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2 Thessalonians 1:4
so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure;
so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure;
Verse 4. _WE OURSELVES GLORY IN YOU IN THE CHURCHES OF GOD_] We hold you up as an example of what the grace of God, can produce when communicated to honest and faithful hearts. _FOR YOUR PATIENCE AN...
SO THAT WE OURSELVES GLORY IN YOU IN THE CHURCHES OF GOD - That is, we mention your example to other churches, and glory in it, as an evidence of what the gospel is suited to do; see the notes on 1 Th...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE REVELATION OF THE LORD JESUS FROM HEAVEN CHAPTER 1 _ 1. Salutation and thanksgiving (2 Thessalonians 1:1)_ 2. The revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven (2 Thessa...
Introductory. Thanksgiving for the past and prayer for the future. Paul thanks God for the growing love of the Thessalonian Christians and their loyalty under persecution, and prays that they may be c...
Paul and Silas and Timothy send this letter to the Church of the Thessalonians which is in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Brothers, we ought always to thank God for you, as it is fitting, b...
LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS (2 Thessalonians 1:1-10)...
GLORY. Greek. _kauchaomai._ See Romans 2:17. The texts read _enkauchaomai._ Nowhere else in N.T. FOR. App-104. TRIBULATIONS. Greek. _thlipsis._ See Acts 7:10....
_so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God_ The triumph of the Gospel at Thessalonica had given peculiar gratification of the Apostle (1 Thessalonians 1:8; 1Th 3:7-9; 1 Thessalonians 2:...
ΑΥΤΟΥΣ ΗΜΑΣ (in this order), אBP 17 73 syrhcl; ημας αυτους, in ADGKL &c.—a Western emendation, followed by the Syrians. ΕΝΚΑΥΧΑΣΘΑΙ, in אABP 17 Chr Euthal (P 17 adopt the classical spelling εγ-). καυ...
§ 1. 2 Thessalonians 1:1-4. SALUTATION AND THANKSGIVING...
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DISCOURSE: 2210 THE STATE OF THE THESSALONIAN CHURCH 2 Thessalonians 1:3. We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charit...
SO THAT WE OURSELVES GLORY— Compare 2 Thessalonians 1:11 with this verse, and you will find, that here is an instance of his commending them, according to his frequent way of writing, in order to enco...
TEXT (2 Thessalonians 1:4) 4 SO THAT WE OURSELVES GLORY IN YOU IN THE CHURCHES OF GOD FOR YOUR PATIENCE AND FAITH IN ALL YOUR PERSECUTIONS AND IN THE AFFLICTIONS WHICH YE ENDURE; Translation and Par...
So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure: GLORY IN YOU - `boast in your case.' Not merely do we...
While Silvanus and Timothy are associated with Paul in this salutation, the epistle is practically by Paul himself and its genuineness is attested at the close by Paul's own signature (2Th_3:17). THA...
SALUTATIONS. THE SECOND ADVENT 1-4. Greeting and thanksgiving for their constant faith and love and patience under persecution: cp. 1 Thessalonians 1:3. 5-C. 2 THESSALONIANS 2:17. The Coming of Chri...
THE *LORD HAS NOT COME YET 2 THE THESSALONIANS _IAN MACKERVOY_ ABOUT THE LETTER 1 THE WRITERS Like 1 Thessalonians, this letter is from Paul, Silas and Timothy. The writer of this letter used th...
SO THAT WE OURSELVES. — Why was it less likely that St. Paul and his companions should thus glory in them than other friends did, or perhaps than the Thessalonians themselves? Possibly, because it see...
CHAPTER 17 SALUTATION AND THANKSGIVING 2 Thessalonians 1:1 (R.V.) IN beginning to expound the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, it is necessary to say a few words by way of introduction to the bo...
The single article groups ὑπομονὴ and πίστις as a single conception = faith in its special aspect of patient endurance (_cf._ on Revelation 13:10), faithful tenacity of purpose. M. Gebhardt, in his _L...
The address (2 Thessalonians 1:1-2) is followed first by a thanksgiving (2 Thessalonians 1:3-10) which passes into a prophetic piece of consolation, and then by a brief prayer (2 T
FAITHFUL THROUGH FAITH IN A RIGHTEOUS GOD 2 Thessalonians 1:1 Notice the remarkable couplets of this chapter. Grace and peace, 2 Thessalonians 1:2; faith and love, 2 Thessalonians 1:3
Evidently, this letter was intended primarily to correct certain mistakes which the Thessalonians were making concerning the Second Advent. They were failing to distinguish between the two phases, the...
