“Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel, and not in any way terrified by your adversaries, which is to them a proof of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that from God. For to you it has been granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake, having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear is in me.” -Philippians 1:27-30 . “He says well “terrified”, as that is what our enemies intend to do, to terrify us. He says that there is nothing to terrify us, whatever are their plans; That is the portion of those who walk upright, Their enemy can do nothing more than to try to terrify them. When they realize that, with all their planning, they cannot terrify you, they would count it as a proof of their perdition. When the persecutors could not overcome those they persecute; the planners could not overcome those against whom they plan; and those of authority could not overcome those under their authority; Is it not a proof enough that their perdition is close at hand? that their power is naught, and that what they did are vain and weak? … The apostle says that all this is from God.” -St. John Chrysostom . . . #Coptic #CopticOrthodox #Gospel #TheWordOfGod
“Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel, and not in any way terrified by your adversaries, which is to them a proof of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that from God. For to you it has been granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake, having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear is in me.”
-Philippians 1:27-30
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“He says well “terrified”, as that is what our enemies intend to do, to terrify us.
He says that there is nothing to terrify us, whatever are their plans; That is the portion of those who walk upright, Their enemy can
do nothing more than to try to terrify them.
When they realize that, with all their planning, they cannot terrify you, they
would count it as a proof of their perdition.
When the persecutors could not overcome those they persecute; the
planners could not overcome those against whom they plan;
and those of authority could not overcome those under their authority; Is it not
a proof enough that their perdition is close at hand?
that their power is naught, and that what they did are vain and weak? … The
apostle says that all this is from God.”
-St. John Chrysostom
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#Coptic #CopticOrthodox #Gospel #TheWordOfGod
