῦ τοῦ καλέσαντος ὑμᾶς εἰς τὴν ξαυτοῦ βασιλείαν καὶ δάξαν. ν» Πάλιν ἑτέραν πλειόνων ἣν περὶ αὐτοὺς ἔχει φιλοστοῤγίαν δεικνύς. ἔλγαν δὲ ἀρμοδίως τὰ τρία τέθεικε, τὸ πσραχᾶψίιεγοι. Οὐ γὰρ μόνων ψυχαγωγίαν δεῖ τοῖς ἀθυμσῦσι ᾿ προσφέρειν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺς ῥᾳστώνῃ συξῶντας πεσῦα: τῇ μνήμῃ τῶν ἠπειλημένων κακῶν. Ταῦτα ἂὲ, ἐποίουν, φησὶ, προτρέπων ἡμᾶς κατάλληλον Ὁ ἐλέσθφι βίον τῷ χεχληχότι Θεῷ, καὶ τῶν οὐρανῶν “ν τ΄ς εδιὰ τοῦτα καὶ ἐμεῖς εὐχαριστοῦμεν τῷ Θεῷ ἀδιαλείπτως, ὅτι παραλαβόντες λόγον ἀκοῆ: παρὶ ἡμῶν τοὺ Θεαῦ, ἐδέξασθε οὐ λόγαν. ἀνθρώπων, ἀλλὰ, καθώς ἐστιν ἀληθῶς, λάγον Θεοῦ, ὃς καὶ ἐνερ». γεῖται ἐν ὑμῖν τοῖς Ξιστεύουσιν. Ἐπειδὴ τῇ δια. μαρτυρίᾳ δέης ἐνέθηχς, τοῖς ἐπαίνοις παρεμυθήσατο. Οὐ γὰρ ὡς ἀνθρωπίνους, φησὶ, λόγοις, ἀλλ' ὡς “Ἔδειξε δὲ αὐτοὺς τοιούτους καὶ τῶν πραγμάτων ἡ
d΄. «᾿Alla kathōs dedochimasmetha hypo tou Theou tosteuthēnai to Euangelion, houtōs laloumen, ouk hōs anthrōpois areskontes, alla tǭ Theǭ tǭ dochimazonti «ha: kardias hē mōn. n Ouk hautocheirotonētoi didaskaloi chathestechamen, all᾽ hypo tou Theou to Euangelion episteuthēmen. Hou dē charin hōs hypo martyri tǭ Theǭ “ panta legomen te kai prattomen" ismen gar hōs ouden auton lelēthe tōn tēs psychēs kinēmatōn. d᾽ ho, kathōs dedokimasmetha hypo tou Theou, anti tou, Epeidē edoxen autǭ kai edokimase pisteusai e’". e yyte gar pote en logǭ kolakeias egenēthēmen, kathōs oidate, oute en prrphasei pleonexias, Theos hē martys. n Tēs men kolakeias autous ekalese marpyras dēla gar tois akouousi tōn kolakōn ta rhemata tēs de pleonexias ouk eti hautous, alla ton tōn holōn Epoptēn, Lanthanei gar pollakis anthrōpous hotou gignomenou skopos. Pileonexian de kechlēchke to epi chrēmasi kēryxai. -΄, z΄. «Oute zētountes ex anthrōpōn doxan, oute aph᾽ hymōn, oute ap᾽ allōn, dynamenoi en barei einai, hōs Christou apostoloi. » Oute mēn doxēs anthrōpinēs ᾿ erōmen. Touto dia mesou tethtiche " ta de epagomena pros to pro toutou eirēmenon, oute pieonexiōs. Toutǭ gar harmottei, dynamenoi en oeēmen, phētin, ek tou Euchngeliou zēn, all᾽ ouk echrēsametha tę̄ exousią. To hod, en barei, pras. tou to" … hēdonēs parechontas eirēken. «᾿All᾽ egenēthēmen hēpioi " en mesǭ hamōn " hōs an protos thalpę̄ ta heautēs techna (ē, houtōs himeiromenoi hymōn eudokoumen hymin metadounai ou monon to Euangelion tou Theēu, alla kai tas “heautōn psychas, dioti agapētoi hēmin gegenēsthe.» EExeixe dia tēs eikonos, kai tēn ēpiotēta, kai tēn chēdemoniau. heauton. Tēn autēn gar kai trophon kalei, kai mētera. Hōs ean trophos gar, phēsi, thalpę̄ ta heephytē? techna, kautē kai hēmeis paraplēsiōs emeiremetha kai pothoumen prys tę̄ pneumatikę̄ didaskalią kai tas hēmeteras d΄. e Mnēmoneuete gar, adelphoi, tan kopon hēmōn, kai ton mochthon.» Didaachxi de kai tis houtos. e Nyktos gar kai hēmeras ergazomenoi pros " to mē epiarę̄sa! tina hymōn, ekēryxamen eis hymas to. Euangōmkan. tou Theou. a "Edeixe tau panou tēn hyperbolēn, au monon kopon kai mochthon eipōn, alla kai tais hē merais ton ". e Hymeis martyres kai ho Theos. hōs hosiōs kai dikaiōs kai amemptōs hymin tois pisteuoutin exian edeixen, Ou gar eipen, GDmemptoi pasin hōphϑē« men, all᾽, hymik tois pisteuousi. Tau de Theou tēn martyrian prostetheiken " epeidē tois anthrōpois dēla ta horōmena mona, tǭ hoe theǭ kai ta tōs ta’, ib΄, e Kathaper oidate, hōs hena echchston hymōn͵ hōs patēr techną heantou, parakalountes hymas, kai tēsai hymas axiōs tou Theou tou kalesantos hymas eis tēn xautou basileian kai daxan. n» Palin heteran pleionōn hēn peri autous echei philostorgian deiknys. elgan de armodiōs ta tria tetheike, to psrachapsiiegoi. Ou gar monōn psychagōgian dei tois athymsysi ᾿ prospherein, alla kai tous rhąstōnę̄ syxōntas pesya: tę̄ mnēmę̄ tōn ēpeilēmenōn kakōn. Tauta ae, epoioun, phēsi, protrepōn hēmas katallēlon Ho elesthphi bion tǭ chechlēchoti Theǭ, kai tōn ouranōn “n t΄s edia touta kai emeis eucharistoumen tǭ Theǭ adialeiptōs, hoti paralabontes logon akoē: pari hēmōn tou Theau, edexasthe ou logan. anthrōpōn, alla, kathōs estin alēthōs, lagon Theou, hos kai ener». geitai en hymin tois Xisteuousin. Epeidē tę̄ dia. martyrią deēs enethēchs, tois epainois paremythēsato. Ou gar hōs anthrōpinous, phēsi, logois, all' hōs “Edeixe de autous toioutous kai tōn pragmatōn hē
“But as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.” We were not established as self-appointed teachers, but were entrusted with the gospel by God. For this reason we say and do everything as with God for our witness; for we know that none of the movements of the soul escapes him. “As we have been approved by God” means “since it seemed good to him, and he judged us fit to be entrusted.” “For we never came with a word of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed; God is witness.” Of the flattery he called them witnesses, for the words of flatterers are plain to those who hear them; but of the greed no longer them, but the overseer of all things. For the aim of what is done often escapes people. He called preaching for money “greed.” “Nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from others, though we could have been burdensome as apostles of Christ.” Nor do we love human glory. This he put in between; what follows refers to what was said before it, “nor with greed.” For “though we could have been burdensome” fits this: we could, he says, have lived from the gospel, but we did not use the authority. And “burdensome” refers to … providing pleasure, he said.
“But we were gentle in your midst, as a nurse cherishes her own children; so, longing for you, we were well pleased to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own souls, because you had become dear to us.” Through the image he showed both his gentleness and his care … himself. For he calls the same woman both nurse and mother. “As a nurse,” he says, “cherishes her own children,” so we too likewise longed and yearned to give, besides the spiritual teaching, also our own …
“For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil.” He teaches also what this is: “For working night and day so as not to be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.” He showed the excess of the toil by saying not only “labor and toil” but by adding the nights to the days … “You are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and blamelessly we behaved toward you who believe.” He showed … For he did not say, “We appeared blameless to all,” but “to you who believe.” He added the witness of God, since to people only what is seen is plain, but to God also what is hidden.
“As you know how, like a father with his own children, we exhorted each one of you, [encouraging and charging you] to walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.” Again he shows another proof of the great affection he has for them. Very fittingly he set down the three: exhorting, [encouraging, charging]. For one must not only offer comfort to the disheartened but also persuade those who live in ease by the memory of the evils that have been threatened. These things I did, he says, urging you to choose a life suited to the God who called you and to the kingdom of heaven …
“For this reason we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received the word of hearing from us, the word of God, you accepted it not as the word of men but, as it truly is, the word of God, which is also at work in you who believe.” Since by his solemn testimony he had instilled fear, he comforted them with praises. For not as human words, he says, but as … The facts too showed them to be such …
1 Thess 2:4–13 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 9:14–15 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Theodoret explains that Paul preached as one entrusted by God, without flattery, greed, or desire for glory, caring for the Thessalonians like a nurse and a father, and that they received his word as God's word.
- The ref holds the lemmas 1 Thess 2:4, 2:5, 2:6, 2:7–8, 2:9a, 2:9b, 2:10, 2:11–12, and 2:13, not only 2:4. The scan text is badly damaged here: words are lost in several places (marked …), and part of the lemma of 2:11–12 is lost and supplied in brackets from the participles Theodoret names. Allusion to 1 Cor 9:14–15. Latin of Migne’s parallel column and its footnotes, read as Greek letters, were removed; letters misread by the OCR (χ for κ, δ for β, : for ι) were corrected; other slips are translated by sense.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Latin of Migne's parallel column and footnotes, read as Greek letters; Greek lost in the scan here; Latin of Migne's parallel column, read as Greek letters; Latin of Migne's parallel column, read as Greek letters; OCR slip in ἐχρησάμεθα; OCR slip (letters misread: χ for κ, δ/θ for β, ! or : for ι)): υἱ πὶ δι ποι θ᾽ ἀν88 τπιοἱοβιῖ 88, πα ]ον ὶ αἰδου αὶ δι θ᾽ απ δι ἴα ἢ). δ δ ΐπι κιιὁδὶ οὐ αν → ; Ὁ ἀρονία δυμῖ [18 πὶ δυάίαηϊ!; ΔΥΆΓΙΠ5. Δα 61}}, → ; ὅρα ἴῃ πιο αὐτὰ τὶ ἰΦ. νην Ἰιος οὐδ ΠΟΙ Γεῖ, εἰ βοδδοιημδὲ τοῦδ ιν αὐ οι, παι, πολὶδ (πογαὶ αἱ 46 Ενδηβοίία υἱνούθηυβ, Α ἐχρησάυεθα → ἐχρησάμεθα; γεν δον ϑοιϑι δι δίοπι οἱ βο εἰτα ἀϊηδιη. τῆ 8. δὲ ΘΗ Βΐ 5. 8 Ϊ 38. ἰδοῦ β ποςιγῖί, οἱ [41ἰ|σ δι οι. ν» την Ὠἷ.» βίοι! ΒΆΠΟΙ6. οἱ δία, Θὲ δ'η8 βορυο θυ ϑίοηθ υο]} 5 αἱ ἐγο εἰ. θυ 8.» ῥ ε πη την διππ οἱ φίονίδν, αὶ Ἀυγϑια ἰδ δὴ βγοροβυ! δἰ πιὶδὶ οὐϊοδίαπιεδ. Νον βου ῃν δηΐηι δα! απ α 631 σοηδοι ἷο 118 αἱ διὰ δ οὐ. Βοσου φαΐ. εις. 5. «960 εἰ ΟΡΟΓΔΙΙΡ ἴδ νον 4} γα 5. » θη ἴα οομίοσ δι, ΝῸΣ ὁπ Π υἱ οὐ μοῦ" → … ; μάρτυρ: → μάρτυρι; πιστεῦσα: → πιστεῦσαι; χηρύξα: → κηρύξαι; Νυχτὸς → Νυκτὸς; ἐχηρύξαμεν → ἐκηρύξαμεν; ὑπερδολὴν → ὑπερβολὴν; προστέθειχεν → προστέθεικεν; παραλαδόντες → παραλαβόντες.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. 1 Thess. 2.4 (PG 82; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-1-thessalonicenses/2-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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2.11PG 82
αι. " πεῖρα. Προφητικῆς γὰρ καὶ αὐτοὶ χάριτος ἀπολαύσαντες, καὶ προεφήτενον, καὶ γλώσσαις. ἐλάλουν, καὶ θαύματα ἐπετέλουν παράδοξα. Οὐ μόνον δὲ ὁ λόγος καῦτα ἡνίξατο, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺς ὑπὸ τῶν ἐναντίων προπενεχθέντας αὐτοῖς κινδύνους. Τοῦτο γὰρ τὰ ἐπαγόμενα δηλοῖ, ᾿ ὃ εδ', τε΄. «Ὑμεῖς "᾿ Ὑὰρ μιμηταὶ ἐγενήθητε, ἀδελφοὶ, τῶν Ἐκχχλησιῶν τοῦ θεοῦ, τῶν οὐσῶν ἐν τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ, ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ, ὅτι τὰ αὐτὰ ἐπάθετὲ καὶ ὑμεῖς ὑπὸ τῶν ἰδίων συμφνὴ)ςτῶν, καθὼς καὶ αὐτοὶ ὑπὸ τῶν Ἰουδαίων, τῶν καὶ τὸν Κύριον ἀποχτεινάντιυν Ἰησοῦν, καὶ τοὺς ἰδίου; προφήτας, καὶ ἡμᾶς ἐκδιωξάντων, καὶ Θεῷ μὴ ἀρεσκόντων, καὶ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις ἐναντίων. » Εἶτα δεέχνυσ: τῆς ἕναν-
ai. " peira. Prophētikēs gar kai autoi charitos apolausantes, kai proephētenon, kai glōssais. elaloun, kai thaumata epeteloun paradoxa. Ou monon de ho logos kauta hēnixato, alla kai tous hypo tōn enantiōn propenechthentas autois kindynous. Touto gar ta epagomena dēloi, ᾿ ho ed', te΄. «Hymeis "᾿ Hyar mimētai egenēthēte, adelphoi, tōn Ekchchlēsiōn tou theou, tōn ousōn en tę̄ Ioudaią, en Christǭ Iēsou, hoti ta auta epathete kai hymeis hypo tōn idiōn symphnē)stōn, kathōs kai autoi hypo tōn Ioudaiōn, tōn kai ton Kyrion apochteinantiyn Iēsoun, kai tous idiou? prophētas, kai hēmas ekdiōxantōn, kai Theǭ mē areskontōn, kai pasin anthrōpois enantiōn. » Eita deechnys: tēs henan-
… the experience. For they too, enjoying prophetic grace, prophesied and spoke in tongues and performed wonderful miracles. And the word hinted not only at these things but also at the dangers brought against them by their opponents. What follows shows this: “For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God that are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because you too suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews, who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and do not please God, and are opposed to all men.” Then he shows the …
1 Thess 2:13 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Thess 2:14–15 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 12:10 (allusion, low confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Theodoret notes the spiritual gifts of the Thessalonians and the persecution they suffered, like the churches of Judea.
