{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-1523","native_reference":{"book_number":590,"chapter_from":1,"chapter_to":1,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":2,"verse_to":2},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Ambrosiaster</b>: We give thanks to God always for all of you, making mention of you in our prayers, constantly remembering your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father:<br/>For all good things are from God, therefore they first give thanks to Him for their progress, who has deemed it worthy not only to give his gift to people under sin, but to adopt them as his children, at the same time assisting them in enduring all destruction, so that they may become more worthy. Therefore, they say that they remember these things in their speeches because they were increasing in the work of faith in the other churches, in order to complete the work that had been started by the will of God. They were eager in the pursuit of love, patience, and the hope of the coming of the Lord, which is before God, who deigned to incarnate his Son for the salvation of humanity. For it is pleasing to God if progress is made in Christ.<br/><i>— Commentary on 1 Thessalonians</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"Grace be unto you, and peace.\" Do you perceive that the very commencement of his Epistle is with encomiums? \"We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers.\" For to give thanks to God for them is the act of one testifying to their great advancement, when they are not only praised themselves, but God also is thanked for them, as Himself having done it all. He teaches them also to be moderate, all but saying, that it is all of the power of God. That he gives thanks for them, therefore, is on account of their good conduct, but that he remembers them in his prayers, proceeds from his love towards them.<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Thessalonians 1</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"a96f73fcb7cdbef50bf59be3cbc078196b0a1b2d37572b883ca11254cdeaa124","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":1523,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"1d19633874ea7db0614f5c209864072b95f69aacf67ee1b641fb57f4c8056aa5","translator":null,"work":null}