ACC ~ 2 Timothy 4 v10a

TO CONFIRM US. CHRYSOSTOM: Demas, having loved his own ease and security away from danger, has chosen rather to live luxuriously at home, rather than suffer hardships with Paul and share his present dangers. Paul has indeed blamed him, but only in order to confirm us, that we may not sink to self-indulgent weakness in declining toils and dangers, for this would amount to “having loved this present world.” HOMILIES ON 2 TIMOTHY 10.

THE FUTURE WORLD OUR HOPE. POLYCARP: Now I exhort all of you to be obedient to the word of righteousness and to exercise all patient endurance, such as you have seen with your very eyes, not only in the blessed Ignatius and Zosimus and Rufus but also in others who were of your membership, and in Paul himself and the rest of the apostles; being persuaded that all these “did not run in vain” but in faith and righteousness, and that they are now in their deserved place with the Lord, in whose suffering they also shared. For they “loved not this present world” but him who died on our behalf and was raised by God for our sakes. LETTER OF POLYCARP 8.

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