- This ref continues the comment on 1 Thess 2:13 (from ref 2.4) and gives the lemma 2:14–15; it does not treat 2:11. The opening words are lost and the comment breaks off at the end. The lemma’s words about the Jews are Paul’s and are translated exactly. Allusion to 1 Cor 12:10. Apparatus notes, read as Greek letters, were removed.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (apparatus notes, read as Greek letters): εἰς δεῖ ἰη ΡΙΝοηιδο, 10, 19 λανθάνοντ: Β "' Καὶ διά Β, → .
Topics: Persecution
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. 1 Thess. 2.11 (PG 82; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-1-thessalonicenses/2-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude (Opus) from the Greek as printed in Migne PG 82 (archive.org OCR); no public-domain English exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.
2.16PG 82
ις΄. « Κωλυόντων ἡμᾶς τοῖς ἔθνεσι λαλῆσαι ἵνα αωθῶαιν, εἰς τὸ ἀναπληρῶσαι αὐτῶν τὰς ἁμαρτίας πάντοτΞ. Ἕφθασς δὲ ἐπ᾽ αὑτοὺς ἧἡ ὀργὴ εἰ; τέλος. ν Ἱκανὸν εἰς παραψυχὴν τὸ παράδειγμα. Ἢ γὰρ τοῦ πάθους ὁμοιότης ἀρχοῦσαν προσφέρει ψυχαγωγίαν, Διδάσκει δὲ ἡ λᾶς ὁ λόγος, ὡς καὶ οἱ ἐν Θεσσαλονίκῃ᾽ “πεπιστευκότες ὑπὸ τῶν ἀπίστων ἐπορθήθησαν, καὶ τῶν ὑπαρχόντων αὑτοῖς ἐγυμνώθησαν. Ταυτὸ δὲ τὸ πάθος ὑπέμειναν καὶ οἱ ἐν τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ τὸ σωτήριον ξεξάμενοι κήρυγμα. Πρθηγόρευσε δὲ καὶ τῶν Ἰουδτίων τὴν πανωλεθρίαν- "ἔφθασε γὰρ ἐπ᾽ αὐτοὺς ἡ ὀργὴ εἰς τέλος. Οὐκ ἔτι γὰρ ἀνακλήσεως ἀπολαύσηυσι. Οὕτω καὶ ὁ μακάριος ἔφη Δαβίδ' ε Ἱνατί, ὁ Θεὸς, ἀπώσω εἰς τέλος;» Τὸ δὲ, πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις ἐναντίων, οὕτω νοητέον' Τῇ οἰκουμένῃ, φησὶ, προσενεγκεῖν προσετάχθημεν τὸ σωτήριον κήρυγμα. ὗτοι δὲ ἡμῖν ἀντιπράττουσιν. Οὐκοῦν πάντων ἀνθρώπων εἰσὶ δυσμενεῖς. ιζ΄. ο Ἡμεῖς δὲ, ἀδελφοὶ, ἀπορφανισθέντες 1" ἀφ᾽ ὑμῶν πρὸς καιρὸν ὥρας, προσώπῳ, οὐ καρδίᾳ, περιτσότέρως ἑσπουδάσαμεν τὸ πρόσωπον ὑμῶν ἰδεῖν ἐν “πολλῇ ἐπιθυμίᾳ.» ᾿Απείχασεν ἑαυτὸν μητρὶ τρεφούσῃ καὶ θαλπούσῃ τὰ βρέφη, εἶτα πατρὶ φιλοστόργως περὶ τοὺς παῖδας διακειμένῳ, νῦν μειρακίῳ παραπλησίως ἄωρον ὀρφανίαν ὀδυρομένῳ, καὶ τοὺς γεγεννηκότας ἐπιζητοῦντι, ποθεῖν αὐτοὺς ἔφη, καίτοι πρὸς ὀλίγον αὐτῶν χωρισθείς. Καλὴ δὲ καὶ ἢ προσθήκη, προσώπῳ καὶ οὐ καρδίᾳ, ἀντὶ τοῦ, Τῆς αἰσθη-. τῆς ὑμῶν ἐστέρημαι θέας, τῆς δὲ νοητῆς ἀπολαύω διηνεκῶς. τη΄, εΔιὸ 5 ἠθελήσαμεν ἐλθεῖν πρὸς ὑμᾶς, ἐγὼ μὲν Παῦλος: καὶ ἅπαξ καὶ δὶ:, καὶ ἐνέκοψεν ἡμᾶς ὁ Σατανᾶς.» Ἐπέσχον, φησὶ, τὴν προθυμίαν οἱ ἐπάλληλοι πειρασμοί" τούτους δὲ ὁ κοινὸς κινεῖν πολέμιος εἴωθεν. Οὗ δὴ χάριν αὐτὸν ἔφη χεχωλυχέναι τὴν πρὸς αὐτοὺς ἔκβη λίαν. ιθ΄, γ΄. ς Τίς γὰκ ἡμῶν ἐλπὶς, ἢ χαρὰ, ἣ στέφανος ὲ
is΄. « Kōlyontōn hēmas tois ethnesi lalēsai hina aōthōain, eis to anaplērōsai autōn tas hamartias pantotX. Hephthass de ep᾽ hautous hēē orgē ei? telos. n Hikanon eis parapsychēn to paradeigma. Ē gar tou pathous homoiotēs archousan prospherei psychagōgian, Didaskei de hē las ho logos, hōs kai hoi en Thessalonikę̄᾽ “pepisteukotes hypo tōn apistōn eporthēthēsan, kai tōn hyparchontōn hautois egymnōthēsan. Tauto de to pathos hypemeinan kai hoi en tę̄ Ioudaią to sōtērion xexamenoi kērygma. Prthēgoreuse de kai tōn Ioudtiōn tēn panōlethrian- "ephthase gar ep᾽ autous hē orgē eis telos. Ouk eti gar anaklēseōs apolausēusi. Houtō kai ho makarios ephē Dabid' e Hinati, ho Theos, apōsō eis telos?» To de, pasin anthrōpois enantiōn, houtō noēteon' Tę̄ oikoumenę̄, phēsi, prosenenkein prosetachthēmen to sōtērion kērygma. hytoi de hēmin antiprattousin. Oukoun pantōn anthrōpōn eisi dysmeneis. iz΄. o Hēmeis de, adelphoi, aporphanisthentes 1" aph᾽ hymōn pros kairon hōras, prosōpǭ, ou kardią, peritsoterōs hespoudasamen to prosōpon hymōn idein en “pollę̄ epithymią.» ᾿Apeichasen heauton mētri trephousę̄ kai thalpousę̄ ta brephē, eita patri philostorgōs peri tous paidas diakeimenǭ, nyn meirakiǭ paraplēsiōs aōron orphanian odyromenǭ, kai tous gegennēkotas epizētounti, pothein autous ephē, kaitoi pros oligon autōn chōristheis. Kalē de kai ē prosthēkē, prosōpǭ kai ou kardią, anti tou, Tēs aisthē-. tēs hymōn esterēmai theas, tēs de noētēs apolauō diēnekōs. tē΄, eDio 5 ēthelēsamen elthein pros hymas, egō men Paulos: kai hapax kai di:, kai enekopsen hēmas ho Satanas.» Epeschon, phēsi, tēn prothymian hoi epallēloi peirasmoi" toutous de ho koinos kinein polemios eiōthen. Hou dē charin auton ephē chechōlychenai tēn pros autous ekbē lian. ith΄, g΄. s Tis gak hēmōn elpis, ē chara, hē stephanos e
“Hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they may be saved, so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But the wrath has come upon them to the end.” The example is enough to comfort them, for likeness in suffering brings sufficient consolation. The word teaches us that those who had believed in Thessalonica were plundered by the unbelievers and stripped of their possessions. The same suffering was endured also by those in Judea who had received the saving preaching. He also foretold the utter destruction of the Jews: “for the wrath has come upon them to the end.” For they will no longer enjoy being called back. So too the blessed David said: “Why, O God, have you cast us off to the end?” “Opposed to all men” is to be understood thus: we were commanded, he says, to bring the saving preaching to the whole world, and these men oppose us. Therefore they are enemies of all people.
“But we, brothers, having been orphaned from you for a short time, in presence, not in heart, endeavored the more eagerly, with great desire, to see your face.” He had compared himself to a mother nursing and cherishing her babes, then to a father affectionately disposed toward his children; now, like a youth lamenting an untimely orphanhood and seeking his parents, he said that he longed for them, though separated from them for only a short time. The addition “in presence, not in heart” is also fine; it means: I am deprived of the sight of you with the senses, but I enjoy the sight of you with the mind continually. “Therefore we wanted to come to you, I Paul, once and again, but Satan hindered us.” The successive temptations, he says, held back my zeal; and it is the common enemy who is accustomed to stir them up. For this reason he said that Satan had hindered his visit to them. “For what is our hope or joy or crown …
1 Thess 2:16–19 (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 74:1 (73:1 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Theodoret explains that the Thessalonians suffered as the churches of Judea did, that wrath has come upon the Jews who hindered the preaching, and that Paul longed to see the Thessalonians but was hindered by Satan.
