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Hebrews 12:3Heb.12.3

For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Considérez, en effet, celui qui a supporté contre sa personne une telle opposition de la part des pécheurs, afin que vous ne vous lassiez point, l'âme découragée.

KJV

For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    that by the prolonged suffering of hardships man be not wearied so as to lose courage, according to Heb. 12:3, "That you be not wearied, fainting in your minds." In this respect he mentions "perseverance," which accordingly he describes as "the fixed and continued persistence in…
  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    xample of patience by valiantly bearing up against human passibility and defects. Hence it is said ( Heb. 12:3 ) that He "endured such opposition from sinners against Himself, that you be not wearied. fainting in your minds." Reply to Objection 1: The penalties one suffers for an…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 181 (Migne)

    bus adversus semetipsum contradictionem, [Col. 0096D] ut ne fatigemini animis vestris deficientes (Hebr. XII, 3) .» Egressio enim Isaiae commemoratio Dominici Adventus est nobis. Jasub vero filius ejus derelictus quid significat nisi eos, de quibus dictum est: «Omnis qui relic…

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