Theophylact of Ohrid, on 1Thess 2:4

“But as we were approved by God that the gospel should be committed to us: even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who proveth our hearts.”

“God, he says, deemed us worthy and chose us to entrust to us the Gospel: He would not have chosen us if He had not recognized us as worthy. Therefore we also remain as worthy as we were chosen by Him to be for so great a preaching. That is, we do all this not in order to please you, but desiring to please God, Who tests the secrets (for this is what δοκιμάζειν now means), or because He comprehends the hearts and gives crowns. No deceiver, cunning, or impious person can please Him.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.