Theophylact of Ohrid, on 1Thess 3:5

“For this cause also, I, forbearing no longer, sent to know your faith: lest perhaps he that tempteth should have tempted you, and our labour should be made vain.”

“O Paul! If you predicted to them that you would endure affliction, and that they should not be troubled by this affliction, then why do you send again? It turns out that you do not yet fully trust them. Out of great love, he says, I do this. For those who love are anxious even about what is safe. At the same time, the temptations were many, and the excessive multitude of calamities frightened me. Therefore he did not say: having noticed something in you, I sent, but "being unable to bear it any longer," which comes from love.”

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