- The ref holds the lemmas 1 Thess 2:16, 2:17, 2:18, and the beginning of 2:19 (continued in ref 2.17). Theodoret reads “the wrath has come upon them to the end” as foretelling the final ruin of the Jews of his day and cites Ps 74:1 (LXX 73:1); translated as written. After the beginning of 2:19 the scan text repeats an earlier page (1 Thess 2:7–16, already in refs 2.4 and 2.11); this duplicate was removed by a logged correction, and words lost in this copy (the end of the comment on 2:15 and a phrase in the comment on 2:17) were restored from the duplicate copies of the same pages. Latin of Migne’s parallel column, read as Greek letters, was removed.
Notes on the original text
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Ὡς ἐὰν τροφὸς γὰρ, φησὶ, θάλπῃ τὰ ἑαυτῇ; τέχνα, καύτῃ καὶ ἡμεῖς παραπλησίως ἐμειρέμεθα καὶ ποθοῦμὲν πρὸς τῇ πνευματικῇ ἀιδασχαλίᾳ καὶ τὰς ἡμετέρας 8΄. ε Μνημονεύετε γὰρ, ἀδελφοὶ, τὸν κόπον ἡμῶν, καὶ τὸν μόχθον. » Διδάαχξι δὲ καὶ τίς αὗτοξ. ε Νυχτὸς γὰρ καὶ ἡμέρας ἐργαζόμενοι πρὸς " τὸ μὴ ἐπιθαρῖσαί τινα ὑμῶν, ἐκηρύξαμεν εἰς ὑμᾶς τὸ Εὐαγγξμκον. τοῦ Θεοῦ. α "Ἔδειξε ταῦ πάνοῃ τὴν ὑπερδολὴν, κὐ μένον. κόπον καὶ μόχθον εἰπὼν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ταῖς ἡ μέραις τὸν νυκτερινὸν συζεύξας καιρόν. ν᾿. ε Ὑμεῖς μάρτυρες καὶ ὁ Θεὶς. ὡς ὁαίως καὶ δικαίως καὶ ἀμέμπτως ὑμῖν τοῖς πιστεύουτιν ἄξιαν ἔδειξεν. Οὐ γὰρ εἶπεν, μεν, ἀλλ᾽, ὑμῖν τοῖς πιστεύαυσι. Ταῦ ξὲ θεοῦ τὴν δῆλα τὰ ὁρώμενα μόνα, τῷ δὲ Θεῷ καὶ τὰ τὡς ια΄, ιβ΄. ε Καθάπερ οἴδατε, ὡς; ἕνα ἔχχστον ὑμῶν͵ ὡς πατὴρ τέχνᾳ ἑαυτοῦ, παρακαλοῦντες ὑμᾶς, καὶ παραμυθούμενοι, καὶ μαρτυρούμενοι, εἷς τὰ περιπα» τῆσαι ὑμᾶς ἀξίως τοῦ Θεοῦ τοῦ καλέσαντος ὑμᾶς εἰς τὴν ἑαυτοῦ βασιλείαν καὶ δάξαν. ν Πάλιν ἑτέραν πλειόνων ἣν περὶ αὐτοὺς ἔχει φιλοστοῤγίαν δεικνύς. ἔλγαν δὲ ἀρμοδίως τὰ τρία τέθεικε, τὸ πσραχαμενοι. Οὐ γὰρ μόνον ψυχαγωγίαν δεῖ τοῖς ἀθυμοῦσι ᾿ προσφέρειν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺς ῥᾳστώνῃ συζῶντας δεδίτο πεσῦαι τῇ μνήμῃ τῶν ἠπειλημένων κακῶν. Ταῦτα ὅδ, ἐποίουν, φησὶ, προτρέπων ὑμᾶς κατάλληλον ροἢ εἶτα. 5, Ὁ ἐλέαθφι βίον τῷ κεχλυηχότι Θεῷ, καὶ τῶν οὐρανῶν Ἰη!6νι βου θ, πη οι σα ἀορορίβπ αι 8 υϑυθι οἱ δυῤίίιν 6 πο) ἷς, δεδορφγίεῖβ Πυ ὦ θα τ νογῦ πὶ ον.. ἧς εδιὰ τοῦτα καὶ "} ἐμεῖς εὐχαριστοῦμεν τῷ Θεῷ ἀδιαλείπτως, ὅτι παραλαβόντες λόγου ἀκοῆς παρ' ἡμῶν, τοῦ θεοῦ, ἐδέξασθε οὐ λόγαν ἀνθρώπων, ἀλλὰ, καθώς ἐστιν ἀληθῶς, λάγαν Θεοῦ, ὃς καὶ ἐνερ» Ὑεῖται ἂν ὑμῖν τοῖς ξιστεύοναιν. Ἐπειδὴ τῇ διαν μαρτυρίᾳ δέας ἐνέθηχς, τοῖς ἐπαίνοις παρεμυθήσατο. Αὐ γὰρ ὡς ἀνθρωπίνους, φησὶ, λόγους, ἀλλ᾽ ὡς “δειξε δὲ αὐτοὺς τοιούτους καὶ τῶν πραγμάτων ἡ δ Τὰ φυϊάδην Ἰερὶ! Β οἱ ἄγει! ἡπιοτργοίδι!ο ρογερίοιο συμ γὴν Δί, "εἴς ρα ἴη βηηοιίφο, 10. 19 λανθάνον: Β "' Καὶ διὰ Β. πεῖρα. Προφητικῆς γὰρ καὶ αὐτοὶ χάριτος ἀπολαύ- Α σαντες, καὶ προεφήτευον, καὶ γλώσσαις. ἐλάλουν, καὶ θαύματα ἐπετέλουν παράξοξα. Οὐ μόνον δὲ ὁ λόγος καῦτα ἡνίξατο, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺς ὑπὸ τῶν ἐναντίων προπενεχθόντας αὐτοῖς κινδύνους. Τοῦτο γὰρ τὰ ἐπαγόμενα δηλοῖ, : ἵ «δ', τε΄. ε Ὑμεῖς "" γὰρ μιμηταὶ ἐγενήθητε, ἀδελφιλ, τῶν Ἐκκλησιῶν τοῦ θεοῦ, τῶν οὐσῶν ἐν τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ, ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ, ὅτι τὰ αὐτὰ ἐπάθετέ καὶ ὑμεῖς ὑπὸ τῶν ἰδίων συμφνυλετῶν, καθὼς καὶ αὐτοὶ ὑπὸ τῶν Ἰουδαίιον, τῶν καὶ τὸν Κύριον ἀπο- ᾿χτεινάντιων Ἰησοῦν, καὶ τοὺς ἰδίους προφήτας, καὶ ἡμᾶς ἐκδιωξάντων, καὶ Θεῷ μὴ ἀρεσκόντων, καὶ κἂἄσιν ἀνθρώποις ἐναντίων. » Εἶτα δεέχνυσ! τῆς ἐνανις΄. « Κωλυόντων ἡμᾶς τοῖς ξῦνεαι λαλῆσαι ἵνα σωθῶσιν, εἰς τὸ ἀναπληρῶσα: αὐτῶν τὰς ἁμαρτίας ᾿ πάντοτΞ. Ἔφθασε δὲ ἐπ᾽ αὑτοὺς ἡ ὀργὴ εἰ; τέλος. ν Ἱκανὸν εἰς παραψυηχὴκ τὸ παράδειγμα. Ἢ γὰρ τοῦ πάθους ὁμοιότης ἀρχοῦσαν προσφέρει ψυχαγωγίαν. Διδάσκε: δὲ ἡ λᾶς ὁ λόγος, ὡς καὶ οἱ ἐν Θεσσαλονίκῃ᾽ πεπιστευκότες ὑπὸ τῶν ἀπίστων ἐπορθήθησαν, καὶ τῶν ὑπαρχόντων αὐτοῖς ἐγυμνώθῆσαν. Ταυτὸ δὲ τὸ πάθος ὑπέμειναν καὶ οἱ ἐν τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ τὸ σωτήριον δεξάμενοι κήρυγμα. Πρϑηγόρευσε δὲ καὶ τῶν Ἰουδιίων τὴν πανωλεθρίαν: ἔφθασε γὰρ ἐπ᾽ αὐτοὺς ἡ ἐργὴ εἰς τέιλος. Οὐκ ἔτι γὰρ ἀναχλήσεως ἀπολαύσηυσι. Οὕτω καὶ ὁ μακάριος ἔφη Δαδίδ- ε Ἱνατί, ὁ Θεὸς, ἀπώσω εἰς τέλος;» Τὸ δὲ, πᾶσιν ἀγθρώποις ἐναντίων, οὕτω νοητέον. Τῇ οἰκουμένῃ, φησὶ, προσενεγκεῖν προσετάχθημεν τὸ σωτήριον κήρυγμα. Οὗτοι δὲ ἡμῖν ἀντιπράττουσιν. Οὐκοῦν πάντων ἀνθρώπων εἰσὶ δυσμενεῖς. → ; Διδάσκε: δὲ ἡ λᾶς ὁ λόγος, ὡς καὶ οἱ ἐν Θεσσαλονίκῃ᾽ “ → Διδάσκει δὲ ἡ λᾶς ὁ λόγος, ὡς καὶ οἱ ἐν Θεσσαλονίκῃ᾽ “; ἀναχλήσεως ἀπολαύσηυσι. Οὕτω καὶ ὁ μακάριος ἔφη Δαδίδ' → ἀνακλήσεως ἀπολαύσηυσι. Οὕτω καὶ ὁ μακάριος ἔφη Δαβίδ'; ἔχδη → ἔκβη.
Topics: Persecution
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. 1 Thess. 2.16 (PG 82; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-1-thessalonicenses/2-16). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude (Opus) from the Greek as printed in Migne PG 82 (archive.org OCR); no public-domain English exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.
