1 Thessalonians 2:7
Douay-Rheims
Whereas we might have been burdensome to you, as the apostles of Christ: but we became little ones in the midst of you, as if a nurse should cherish her children:
Francis Patrick Kenrick
The apostle employs two distinct images, the first that of children without pretensions, to show that he abstained from a display of high power ; the other that of a parent or nurse, who suckles her infant, -as he had spiritually nourished the faithful.
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1863 · 1 Thessalonians 2:7
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