Theophylact of Ohrid, on 1Thess 2:15

“Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and are adversaries to all men;”

“And what is surprising in that they mistreated their own countrymen, when they even killed the Lord? See what a consolation it is to be a partaker with Christ in sufferings! Therefore Paul also always points this out in trials. But someone will say that they did not recognize the Lord. So what? Did they not recognize their own prophets, whose books they carry everywhere? How then did they kill them too? From this it is evident that they do nothing as zealots for the truth, but rather rage against the truth. The apostles, your teachers. Therefore you, as disciples, ought to endure all things, having these examples before your eyes. For how could they please Him whose Son they killed, and before that had also killed the prophets?”

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