2.17PG 82
χαυχέσεως; ἃ οὐκὶ καὶ ὑμεῖς ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ ἐν τῇ αὐτοῦ παρουσίᾳ; Ὑμεῖς γάρ ἔφτε ἡ δόξα ἡμῶν καὶ ἣἡ χαρά. » Ἑπειδὴ μητρὶ ἑαυτὸν ἀπείκασε τιθηνουμένῃ τὰ βρέφη, τὰ αὐτῆς " φθέγγεται ῥήματα. Αὐταὶ γὰρ τὰ κομιδῇ νέα παιδία, καὶ ἐλπίδα, καὶ χαρὰν, καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα προσαγοχαταλειφθῆναι ἐν ᾿Αθήναις μόνον "ἷ, καὶ ἐπέμψαμὲν Τιμόθεον, τὸν ἀδελφὸν ἡμῶν, καὶ διάκονον "" τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ συνεργὸν ἡμῶν ἐν τῷ Εὐαγγελίῳ τοῦ Χριστοῦ, εἰς τὸ στηρίξαι ὑμᾶς, καὶ παραχαλέσοι ὑμᾶς, περὶ " τῆς πίστεως ὑμῶν, τῷ μηδένα σαίνεσθαι: ἐν ταῖς θλίψεσι ταύταις. » Ἐπειδὴ ἡμεῖς δραμεῖ) πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἑκωλύθημεν, ἀπεστείλαμεν Τιμόθεον, ὃ; ἡμέτερός ἔστιν ἀδελφὸς, “τὸ θεῖον δὲ πεπίστευτα, Εὐαγγέλιον. ᾿Απεστείλαμεν δὲ αὐτὸν, οὐκ ἵνα ἑτέραν ὑμῖν προσενέγκῃ διδασκαλίαν, ἀλλ᾽ ἵνα ἐπὶ τῖς προτέρας ὑμᾶς ἐρείπῃ, καὶ παρακαλέσῃ φέρειν γενναίως τὰς τῶν ἐναντίων ἐπιβουλὰς, καὶ μὴ κλονεῖσθαι, μηδὲ τῆς προτέρας ἐξίστασθαι γνώμης. 'Ἐπισημῆνα. σθαι μέντοι δεῖ, ὅτι διάκονον τοῦ Θεοῦ χέχληκχε τὸν πιστευόμενον τὸ τοῦ Χριστοῦ Εὐαγγέλιον, διδάσκω" ὡ; οὐκ οἷδεν ἐλάττονα τοῦ Πατρὸς τὸν ΥἹόν. ε Αὐτὰ γὰρ οἴδατε ὅτι εἰς τοῦτο κείμεθα.» ἼΛνωθεν ἡμῖν ταῦτα προηγόρευσεν ὁ Δεσπότης Χριστός 3: οὐ δὲν οὖν καινὸν ὑπομένομεν, ἀλλ᾽ ἅπερ αὑτὸς προείρήκεν᾽" « Ἰδοὺ ἀποστέλλω ὑμᾶς ὡς πρόδαταξ ἐν μέσῳ λύκων "» καΐ" «ε Μακάριοι οἱ δεδιωγμένοι ἕνεκεν δικαιοσύνης, ὅτι αὐτῶν ἐστιν ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν.» Καὶ δι «Καὶ γὰρ ὅτε πρὺς ὑμᾶς ἧμιν, προελέγομεν ὑμῖν, ὅτι μέλλομεν θλίβεσθαι, καθὼς καὶ ἐγένετο, καὶ οἴδατε. » Τοῖς προῤῥηθεῖσι. τὰ παρ᾽ ἡμῶν πράγματα μεμαρτύρηκε. ε΄. «Διὰ τοῦτο κἀγὼ μηκέτι ἜΤΟΣ ἔπεμψα εἰς τὸ γνῶναι τὴν πίστιν ὑμῶν, μήπως ἐπείρασεν ὑμᾶς ὁ πειράζων, καὶ εἰς κενὸν γένηται ὁ κόπος ἡμῶν.» Τούτου χάριν μηκέτι φέρων τὴν τῆς φροντίδος ὑπερ’ βολὴν, ἔπεμψα μαθεῖν ποθῶν, μὴ τις ὑμῖν ἐκ τῶν πειρασμῶν προσεγένετο βλάβη, καὶ ὃν ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν᾽ ὑπεμείναμεν, ἐζημιώθημεν πόνον. Οὕτὼ δείξας τὴν προτέραν φροντίδα, λέγει καὶ τὴν προσγενομένην Ὁ αὐτῷ θυμηδίαν ἐκ τῶν παρὰ τοῦ θαυμασίου Τιμος΄, ζ΄. εΓΑρτι δὲ ἐλθόντος Τιμοθέου πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἀφ' ὑμῶν, καὶ εὐαγγελισαμένου ἡμῖν τὴν πίστιν καὶ τὴν ἀγάπην ὑμῶν, καὶ ὅτι ἔχετε μνείαν ἡμῶν ἀγαθὴν πάντοτε, ἐπιποθοῦντες ἡμᾶς ἰδεῖν, καθάπερ χα! ἡμεῖς ὑμᾶς, διὰ τοῦτο παρεχλέθημεν, ἀδελφοὶ, ἐφ᾽ ὑμῖν ἐπὶ πάσῃ τῇ θλίψει, καὶ ἀνάγκῃ ἡμῶν διὰ τῇ; ὑμῶν πίστεως. » Τρία τέθεικεν ἀξιέρχστα, τὴν πίστιν, καὶ τὴν ἀγάπην, καὶ τοῦ διδασκάλου τὴν μνέμην. Δηλοῖ ἡ μὲν πίστις; τῆς εὐσεβεία; τὸ βέβαιον " ἡ δὲ ἀγάπη τὴν πρακτικὴν ἀρετήν " ἡ δὲ τοῦ διδασκάλου μνήμη, καὶ ὁ περὶ αὐτὸν πόθος, μαρτυεἴ τῇ περὶ τὴν διδασκαλίαν στοργῇ. Ταῦτα, φησὶν, ἡμῖν τὴν “εὐθυμίαν ἐνέθγχε, καὶ τῶν ἐπιφερομένων ἡμῖν ἐπελήσθημεν θλίψεων, ἃς διὰ τὴν ὑμετέραν ὑπομένομεν πίστιν, ἀντὶ τοῦ, διὰ τὸ κηρύττειν ὑμῖν. π΄. «Ὅτι νῦν ζῶμεν, ἐὰν ὑμεῖς στήκητε ἐν Κυρίῳ. » Τὴν γὰρ ὑμετέραν βεβαίωσιν, ζωὴν ἡμετέραν θ᾽, (. « Τίνα γὰρ εὐχαριστίαν δυνάμεθα ἀνταποδοῦναι τῷ Θεῷ περὶ ὑμῶν ἐπὶ πάσῃ τῇ χαρᾷ, ἧ καίρομεν δι' ὑμᾶ; ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ Θεοῦ ἡμῶν, νυκτὸς καὶ ἡμέρας ὑπερεκπερισσοῦ δεόμενοι εἰς τὸ ἰδεῖν ὑμῶν τὸ πρόσωπον, καὶ καταρτίσαι τὰ ὑστερήματα τῆς πίστεω; ὑμῶν; ν Νικᾷ τῆς εὐφροσύνης τὸ μέγεθος τῆς γλώττης τὴν ὑμνῳδίαν, Οὐκ ἰσχύομεν γὰρ ἀντίῤῥοπον ὕμνον τῇ παρασχεθείσῃ ἡμῖν ἐφ᾽ ὑμῖν θυμηδίᾳ προσενεγκεῖν τῷ Θεῷ. Καὶ νύκτωρ δὲ καὶ μεθ᾽ ἐμέραν, ἀντιδολοῦμεν παρασχεῖν ἡμῖν τὸν Δεσπότην αὖθις ὑμᾶς ἰδεῖν καὶ ἐπιῤῥῶσαι, καὶ τὴν ἁρμόττουταν ὑμῖν διδασκαλίαν προσενεγκεῖν. Τοῦτο γὰρ λέγει, καταρτίσαι τὰ ὑστερήματα τῆς πί- Ταύτην δὲ αὐτοῖς τὴν ὠφέλειαν καὶ διὰ τῶν γραμμάτῶν προσφέρει ᾿ ἄρχεται δὲ ἀπὸ εὐχῆς. ια΄»«ε Αὐτὸς δὲ "' ὁ Θεὸς καὶ Πατὴρ ἡμῶν, καὶ ὁ Κύριος; ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς κατευθύναι τὴν ὁδὺν ἡμῶν πρὸς ὑμᾶς. » ᾿Αντὶ τοῦ, Πληρώσαι ἡμῶν τὸν πόθον "", καὶ τὰς ἐν μέσῳ δυσκολίας ἀνέλοι:. Καὶ παὗτα δὲ τοῦ Πατρὸς: καὶ τοῦ Υἱοῦ τὴν ἰσότητα δι- ᾿ δάσκει. Οὐ γὰρ τὴν διά πρόθεσιν τέθεικε, ἀλλὰ τὸν καί σύνδεσμον, διδάσκων ὡς τὰ αὐτὰ ὁ Πατὴρ καὶ ὁ γιὸς οἰχονομοῦσιν, ὥσπερ αὐτὰ καὶ δημιουργοῦσιν. Ὅτι δὲ μία ἡ οἰκονομία, καὶ τὰ ἐπαγόμενα μαρτυρεῖ. Τὸ γὰρ τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ Πατρὸς καταλιπὼν πρόοὠπον, μόνου μέμνηται τοῦ Υἱοῦ, χαΐ φησιν" ιϑ', ιγ΄. ε« Ὑμᾶς δὲ} ὁ Κύριος πλεονάσαι, καὶ ᾿ “περισσεύσαι τῇ ἀγάπῃ εἰς ἀλλήλους καὶ εἰς πάντας, καθάπερ καὶ ἡυεῖς εἰς ὑμᾶς, εἰς τὸ στηρίξαι ὑμῶν τὰς καρδίας ἀμέμπτους ἐν ἁγιωσύνῃ ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ - Θεοῦ καὶ Πατρὸς ἡμῶν, ἐν τῇ παρουσίᾳ τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ μετὰ πάντων τῶν ἁγίων αὖποῦ. » Τὸ τῆς ἀγάπης κατόρθωμα πλήρωμα τοῦ νόμου παντὸς ὁ θεῖος ᾿Απόστολος προσηγόρευσεν. Εὔχξεται τοίνυν αὐτοὺς καὶ τῷ ἀριθμῷ πλεονάσαι, καὶ τῇ ἀγάπῃ περιφσεῦσαι, τουτέστι, τελείαν αὐτὴν κτήσασθαι, ὥστε μηδὲν ἐλλείπειν αὐτῇ, καὶ μὴ μόνον αὐτῇ περὶ ἀλλήλους κεχρῆσθαι, ἀλλὰ καὶ περὶ πάντας τοὺς ὁμοπίστους, τοὺς ὁπουδήποτε ὄντας. Οὕτως γὰρ, φησὶ, καὶ ἡμεῖς πόῤῥωθεν ὄντες περὶ ὑμᾶς διττέθημεν, στηρίξαι ὑμῶν τὰς καρδίας βουλόμενοι, ὥσιτς ὑμᾶ: μώμου παντὸς ἐλευθέρους, καὶ νῦν ὁρᾶσθαι τῷ τῶν ὅλων Θεῷ, καὶ μετὰ τῶν ἀγένν … τῶν τῷ Δεαπότῃ ὑπαντῆσαι Χριστῷ. α᾽. «Τὸ λοιπὸν οὖν, ἀδελςοἱ, ἐρωτῶμεν ὑμᾶ;, καὶ παρακαλοῦμεν ἐν Κυρίῳ Ἰησοῦ,» Τούτ΄, χεχοηυὲνοι τῷ σκοπῷ, προσφέρομεν ὑμῖν τὴν ταραΐνε σιν. Τὸ γὰρ «Ἰοιπὸν, ἀντὶ τοῦ, ᾿Αποχρώντως ὑμῖν τὴν ἡμετέραν παράκλησιν. Τίς δὲ αὕτη; ε« Καθὼ: ελόδετε παρ᾽ ἡμῶν τὸ πῶς δεῖ ὑμᾶς περιτατ τεῖν κυὶ ἀρέσκειν Θεῷ, ἵνα περισσεύητε μᾶλλον. » 'γπεδεῖξαμεν ὑμῖν, ποῖος θεραπεύει βίος τὸν τῶν ὅλων Θεόνποὺς τεθέντας ὑμῖν τοίνυν ὄρους φυλάττειν σπουδά-
chaucheseōs? ha ouki kai hymeis emprosthen tou Kyriou hēmōn Iēsou en tę̄ autou parousią? Hymeis gar ephte hē doxa hēmōn kai hēē chara. » Hepeidē mētri heauton apeikase tithēnoumenę̄ ta brephē, ta autēs " phthengetai rhēmata. Autai gar ta komidę̄ nea paidia, kai elpida, kai charan, kai ta toiauta prosagochataleiphthēnai en ᾿Athēnais monon "hi, kai epempsamen Timotheon, ton adelphon hēmōn, kai diakonon "" tou Theou, kai synergon hēmōn en tǭ Euangeliǭ tou Christou, eis to stērixai hymas, kai parachalesoi hymas, peri " tēs pisteōs hymōn, tǭ mēdena sainesthai: en tais thlipsesi tautais. » Epeidē hēmeis dramei) pros hymas hekōlythēmen, apesteilamen Timotheon, ho? hēmeteros estin adelphos, “to theion de pepisteuta, Euangelion. ᾿Apesteilamen de auton, ouk hina heteran hymin prosenenkę̄ didaskalian, all᾽ hina epi tis proteras hymas ereipę̄, kai parakalesę̄ pherein gennaiōs tas tōn enantiōn epiboulas, kai mē kloneisthai, mēde tēs proteras existasthai gnōmēs. 'Episēmēna. sthai mentoi dei, hoti diakonon tou Theou chechlēkche ton pisteuomenon to tou Christou Euangelion, didaskō" hō? ouk hoiden elattona tou Patros ton HuIon. e Auta gar oidate hoti eis touto keimetha.» ILnōthen hēmin tauta proēgoreusen ho Despotēs Christos 3: ou den oun kainon hypomenomen, all᾽ haper hautos proeirēken᾽" « Idou apostellō hymas hōs prodatax en mesǭ lykōn "» kaï" «e Makarioi hoi dediōgmenoi heneken dikaiosynēs, hoti autōn estin hē basileia tōn ouranōn.» Kai di «Kai gar hote prys hymas hēmin, proelegomen hymin, hoti mellomen thlibesthai, kathōs kai egeneto, kai oidate. » Tois prorrhētheisi. ta par᾽ hēmōn pragmata memartyrēke. e΄. «Dia touto kagō mēketi ETOS epempsa eis to gnōnai tēn pistin hymōn, mēpōs epeirasen hymas ho peirazōn, kai eis kenon genētai ho kopos hēmōn.» Toutou charin mēketi pherōn tēn tēs phrontidos hyper’ bolēn, epempsa mathein pothōn, mē tis hymin ek tōn peirasmōn prosegeneto blabē, kai hon hyper hymōn᾽ hypemeinamen, ezēmiōthēmen ponon. Houtō deixas tēn proteran phrontida, legei kai tēn prosgenomenēn Ho autǭ thymēdian ek tōn para tou thaumasiou Timos΄, z΄. eGArti de elthontos Timotheou pros hēmas aph' hymōn, kai euangelisamenou hēmin tēn pistin kai tēn agapēn hymōn, kai hoti echete mneian hēmōn agathēn pantote, epipothountes hēmas idein, kathaper cha! hēmeis hymas, dia touto parechlethēmen, adelphoi, eph᾽ hymin epi pasę̄ tę̄ thlipsei, kai anankę̄ hēmōn dia tę̄? hymōn pisteōs. » Tria tetheiken axierchsta, tēn pistin, kai tēn agapēn, kai tou didaskalou tēn mnemēn. Dēloi hē men pistis? tēs eusebeia? to bebaion " hē de agapē tēn praktikēn aretēn " hē de tou didaskalou mnēmē, kai ho peri auton pothos, martyei tę̄ peri tēn didaskalian storgę̄. Tauta, phēsin, hēmin tēn “euthymian enethnche, kai tōn epipheromenōn hēmin epelēsthēmen thlipseōn, has dia tēn hymeteran hypomenomen pistin, anti tou, dia to kēryttein hymin. p΄. «Hoti nyn zōmen, ean hymeis stēkēte en Kyriǭ. » Tēn gar hymeteran bebaiōsin, zōēn hēmeteran th᾽, (. « Tina gar eucharistian dynametha antapodounai tǭ Theǭ peri hymōn epi pasę̄ tę̄ charą, hē kairomen di' hyma? emprosthen tou Theou hēmōn, nyktos kai hēmeras hyperekperissou deomenoi eis to idein hymōn to prosōpon, kai katartisai ta hysterēmata tēs pisteō? hymōn? n Niką tēs euphrosynēs to megethos tēs glōttēs tēn hymnǭdian, Ouk ischyomen gar antirrhopon hymnon tę̄ paraschetheisę̄ hēmin eph᾽ hymin thymēdią prosenenkein tǭ Theǭ. Kai nyktōr de kai meth᾽ emeran, antidoloumen paraschein hēmin ton Despotēn authis hymas idein kai epirrhōsai, kai tēn harmottoutan hymin didaskalian prosenenkein. Touto gar legei, katartisai ta hysterēmata tēs pi- Tautēn de autois tēn ōpheleian kai dia tōn grammatōn prospherei ᾿ archetai de apo euchēs. ia΄»«e Autos de "' ho Theos kai Patēr hēmōn, kai ho Kyrios? hēmōn Iēsous Christos kateuthynai tēn hodyn hēmōn pros hymas. » ᾿Anti tou, Plērōsai hēmōn ton pothon "", kai tas en mesǭ dyskolias aneloi:. Kai pauta de tou Patros: kai tou Huiou tēn isotēta di- ᾿ daskei. Ou gar tēn dia prothesin tetheike, alla ton kai syndesmon, didaskōn hōs ta auta ho Patēr kai ho gios oichonomousin, hōsper auta kai dēmiourgousin. Hoti de mia hē oikonomia, kai ta epagomena martyrei. To gar tou Theou kai Patros katalipōn prooōpon, monou memnētai tou Huiou, chaï phēsin" iϑ', ig΄. e« Hymas de} ho Kyrios pleonasai, kai ᾿ “perisseusai tę̄ agapę̄ eis allēlous kai eis pantas, kathaper kai hēueis eis hymas, eis to stērixai hymōn tas kardias amemptous en hagiōsynę̄ emprosthen tou - Theou kai Patros hēmōn, en tę̄ parousią tou Kyriou hēmōn Iēsou Christou meta pantōn tōn hagiōn aupou. » To tēs agapēs katorthōma plērōma tou nomou pantos ho theios ᾿Apostolos prosēgoreusen. Euchxetai toinyn autous kai tǭ arithmǭ pleonasai, kai tę̄ agapę̄ periphseusai, toutesti, teleian autēn ktēsasthai, hōste mēden elleipein autę̄, kai mē monon autę̄ peri allēlous kechrēsthai, alla kai peri pantas tous homopistous, tous hopoudēpote ontas. Houtōs gar, phēsi, kai hēmeis porrhōthen ontes peri hymas dittethēmen, stērixai hymōn tas kardias boulomenoi, hōsits hyma: mōmou pantos eleutherous, kai nyn horasthai tǭ tōn holōn Theǭ, kai meta tōn agenn … tōn tǭ Deapotę̄ hypantēsai Christǭ. a᾽. «To loipon oun, adelsoi, erōtōmen hyma?, kai parakaloumen en Kyriǭ Iēsou,» Tout΄, chechoēuenoi tǭ skopǭ, prospheromen hymin tēn taraïne sin. To gar «Ioipon, anti tou, ᾿Apochrōntōs hymin tēn hēmeteran paraklēsin. Tis de hautē? e« Kathō: elodete par᾽ hēmōn to pōs dei hymas peritat tein kui areskein Theǭ, hina perisseuēte mallon. » 'gpedeixamen hymin, poios therapeuei bios ton tōn holōn Theonpous tethentas hymin toinyn orous phylattein spouda-
