Increasing Joy

Vos autem Dominus multipilcet, et abundare faciat charitate in invicem in vos, et in omnes, sicut et nos in vos ad confirmanda corda vestra irreprehensa in sanctimonia coram Deo et Patre nostro in adventu Domini nostri Jesu Christi cum omnibus sanctis suis. Ut gaudium suum, quo de eis gaudet, cumulet, omnibus bonis multiplicari illos exoptat; ut veniens ad eos, plus inveniat in eis, quod laude dignum sit, quam a Timotheo audierat; ut irreprehensibiles inveniantur cum sanctis in charitate Dei Patris, et in adventu Domini nostri Jesu Christi, cum coeperit ante tribunal ejus examinatio singulos approbare. Deum vocat propter terrorem majestatis ejus: Patrem vero propter benignitatem, qua dignatur credentes sibi adoptare in filios, quod in adventu Domini manifestabitur. Ambrosiaster, Commentaria in Epistolam Ad Thessalonicenses Primam Caput III Source: Migne PL 17.448b-c

'May the Lord multiply you and make you abound in love for one another and for all, as even we to you, for the strengthening of your hearts to flawlessness in holiness before God and our Father in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.' 1  That his joy in which he rejoices in them be increased he wishes that they be multiplied in every good, that coming to them, he find more in them which is worthy of praise than he had heard from Timothy, by which they will be found flawless with the saints in the love of God the Father and in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, when he begins to examine them before His tribunal. He says 'God' on account of the magnificence of His majesty, but 'Father' on account of His benevolence, by which the faithful are worthy to be adopted as sons, which shall be manifest in the coming of the Lord. Ambrosiaster, Commentary On Saint Paul's First Epistle to the Thessalonians, Chapter 3 1 1 Thes 3.12