John Chrysostom : "And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works." He knew that this also arises from "gathering together." For as "iron sharpeneth iron," so also association increases love. For if a stone rubbed against a stone sends forth fire, how much more soul mingled with soul! But not unto emulation (he says) but "unto the sharpening of love." What is "unto the sharpening of love"? Unto the loving and being loved more. "And of good works"; that so they might acquire zeal. For if doing has greater force for instruction than speaking, ye also have in your number many teachers, who effect this by their deeds. "But let us consider one another to provoke unto love." What is, "let us consider one another"? For instance if any be virtuous, let us imitate him, let us look on him so as to love and to be loved. For from Love good works proceed. For the assembling is a great good: since it makes love more warm; and out of love all good things arise. For nothing is good which is not done through love. — Homily on Hebrews 19 Oecumenius : "And let us consider one another," he says, for we are brothers, as there is one flock under one shepherd. For this will increase the love among us. — The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews Oecumenius : But let us consider around these things, whose curiosity and inquiry and consideration sharpen and incite love: this, however, is done by those who bear nothing wrong about each other, but reject everything in a good and healthier direction, even those things that seem to be faults. — The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews Oecumenius : "to provoke unto love." To stir up and increase love for one another. "and good works." And to provoke each other to zeal in good works. "not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together." For to always come together in the same place is a source of love. Therefore, it prohibits separation. For the work of love is not division, but the exact union. He called the assembly the harmony. — The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews Oecumenius : "but encouraging one another." Whom? The assembly of ourselves, that is, each other. For we must receive the assembly of ourselves in common. And the encouragement of the assembly is the willingness to be joined together for a long time. — The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews Oecumenius : In another way. "but encouraging." To the weaker ones, obviously. And so much, he says, we ought to be more in need of love and good works, as the day of judgment draws nearer. This was also a comfort for them, having been tested by temptations. — The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews Photios I of Constantinople : "Let us stir up one another," concerning those things whose meddlesomeness and inquiry and observation sharpen us in love and edification. And they do this who do not permit any fault concerning one another but receive everything (even whatever things seem to be worse) for the good and the better. — FRAGMENTS ON THE EPISTLE TO THE Hebrews 10.24 Tertullian : There is, too, that will of God which the Lord accomplished in preaching, in working, in enduring: for if He Himself proclaimed that He did not His own, but the Father's will, without doubt those things which He used to do were the Father's will; unto which things, as unto exemplars, we are now provoked; to preach, to work, to endure even unto death. — On Prayer