… of boasting? Is it not even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming? For you are our glory and joy.” Since he had compared himself to a mother nursing her babes, he utters her words. For mothers call their very young children their hope and their joy and the like …
… to be left behind at Athens alone, and we sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God and our fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and to encourage you concerning your faith, that no one be shaken by these afflictions.” Since we were prevented from hastening to you, we sent Timothy, who is our brother and has been entrusted with the divine gospel. We sent him not to bring you other teaching, but to support you in the former teaching and exhort you to bear nobly the plots of the adversaries, and not to be shaken nor to depart from your former conviction. One should note, however, that he called the one entrusted with the gospel of Christ “minister of God,” teaching that he does not know the Son as less than the Father. “For you yourselves know that we are appointed to this.” Christ the Master foretold these things to us from the beginning; so we endure nothing new, but what he himself foretold: “Behold, I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves”; and: “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” “For indeed, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we were to suffer affliction, just as it happened, and you know.” The facts have borne witness to what we foretold. “For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to know your faith, lest somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor should be in vain.” For this reason, no longer bearing the excess of anxiety, I sent, longing to learn whether some harm had come to you from the temptations, and we had lost the labor we endured for you. Having thus shown his former anxiety, he tells also the delight that came to him from the report of the admirable Timothy.
“But now that Timothy has come to us from you and brought us the good news of your faith and love, and that you always have a good remembrance of us, longing to see us as we also long to see you, for this reason, brothers, in all our affliction and distress we were comforted about you through your faith.” He set down three most excellent things: the faith, the love, and the remembrance of the teacher. Faith shows the firmness of piety; love, practical virtue; and the remembrance of the teacher and the longing for him bear witness to affection for the teaching. These things, he says, put good cheer in us, and we forgot the afflictions brought upon us, which we endure because of your faith, that is, because we preached to you. “For now we live, if you stand firm in the Lord.” For he called their steadfastness his own life.
“For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sake before our God, night and day praying beyond all measure that we may see your face and complete what is lacking in your faith?” The greatness of the gladness surpasses the hymnody of the tongue. For we cannot offer God a hymn equal to the delight granted us over you. And night and day we beseech the Master to grant us to see you again and strengthen you, and to offer you the teaching that suits you. This is what he means by “complete what is lacking in your faith.” … This benefit he offers them also through the letter, and he begins with a prayer: “Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.” That is: may he fulfill our longing and remove the difficulties in between. This too teaches the equality of the Father and the Son. For he did not use the preposition “through” but the conjunction “and,” teaching that the Father and the Son carry out the same economy, just as they also create the same things. That the economy is one, what follows also testifies. For leaving aside the person of the God and Father, he mentions the Son alone and says: “And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all, just as we also do toward you, so as to establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.” The divine Apostle called the achievement of love the fulfillment of the whole law. He prays, then, that they may increase in number and abound in love, that is, acquire it perfect, so that nothing is lacking to it, and practice it not only toward one another but also toward all who share the faith, wherever they may be. For so, he says, we too, though far away, are disposed toward you, wishing to establish your hearts, so that you, free from every blemish, may both now be seen by the God of all, and with the … to meet Christ the Master.
“Finally, then, brothers, we ask and exhort you in the Lord Jesus.” With this aim we offer you the exhortation. For “finally” means “sufficiently” … our exhortation to you. And what is it? “That as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, you abound more and more.” We showed you what kind of life serves the God of all; be eager, then, to keep the boundaries set for you …
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
1 Thess 2:19–4:1 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 10:16 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 5:10 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 13:10 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Theodoret explains Paul's joy in the Thessalonians, his sending of Timothy, his relief at Timothy's report, and his prayer to the Father and the Son, which shows their equality.
- The ref holds the end of the lemma 1 Thess 2:19 and the lemmas 2:20 through 4:1, not 2:17. The section opens in the scan with a duplicate copy of 1 Thess 2:17–19 (already in ref 2.16), removed by a logged correction. Words are lost in the scan after the comment on 2:20 (taking in the start of 3:1), after the comment on 3:10, after “with the” in the comment on 3:13, and after “sufficiently” (marked …). On 3:2 and 3:11 Theodoret argues for the equality of Father and Son; translated as written. Quotations: Matt 10:16; 5:10; allusion to Rom 13:10. Latin of Migne’s parallel column and apparatus, read as Greek letters, were removed; letters misread by the OCR were corrected or translated by sense.
Notes on the original text
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Topics: Trinity, Persecution, Prayer
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. 1 Thess. 2.17 (PG 82; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-1-thessalonicenses/2-17). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 3
3.2PG 82
β΄. ε« Οἴδατε γὰρ, τίνας παραγγελίας ἐδώκαμεν ὑμῖν διὰ τοῦ Κυρίου Ὁ Ἰτσοῦ. » Καὶ ἄνω, ἐν Κυρίῳ Ἰησοῦ. εἴρηκε, καὶ ἐνταῦθα διὰ τοῦ Κυρου Ἰησοῦ, ἀξιόπιστον τῇ τοῦ Δεσπότου μνήη ποιῶν τὴν παραίνεσιν. Ἵκανὰ δὲ ταῦτα τὴν ᾿Αρτίου καὶ Εὐνομίου βλασφημίαν ἐλέγξαι Εἰ γὰρ διὰ πρέθετις τὸν ὑπουργὸν ὀημαίνει, ὑπουργὸς ἄρα τοῦ Πχύλὴυ ὁ Κύριος Ἰησοῦς. Διὰ γὰρ τοῦ Κυι ίου Ἰησοῖ, τὴν παραγγελίαν κροπήνεγχε, καὶ ἐγ Νυρίῳ ᾿Ιησοῦ τὴν παράκλησιν ἐποιΐσατο, Εἰ δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ ταύτην φεύγουσι τὴν βλασφημίαν, καὶ ὁμολογοῦσι τὸν μὲν Παῦλον δοῦλον, κύριον δὲ τὸν Κύριον " δῆλον ἄρα ὡς ἀδιαφόριυς ὁ θεῖος 'Απόστολο; ταῖς προ' ἐδετι κέχρῆται. ᾿Αλλ᾽ ἐπὶ τὰ συνεχῇ τῆς ἑρμηνείας
b΄. e« Oidate gar, tinas parangelias edōkamen hymin dia tou Kyriou Ho Itsou. » Kai anō, en Kyriǭ Iēsou. eirēke, kai entautha dia tou Kyrou Iēsou, axiopiston tę̄ tou Despotou mnēē poiōn tēn parainesin. Hikana de tauta tēn ᾿Artiou kai Eunomiou blasphēmian elenxai Ei gar dia prethetis ton hypourgon oēmainei, hypourgos ara tou Pchylēu ho Kyrios Iēsous. Dia gar tou Kui iou Iēsoi, tēn parangelian kropēnenche, kai eg Nyriǭ ᾿Iēsou tēn paraklēsin epoiïsato, Ei de kai autoi tautēn pheugousi tēn blasphēmian, kai homologousi ton men Paulon doulon, kyrion de ton Kyrion " dēlon ara hōs adiaphoriys ho theios 'Apostolo? tais pro' edeti kechrētai. ᾿All᾽ epi ta synechę̄ tēs hermēneias
“For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.” Above he said “in the Lord Jesus,” and here “through the Lord Jesus,” making the exhortation trustworthy by mentioning the Master. These words are enough to refute the blasphemy of Arius and Eunomius. For if the preposition “through” signifies the servant, then the Lord Jesus is Paul’s servant; for it was “through the Lord Jesus” that Paul delivered the command, and “in the Lord Jesus” that he made the exhortation. But if they too shun this blasphemy, and confess that Paul is a servant and the Lord is Lord, then it is plain that the divine Apostle uses the prepositions without distinction. But [let us return] to the continuation of the interpretation.
1 Thess 4:2 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Thess 4:1 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Theodoret argues from Paul's use of "through the Lord Jesus" that the preposition "through" does not make the Son a subordinate, against Arius and Eunomius.
- The ref holds the lemma 1 Thess 4:2, not 3:2. Theodoret argues against the Arian and Eunomian claim that “through” (διά) marks the Son as a subordinate agent; translated as written.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. 1 Thess. 3.2 (PG 82; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-1-thessalonicenses/3-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.3PG 82
Ὑ΄. «. Τοῦτο γὰρ ἐστι θέλημα τοῦ θεοῦ, ὁ ἀγιατμὸς ὑμῶν.» Εἶτα διδάσκει, ποίαν ἀρετὴν ἐγιασμὸν προῦ- ᾿πολλὰ «ἧς ἀκ'λασία; εἴδη" οὗ δὴ χάριν οὐκ ἔφ, πορνείας, ἀλλὰ ἀπὸ πάσης πορνοίας.
Hy΄. «. Touto gar esti thelēma tou theou, ho agiatmos hymōn.» Eita didaskei, poian aretēn egiasmon prou- ᾿polla «hēs ak'lasia? eidē" hou dē charin ouk eph, porneias, alla apo pasēs pornoias.
“For this is the will of God, your sanctification.” Then he teaches what virtue he calls sanctification … many forms of licentiousness; for this reason he did not say “from sexual immorality,” but “from all sexual immorality.”
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
1 Thess 4:3 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Theodoret notes that Paul calls for abstaining from every form of sexual immorality.
- The ref holds the lemma 1 Thess 4:3, not 3:3. Words are lost in the scan, including the rest of the lemma (“that you abstain from all sexual immorality”); marked ….
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. 1 Thess. 3.3 (PG 82; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-1-thessalonicenses/3-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.4PG 82
δ΄. ε Εἰδέναι ἕκαστον ὑμῶν τὸ ἑαυτοῦ σχεῦο: σθαι ἐν ἀγιαόσμῷ καὶ τιμῇ 5.» Τινὲς τὸ, δαυτοῦ σκεῦος, τὴν ὁμόζυγα ἣρμήνευσαν" ἐγὼ δὲ νομέξω τὸ ἑνάστου δῶμα οὕτως αὐτὸν κεκληκέναι. Οὐ γὰρ τοῖς γεγαμηκόσι μόνοις «τὴν νομοθεσίαν φροσφέῥει.
d΄. e Eidenai hekaston hymōn to heautou scheuo: sthai en agiaosmǭ kai timę̄ 5.» Tines to, dautou skeuos, tēn homozyga hērmēneusan" egō de nomexō to henastou dōma houtōs auton keklēkenai. Ou gar tois gegamēkosi monois «tēn nomothesian phrospherhei.
“That each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor.” Some interpreted “his own vessel” as the spouse; but I think that he so called each person’s body. For he does not address this legislation to the married alone.
1 Thess 4:4 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Theodoret takes "his own vessel" as each person's body rather than one's wife, since the command is for all.
- The ref holds the lemma 1 Thess 4:4, not 3:4. Theodoret rejects the reading of “vessel” as “wife.”
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. 1 Thess. 3.4 (PG 82; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-1-thessalonicenses/3-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.5PG 82
ε΄. « Μὴ ἐν πάθει ἐπιθυμίας "", καθάπερ καὶ τὰ ἔθνη τὰ μὴ εἰδότα τὸν Θεόν...» ᾿Απηλλάγητε, φησὶ, τῆς πλάνης, ἐπέγνωτε τὸν ὄντα Θεόν. Μὴ μιμεῖσθε τοίνυν Δοὺς ἐν τῷ σκότει τῆς ἀγνοίας διάγοντας, … στερον τὸν νόμον ποιεῖ,
e΄. « Mē en pathei epithymias "", kathaper kai ta ethnē ta mē eidota ton Theon...» ᾿Apēllagēte, phēsi, tēs planēs, epegnōte ton onta Theon. Mē mimeisthe toinyn Dous en tǭ skotei tēs agnoias diagontas, … steron ton nomon poiei,
“Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God.” You have been freed from error, he says; you have come to know the God who is. Do not, then, imitate those who live in the darkness of ignorance … makes the law …
1 Thess 4:5 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Theodoret urges those who know the true God not to imitate the passions of the ignorant Gentiles.
- The ref holds the lemma 1 Thess 4:5, not 3:5. The end of the comment is lost; Latin of Migne’s parallel column, read as Greek letters, was removed.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Latin of Migne's parallel column, read as Greek letters; Greek lost in the scan here): Υεπβ. θ. « Εὶ π ἢοτη 0.9 (ὁ ὶς οὔλμἤυ8, ἡ δου! ρει ϊχθυβ νου ὶδ, → … .
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. 1 Thess. 3.5 (PG 82; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-1-thessalonicenses/3-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.6PG 82
ς΄. ε Τὸ μὴ ὑπερβαίνειν καὶ πλεονεκτεῖν ἐν τῷ πράγματι τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὑτοῦ. » Πιλεονδξέαν ἐνταῦθα τὴν μοιχείαν ἐκάλεσε. Τοῦ γὰρ. μὴ προσέχοιτος ἄπτεται ὁ γάμον διορύττων ἀλλόέριαν, καὶ τὴν ἄλλιν διαφέρουσαν εὐνὴν λῃστεύων, Ηὔξησε δὲ τὴν χατηγοίαν, ἀδελφὸν δείξας τὸν ἀδικούμενον: Ὑποδείκνυσι ὃὲ τὴν τιμωρίαν, τῇ παρανομίᾳ τὸ δέος ἀντιστρατεύων. ε Διότι ἔκδικος ὁ Κύριος περὶ πάντων τούτῶν, καθὼς καὶ προείπομεν ὑμῖν, καὶ διεμαρτυράμεθα. » Καὶ ἤδη γὰρ ἐδιδάξαμεν ὡς κριτής ἔστι … δίχανος ὁ τῶν ὅλων Δεσπότης, καὶ δίκας τοὺς παρᾶδὲ καὶ τῆς τιμωφίας τὸ δίκαιον.
s΄. e To mē hyperbainein kai pleonektein en tǭ pragmati ton adelphon hautou. » Pileondxean entautha tēn moicheian ekalese. Tou gar. mē prosechoitos aptetai ho gamon dioryttōn alloerian, kai tēn allin diapherousan eunēn lę̄steuōn, Ēuxēse de tēn chatēgoian, adelphon deixas ton adikoumenon: Hypodeiknysi hoe tēn timōrian, tę̄ paranomią to deos antistrateuōn. e Dioti ekdikos ho Kyrios peri pantōn toutōn, kathōs kai proeipomen hymin, kai diemartyrametha. » Kai ēdē gar edidaxamen hōs kritēs esti … dichanos ho tōn holōn Despotēs, kai dikas tous parade kai tēs timōphias to dikaion.
“That no one transgress and wrong his brother in the matter.” Here he called adultery “wronging.” For the one who breaks into another’s marriage lays hold of what does not belong to him and robs another’s bed. He increased the accusation by showing that the one wronged is a brother. And he points out the punishment, setting fear against the lawlessness. “Because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we also told you before and solemnly testified.” For we have already taught that he is judge … the Master of all is just, and [exacts] penalties from those who transgress … and also the justice of the punishment.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
1 Thess 4:6 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Theodoret explains that wronging a brother here means adultery, which the Lord will avenge.
- The ref holds the lemma 1 Thess 4:6, not 3:6. Theodoret takes πλεονεκτεῖν (“wrong,” “take advantage of”) here as adultery. Words are lost in the scan near the end (marked …). Latin of Migne’s parallel column and apparatus, read as Greek letters, were removed.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Latin of Migne's parallel column, read as Greek letters; Greek lost in the scan here; OCR slip (letters misread: χ for κ, δ/θ for β, ! or : for ι); apparatus note and Latin debris inside the word διεμαρτυράμεθα): - ΜῈ, ἡμῶν Ἵν» τοῦ. Β. Ἑθδηι, Περνοιὶ ἴδον: Καὶ. ἡμῶν. πλεονεξίας. ἠδ μεθα. → μεθα.; Λ 6( το ΠῸαι} καθ 15.. ».ὅλτ δὲν ἀοουδιη δ [θὰ πὶ → … ; ὑπερθαίνειν → ὑπερβαίνειν.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. 1 Thess. 3.6 (PG 82; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-1-thessalonicenses/3-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.7PG 82
ζ΄. « Οὐ γὰρ ἐκάλεσεν ἡμᾶς ὁ θεὺς ἐπ᾽ ἀκαθαρσίᾳ, ἀλλ᾽ ἐν ἀγιασμῷ. » Ὁ διάβολος τῶν οὐκ ὄντων θεῶν «πὰ δόγματα ἀκολασία; ἐνέπλησε, ταύτην ἰέναι τὴν ἐδὸν τοὺς ἀνθρώπου; προτρέπων" δ᾽ δὲ ὄντως θεὸς ἐκείνη» μὲν ἐκκλίνειν ἡμᾶς κελεύει, τὴν δὲ τῆς σω-
z΄. « Ou gar ekalesen hēmas ho theus ep᾽ akatharsią, all᾽ en agiasmǭ. » Ho diabolos tōn ouk ontōn theōn «pa dogmata akolasia? eneplēse, tautēn ienai tēn edon tous anthrōpou? protrepōn" d᾽ de ontōs theos ekeinē» men ekklinein hēmas keleuei, tēn de tēs sō-
“For God did not call us to uncleanness but in sanctification.” The devil filled the doctrines of the gods who are not with licentiousness, urging people to go this way; but the God who truly is bids us turn away from it and [walk] the [way] of salvation …
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
1 Thess 4:7 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Theodoret contrasts the licentious doctrines of the false gods with the true God's call to holiness.
- The ref holds the lemma 1 Thess 4:7, not 3:7. The end of the comment is lost in the scan.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip (letters misread: χ for κ, δ/θ for β, ! or : for ι)): διάδολος → διάβολος.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. 1 Thess. 3.7 (PG 82; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-1-thessalonicenses/3-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude (Opus) from the Greek as printed in Migne PG 82 (archive.org OCR); no public-domain English exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.
3.8PG 82
η΄. « Τοιγαροῦν ὁ ἀθετῶν, οὐκ ἄνθρωπον ἀθετεῖ, ἀλλὰ εὺν Θεὸν, τὸν καὶ ν᾽ δύντα τὸ Πνεῦμα αὑτοῦ τὸ ἅγιον εἰς ἡμᾶς. » Εἰς αὐτὸν τοίνυν ἡ ἀδικία χωρεῖ τὸν τῶν ὅλων Θεόν. Αὐτὸς γὰρ ἡμῖν καὶ τοῦ παν- Πνεύματος τὴν χάριν δεδώρηται. Οὕτω τὴν τῆς σιυφροσύνης διδασκαλίαν περάνας, εἰς ἕτερον εἶδος παραινέσεως μεταβαίνει. μι ὕ. «Περὶ ὃξ τῆς φιλαδελφίας οὐ χρείαν ἔχετε Ὑράφειν ὑμῖν" αὐτοὶ γὰῤ ὑμεῖς θεοδίδακτοί “ἐστε εἰς «ὸ ἀγαπᾶν ἀλλήλου:. Καὶ γὰρ ποιεῖτε αὐτὸ εἰς πάντας τοὺς ν᾽ ἀδελφοὺς, καὶ «οὺς ἐν δ) τῇ Μακεδονί. » Φιλαξελφίαν ἐνταῦθα τὴν τῶν χρημάτων φιλοτιμίαν ἀχάλεσς, περὶ ἧς ἔφη μὴ χρήζειν αὐτοὺς παραινέπεω;" ἐκ θείας γὰρ αὐτοῖς προσγεγενῆσθαι « Παρακαλοῦμεν δὲ ὑμᾶς, ἀδεχφοὶ, περίσσεύειν μᾶλλον, {ι1᾽.) καὶ φιλοτιρεῖσθαι ἡσυχάζειν, καὶ πράττειν τὰ ἴδια, καὶ ἐργάζεσθαι “αἷς ἰδίαις χαρτὶν ὁμῶν, καθὼς καὶ παῤηγγείλαμεν ὑμῖν, ἕνα περιπᾶ- «ἣτε εὐτχημόνω; πρὸ; τοὺς ἔξω, καὶ μηδενὸς χρείαν ἔχητε. » Θὐκ ἕνα τίκ τοῖ; προῤῥηθεῖσιν ἐπαίνοις ἡ παραίνεσις. Συνέβαινε γὰρ, τοὺς μὲν φιλοτίμως χορηγεῖν τοῖς δεομένοις τὴν χρείαν, τοὺς δὲ διὰ τὴν «ούτων τιλοτιμίαν ἀμελεῖν τῆς ἐργασίας. Εἰκότως τοίνυν κἀκείνον; ἐπένεσε, καὶ τούτοις τὰ πρόσφορα σίαν' ἐκάλεσεν. Οἱ γὰρ δυνάμενοι καὶ δέκα τῇ; ἐργὰας τρέγεσθαι διὰ τὴν τῶν ὁμοπέστων φιλαδελφίαν, εἶτα. δίγα πόνων οὐκ ἀνεχόμενοι ζῇν, ἀλλ᾽ ἐκ τῶν χειρῶν τὸν βίον ποιούμενοι, οζόν τινα φιλοτιμίαν τὴν εαταγὼν, καὶ μηδενὸς χρείων ἔχητε. ᾿Ασχημοούνη τὰρ, φησὶ, τὸ ἐν ἀργίᾳ; ζῇν, τὸ μὴ ἐξ ἐργασίας τὰν χρείαν πορίζεοθαι, ἀλλὰ προσαίτου "βίου αἱρεῖσθαι, καὶ τὴν ἄλλων κροτμένειν φιχοφιμίαν, Ἐντεῦθεν τὴν περὶ τῆς ἀνατοάσεως διδιχσχαλίαν προσφέρει, τοὺς 13. «ε Οὐ θέλομεν 5 δὲ ὑμᾶ; ἀγνοεῖν, ἀδελφοὶ, περὶ τῶν κεκοιμημένων, ἵνα μὴ λυπῆσθε, καθὼς δ) καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ οἱ μὴ ἔχοντες ἐλπίδα. » Οὐ παντελῶς χιωωλύει τὴν λύπην, ἀλλὰ τὴν ἀμετρίαν ἐκβάλλει, καὶ τῇ τῆς ἀναστάσεως ἐλπίδι ψυχαγωγεΐξ. Οἱ γὰρ ταύ- ΤΥ» οὐκ ἔχοντες ἔχουσι τῆς ἀμέτρου λύπης ἀπολογίαν. Διὰ τοῦτο οὐδὲ περὶ τῶν τεθνεώτων ἔφη, ἀλλὰ περὶ τῶν» κεκοιμημένων, καὶ δι αὐτοῦ τοῦ ὀνόματος τὴν παραμυθίαν πραγματευόμενος. Εἶτα ἀφ' ἧς κατεδέξαντο περὶ τοῦ Δεσπότου Χριστοῦ διδασκαλίας προσφέρει τῆς ἀναστάσεως τὴν ἀπόδειξιν.
ē΄. « Toigaroun ho athetōn, ouk anthrōpon athetei, alla eun Theon, ton kai n᾽ dynta to Pneuma hautou to hagion eis hēmas. » Eis auton toinyn hē adikia chōrei ton tōn holōn Theon. Autos gar hēmin kai tou pan- Pneumatos tēn charin dedōrētai. Houtō tēn tēs siyphrosynēs didaskalian peranas, eis heteron eidos paraineseōs metabainei. mi hy. «Peri hox tēs philadelphias ou chreian echete Hyraphein hymin" autoi gar hymeis theodidaktoi “este eis «o agapan allēlou:. Kai gar poieite auto eis pantas tous n᾽ adelphous, kai «ous en d) tę̄ Makedoni. » Philaxelphian entautha tēn tōn chrēmatōn philotimian achaless, peri hēs ephē mē chrēzein autous parainepeō?" ek theias gar autois prosgegenēsthai « Parakaloumen de hymas, adechphoi, perisseuein mallon, {i1᾽.) kai philotireisthai hēsychazein, kai prattein ta idia, kai ergazesthai “hais idiais chartin homōn, kathōs kai parēngeilamen hymin, hena peripa- «hēte eutchēmonō? pro? tous exō, kai mēdenos chreian echēte. » Thyk hena tik toi? prorrhētheisin epainois hē parainesis. Synebaine gar, tous men philotimōs chorēgein tois deomenois tēn chreian, tous de dia tēn «outōn tilotimian amelein tēs ergasias. Eikotōs toinyn kakeinon? epenese, kai toutois ta prosphora sian' ekalesen. Hoi gar dynamenoi kai deka tę̄? ergaas tregesthai dia tēn tōn homopestōn philadelphian, eita. diga ponōn ouk anechomenoi zę̄n, all᾽ ek tōn cheirōn ton bion poioumenoi, ozon tina philotimian tēn eatagōn, kai mēdenos chreiōn echēte. ᾿Aschēmoounē tar, phēsi, to en argią? zę̄n, to mē ex ergasias tan chreian porizeothai, alla prosaitou "biou haireisthai, kai tēn allōn krotmenein phichophimian, Enteuthen tēn peri tēs anatoaseōs didichschalian prospherei, tous 13. «e Ou thelomen 5 de hyma? agnoein, adelphoi, peri tōn kekoimēmenōn, hina mē lypēsthe, kathōs d) kai hoi loipoi hoi mē echontes elpida. » Ou pantelōs chiōōlyei tēn lypēn, alla tēn ametrian ekballei, kai tę̄ tēs anastaseōs elpidi psychagōgeïx. Hoi gar tau- TY» ouk echontes echousi tēs ametrou lypēs apologian. Dia touto oude peri tōn tethneōtōn ephē, alla peri tōn» kekoimēmenōn, kai di autou tou onomatos tēn paramythian pragmateuomenos. Eita aph' hēs katedexanto peri tou Despotou Christou didaskalias prospherei tēs anastaseōs tēn apodeixin.
“Therefore whoever rejects this rejects not man but God, who also gives his Holy Spirit to us.” The wrong, then, reaches the God of all himself. For it is he who has given us the grace of the all-[holy] Spirit. Having thus completed the teaching about chastity, he passes to another kind of exhortation. “Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for us to write to you; for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another. And indeed you do this toward all the brothers in all Macedonia.” Here he called generosity with money “brotherly love,” and said that they had no need of exhortation about it, for it had come to them from divine [teaching]. “But we exhort you, brothers, to abound more, and to make it your ambition to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, so that you may walk properly toward those outside and have need of nothing.” This exhortation is not contrary to the praises spoken before. For it happened that some generously supplied the needs of those in want, while others, because of their generosity, neglected work. Fittingly, then, he praised the former, and offered the latter what suited them … he called. For those who were able to support themselves by work but, because of the brotherly love of their fellow believers, … then, not bearing to live without toil, but making their living from their own hands, … “and have need of nothing.” For it is improper, he says, to live in idleness, not to provide for one’s needs by work, but to choose a beggar’s life and wait upon the generosity of others.
From here he offers the teaching about the resurrection: “But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that you may not grieve as the rest do who have no hope.” He does not altogether forbid grief, but casts out its excess, and comforts them with the hope of the resurrection. For those who do not have this hope have a defense for immoderate grief. For this reason he did not say “concerning the dead,” but “concerning those who have fallen asleep,” providing comfort through the very name. Then from the teaching they had received about Christ the Master he offers the proof of the resurrection.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
1 Thess 4:8–13 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Theodoret explains that rejecting Paul's teaching on chastity wrongs God, that brotherly love means generosity which must not breed idleness, and that grief for the dead is tempered by the hope of resurrection.
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Notes on the original text
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Topics: Ethics, Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. 1 Thess. 3.8 (PG 82; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-1-thessalonicenses/3-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude (Opus) from the Greek as printed in Migne PG 82 (archive.org OCR); no public-domain English exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.
3.13PG 82
ιγ΄. « ΕἸ γὰρ πιστεύομεν ὅτι Ἰησοῦς ἀπέλαν: καὶ ἀνέστη" οὕτω καὶ ὁ Θεὸς τοὺς 3" κοιμηθέντας διὰ τοῦ Ἰησοῦ ἄξει σὺν αὑτῷ. » Εἰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἡ ἀνάστασις πίστεως ἡμῖν ἀξία εἶναι δοκεῖ, πιστεύσωμεν ὅτι καὶ ἡμεῖς τευξόμεθα τῆς ἀναστάσεως. Δι᾽ ἡμᾶς γὰρ τὸ τῆς ἐνανθρωπήσεως ᾧκονομήθη δοφῶς δὲ λίαν ὁ θεῖος ᾿Απόστολος τὸν μὲν Κύριον Ἰησοῦν τεθνάναι ἔφη, διὰ τοὺς ἀρνουμένους τῆς σαρκὸς τὴν ἀνάληψιν, φαντασίᾳ δὲ οἰομένους καὶ ὀφθῆναι αὐτὸν καὶ παθεῖν. Τοὺς δὲ ἀποθνήσκοντας Β κοιμωμένους ἐκάλεσε, καὶ τῷ ὀνόματι τοὺς ἀθυἕπεται. ιδ΄, ε Τοῦτο γὰρ ὑμῖν λέγομεν ἐν λόγῳ Κυρίου. ν Οὐ γὰρ οἰκείοις χρώμεθα λογισμοῖς, ἀλλ᾽ ἐκ θείας ἡμῖν ἀποκαλύψεως ἡ διδασκαλία γεγένηται. Τίς αὕτη, « Ὅτι ἡμεῖς οἱ ζῶντες, οἱ περιλειπόμενοι εἰς τὴν παρουσίαν ᾽ τοῦ Κυρίου, οὐ μὴ φθάσομεν τοὺς: κοιμηθέντας. } υὗτω, φησὶν, ὀξέως καὶ ταχέως, καὶ ἐν ἀκαρεῖ, οἱ τετελευτηκότες ἅπαντες ἀναστήσονται! ὡς τοὺς ἔτι κατ᾽ ἐκεῖνον τὸν χαιρὺν πὧν ὅλων. Τὸ γὰρ ἡμεῖς οἱ ζῶντες, οὐκ ἐπὶ τοῦ ἑαυτοῦ προσώπου τέθεικεν, ἀλλ᾽ ἐπὶ τῶν κατ᾽ ἐκεῖνὸν τὸν χαιρὸ» περιόντων ἀνθρώπων. Πιστοῦται τῷ γὰρ ὕπνῳ ἐγρήγορσις Ο ἃ τὸ τοῦ εἰρημένου παράδοξον τῇ δυνάμει τοῦ ἐνιε΄, «Ὅτι αὐτὸς ὁ Κύριος ἐν κελεύσματι, ὲ φωνῇ ἀρχαγγέλου, καὶ σάλπιγγι " Θεοῦ καταβήσεται ἀπ᾽ οὐρανοῦ, » Αὐτὸς γὰρ πρῶτος τῶν ὅλων ὁ Κύριὸς ἐκ τῶν οὐρανῶν ἐπιφανήσεται κατιὼν, τῶν ἀοράτων ἡγουμένων δυνάμεων, καὶ κελεύσει μὲν ἀρχάγγελον βοῆσαι, καὶ τοὺς νεκροὺς ἀναοτῆσαι. Σάλπιγγες δὲ πανταχόθεν ἢχήσουσε μέγα τι καὶ ἐξαίσιον, Τοῦτο δὲ καὶ ἐν τῇ πρὸς Κορινθίους ἔφτ, ε Πάντες μὲν οὐ κοιμηθησόμεθα, πάντες δὲ ἀλλαγησόμεθα, ἐν ἀτόμῳ, ἐν ῥιπῇ ὀφθαλμοῦ, ἐν τῇ ἐσχάτῃ σάλπιγγι. Σαλπίσει γὰρ, καὶ οἱ νεκροὶ ἐγερθήσονται ἄφθαρτοι, καὶ ἡμεῖς ἀλλαγησόμεθα. » Εἰ δὲ ἐν τῷ ρ Σινᾷ ὄρει συμμέτρου τοῖς τότε παροῦσι γεγενημέντ,; ἡχῆς, οὐκ ἤνεγκεν ὁ λαὸς τὴν τοῦ δέους ὑπερβολὴν, ἀλλὰ πρὸς τὸν μέγαν ἔφη Μωυσέα" εΛάλει πρὸς ἡμᾶς σὺ, καὶ μὴ λαλείτω ὁ Θεὸς πρὸς ἡμᾶς, ἵνα μὴ ἀποθάνωμεν" » τίς. οἴσει τὴν ἐνεχθησομένην τότε φωνήν; Τὸ δὲ, ἐν χεεύσματι, ἐν φωνῇ ἀρχαγγέζου, λων παραχελεύσεται τοῖς νεκροῖς ἀναττῆναι" οἱ δὲ παραυτίκα ἀνίστανται, καὶ μετὰ τοσαύτης ὀξύτητος, ὡς προφθάσαι τοὺς ἔτι περιόντας. Τοιοῦτό τι καὶ ἐν τοῖς θείοις Εὐαγγελίοις ἐπὶ τῆς παραβολῆς τῶν παρθένων εἴρηται " « Μέσης δὲ νυκτὸς χρανγὴ γέγονεν" Ἰδοὺ ὁ νυμφίος ἔρχεται, ἐξέρχεαθε εἰς ἀπάντησιν αὐτοῦ. » --- « Καὶ οἱ νεκροὶ ἐν Χριστῷ ἐγερθήσονται πρῶτον. ν Νεκροὺς τοὺς πιστοὺς λέγει, οὐ μόνον "ἢ τοὺς τῷ Εὐαγγελίῳ πεπιστευκότας, ἀλλὰ «αὶ τοὺς ἐν νόμῳ, καὶ τοὺς πρὸ νόμου διαλάμψαντας. Τοῦτο γὰρ καὶ ἐν τῇ πρὸς Ἑδραίους ἔφη" « αὶ οὗτοι πάντες μαρτυρηθέντες διὰ τῆς πίστεως οὐκ ἐκομίσαντο τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν, τοῦ Θεοῦ περὶ ἐμῶν κρεῖττόν τι προδλεψαμένον, ἵνα μὴ χωρὶς ἡμῶν τελειωθῶσιν. » ἽΛπαντες τοίνυν οἱ εὐσεβείᾳ … Τοῦτο γὰρ καὶ ἐν τῇ πρὸς Κορινθίους ἐδίδαξεν « ᾿Απαρχὴ γὰρ Χριστὸς, ἔπειτα οἱ τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐν τῇ παρουσίᾳ αὐτοῦ ᾿ εἶτα τὸ τέλος. »
ig΄. « EI gar pisteuomen hoti Iēsous apelan: kai anestē" houtō kai ho Theos tous 3" koimēthentas dia tou Iēsou axei syn hautǭ. » Ei tou Christou hē anastasis pisteōs hēmin axia einai dokei, pisteusōmen hoti kai hēmeis teuxometha tēs anastaseōs. Di᾽ hēmas gar to tēs enanthrōpēseōs hǭkonomēthē dophōs de lian ho theios ᾿Apostolos ton men Kyrion Iēsoun tethnanai ephē, dia tous arnoumenous tēs sarkos tēn analēpsin, phantasią de oiomenous kai ophthēnai auton kai pathein. Tous de apothnēskontas B koimōmenous ekalese, kai tǭ onomati tous athyepetai. id΄, e Touto gar hymin legomen en logǭ Kyriou. n Ou gar oikeiois chrōmetha logismois, all᾽ ek theias hēmin apokalypseōs hē didaskalia gegenētai. Tis hautē, « Hoti hēmeis hoi zōntes, hoi perileipomenoi eis tēn parousian ᾽ tou Kyriou, ou mē phthasomen tous: koimēthentas. } hyytō, phēsin, oxeōs kai tacheōs, kai en akarei, hoi teteleutēkotes hapantes anastēsontai! hōs tous eti kat᾽ ekeinon ton chairyn pōn holōn. To gar hēmeis hoi zōntes, ouk epi tou heautou prosōpou tetheiken, all᾽ epi tōn kat᾽ ekeinon ton chairo» periontōn anthrōpōn. Pistoutai tǭ gar hypnǭ egrēgorsis O ha to tou eirēmenou paradoxon tę̄ dynamei tou enie΄, «Hoti autos ho Kyrios en keleusmati, e phōnę̄ archangelou, kai salpingi " Theou katabēsetai ap᾽ ouranou, » Autos gar prōtos tōn holōn ho Kyrios ek tōn ouranōn epiphanēsetai katiōn, tōn aoratōn hēgoumenōn dynameōn, kai keleusei men archangelon boēsai, kai tous nekrous anaotēsai. Salpinges de pantachothen ēchēsouse mega ti kai exaision, Touto de kai en tę̄ pros Korinthious epht, e Pantes men ou koimēthēsometha, pantes de allagēsometha, en atomǭ, en rhipę̄ ophthalmou, en tę̄ eschatę̄ salpingi. Salpisei gar, kai hoi nekroi egerthēsontai aphthartoi, kai hēmeis allagēsometha. » Ei de en tǭ r Siną orei symmetrou tois tote parousi gegenēment,? hēchēs, ouk ēnenken ho laos tēn tou deous hyperbolēn, alla pros ton megan ephē Mōysea" eLalei pros hēmas sy, kai mē laleitō ho Theos pros hēmas, hina mē apothanōmen" » tis. oisei tēn enechthēsomenēn tote phōnēn? To de, en cheeusmati, en phōnę̄ archangezou, lōn paracheleusetai tois nekrois anattēnai" hoi de parautika anistantai, kai meta tosautēs oxytētos, hōs prophthasai tous eti periontas. Toiouto ti kai en tois theiois Euangeliois epi tēs parabolēs tōn parthenōn eirētai " « Mesēs de nyktos chrangē gegonen" Idou ho nymphios erchetai, exercheathe eis apantēsin autou. » --- « Kai hoi nekroi en Christǭ egerthēsontai prōton. n Nekrous tous pistous legei, ou monon "ē tous tǭ Euangeliǭ pepisteukotas, alla «ai tous en nomǭ, kai tous pro nomou dialampsantas. Touto gar kai en tę̄ pros Hedraious ephē" « ai houtoi pantes martyrēthentes dia tēs pisteōs ouk ekomisanto tēn epangelian, tou Theou peri emōn kreitton ti prodlepsamenon, hina mē chōris hēmōn teleiōthōsin. » HiLpantes toinyn hoi eusebeią … Touto gar kai en tę̄ pros Korinthious edidaxen « ᾿Aparchē gar Christos, epeita hoi tou Christou en tę̄ parousią autou ᾿ eita to telos. »
“For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.” If Christ’s resurrection seems to us worthy of belief, let us believe that we too shall attain the resurrection. For it was for our sake that the economy of the incarnation was carried out. Very wisely the divine Apostle said that the Lord Jesus died, because of those who deny the assumption of the flesh and think that he was seen and suffered only in appearance. But those who die he called “those who have fallen asleep,” and by the name [comforted] the disheartened … follows.
“For this we say to you by the word of the Lord.” For we do not use our own reasonings; the teaching has come to us from divine revelation. What is it? “That we who are alive, who remain until the coming of the Lord, shall by no means precede those who have fallen asleep.” So sharply, he says, and quickly, and in an instant, will all who have died rise, that they will [precede] those still [alive] at that time … of all. For he put “we who are alive” not of his own person, but of the people living at that time. … for awakening [follows] sleep … the marvel of what was said by the power of the …
“For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God.” For the Lord himself will appear first of all, coming down from the heavens, with the invisible powers going before him, and he will command an archangel to cry out and the dead to rise. And trumpets will sound from every side something great and extraordinary. He said this also in the letter to the Corinthians: “We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.” And if at Mount Sinai, when there was a sound proportioned to those then present, the people could not bear the excess of fear, but said to the great Moses, “You speak to us, and let not God speak to us, lest we die,” who will bear the voice that will be uttered then? “With a command, with the voice of an archangel” [means that he] … will command the dead to rise; and they rise at once, and with such speed as to get ahead of those still living. Something of this kind is said also in the divine Gospels in the parable of the virgins: “At midnight there was a cry: Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him.”
“And the dead in Christ will rise first.” By “the dead” he means the faithful, not only those who believed the gospel, but also those who shone under the law and before the law. For he said this also in the letter to the Hebrews: “And all these, though commended through faith, did not receive the promise, since God had foreseen something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.” All, then, who in piety … He taught this also in the letter to the Corinthians: “Christ the firstfruits, then those who are Christ’s at his coming, then the end.”
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
1 Thess 4:14–16 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 15:51–52 (quotation, high confidence) · Exod 20:19 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 25:6 (quotation, high confidence) · Heb 11:39–40 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 15:23–24 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Theodoret explains the resurrection of those who sleep in Jesus, the descent of the Lord with the archangel's voice and the trumpet, and that the dead in Christ include the righteous before the gospel.
- The ref holds the lemmas 1 Thess 4:14, 4:15a, 4:15b, 4:16a, and 4:16b, not 3:13. Theodoret notes that Paul says Jesus “died” against those who held that Christ suffered only in appearance (docetists). Words are lost in the scan in several places (marked …). Quotations: 1 Cor 15:51–52, 23–24; Exod 20:19; Matt 25:6; Heb 11:39–40. Latin of Migne’s parallel column and footnotes, read as Greek letters, were removed; other slips are translated by sense.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Latin of Migne's parallel column inside the quotation; OCR slip; Latin of Migne's parallel column, read as Greek letters; Greek lost in the scan here; OCR slip (letters misread: χ for κ, δ/θ for β, ! or : for ι); apparatus notes and Latin of Migne's parallel column, read as Greek letters; marginal letter): οἱ ὃὲ 3: ὁ Θεὸς καὶ τούς. Νοβίογὶ ἴῃ Κσαπὶδί., ἀϊαίος. ὅ, ρ 14} 5ῖγην. Οὕτως ὁ Θεὸς καὶ, κ΄ τ᾿ Δ. Παῖεῖ, [ἀ}- 33 ἐν τῇ παρουσίᾳ τοῦ Κα, ο5ι Π᾿ωτοῖ. [ε. Ἵν ο. Ἢ αὐτὸς Ομ βθη}} ἃ ΠΟΡΙΤΟ Δ] Όδη. γι, (δ, → οἱ δὲ ; ὀξύτητος, Α ὡς → ὀξύτητος, ὡς; γὸιὲ εἷο εἰ οἴιπὶ [608 Δ) ᾿αυἃ ἢ) εἰ 8 διὶ ται. → …; Β Οοτγίηιμΐθ5 : « ΡΥ πη ε ᾿Ακαρχὴ → « ᾿Απαρχὴ; Πιστοῦτα: → Πιστοῦται; καταδήσεται → καταβήσεται; παραδολῆς → παραβολῆς; χρεῖττόν → κρεῖττόν; εὐσεθείᾳ → εὐσεβείᾳ.
Topics: Eschatology, Christology
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. 1 Thess. 3.13 (PG 82; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-1-thessalonicenses/3-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude (Opus) from the Greek as printed in Migne PG 82 (archive.org OCR); no public-domain English exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.