PAUL'S THANKFULNESS FOR THE CHURCH IN THESSALONICA Paul felt compelled to thank God because his prayer for the Thessalonians (1 Thessalonians 3:10-13) had been answered. Their faith had been lacking a...
(3) We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of everyone of you all toward each other aboundeth; (4) So that we o...
The second epistle takes up another difficulty. It was written in view of another abuse of the truth of the Lord's coming a danger that threatened the saints. As the first epistle was intended to guar...
4_So that we ourselves glory in you_. He could not have bestowed higher commendation upon them, than by saying that he sets them forward before other Churches as a pattern, for such is the meaning of...
In the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, the apostle corrects some errors into which these disciples had fallen with regard to the day of the Lord through certain false teachers; as in part of the...
SO THAT WE OURSELVES GLORY IN YOU,.... Or "of you"; for though they were the subject concerning which, yet not the object in which they gloried; the apostle elsewhere advises not to glory in men, but...
So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure: Ver. 4. _For your patience and faith_] Faith patienteth...
_We are bound to thank God_ It is highly observable that the apostle here wraps up his praise of men in praise to God, giving him the glory of the increase of grace which was manifest in the Thessalon...
(V. 1) Again, the same brotherly character of address is used as in the first epistle. The threatened dangers to the Thessalonians did not change this, except in the use of the more gentle expression...
Paul often begins his letters by expressing gratitude for the faith of those to whom the epistle is addressed. Their faith was growing exceedingly. They showed love for each other. 4. Paul rejoices i...
“SO THAT WE OURSELVES GLORY IN YOU IN THE CHURCHES OF GOD FOR YOUR PATIENCE AND FAITH IN ALL YOUR PERSECUTIONS AND IN THE AFFLICTIONS WHICH YE ENDURE” “So that”: “Therefore” (NASV). “So much is this...
1-4 Where there is the truth of grace, there will be an increase of it. The path of the just is as the shining light, which shines more and more unto the perfect day. And where there is the increase...
In the former verse the apostle gave thanks for them, in this he glories in them; he gave thanks for them to God, and glories in them before men. Wherein Silvanus and Timotheus are to be understood as...
so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure [The faith and love of the Thessalonians were such...
Tertullian Scorpiace -how he, (I say,) speaks in favour of martyrdoms, now to be chosen by himself also, when, rejoicing over the Thessalonians, he says, "So that we glory in you in the churches of G...
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‘So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God, for your patient endurance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure, a manifest token of the righteous judg...
2 Thessalonians 1:4. SO THAT WE OURSELVES. The growth of the Thessalonians was not a benefit which terminated with themselves; but the apostle also shared in the advantage which accrued from it. Their...
_Salutation Thanksgiving for the Faith of the Thessalonian Church under Persecution, Assurance of Compensation, and Prayer for the perfecting of their Faith._ Paul informs the Thessalonians of the emo...
SO THAT (ωστε). Another example of ωστε and the infinitive (ενκαυχασθα) for result as in 1 Thessalonians 1:7 which see.WE OURSELVES (αυτους ημας). Accusative of general reference with the infiniti...
2 Thessalonians 1:1 I. This Epistle opens with the mention of the same Apostolic group as does the first. Paul was not alone: Silvanus and Timotheus were still with him in closest fellowship of toil a...
2 Thessalonians 1:1. _Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians_ Paul loved to associate his fellow-workers with himself when writing to his brethren and sisters in Chri...
2 Thessalonians 1:1. _Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord J...
CONTENTS: Believer's comfort in persecution. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Silvanus, Timothy. CONCLUSION: The patient suffering of believers for Christ's sake, is a manifest token that they are wor...
2 Thessalonians 1:1. _Paul, and Silvanus,_ [the Roman name of Silas] _and Timotheus, to the church of the Thessalonians, in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ._ The inscription is the same as in...
WE MUST THANK GOD AT ALL TIMES FOR YOU. In 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13, Paul says he spoke to God _day and night_ about them. Here he shows that his prayers were answered. Paul's messenger had come back wi...
_So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith _ THE APOSTOLIC COMMENDATION I. The manner. 1. The person commending--“We ourselves.” In 1 Thessalonians 1:8 he...
2 THESSALONIANS 1:3 Thanksgiving and Comfort for the Persecuted Thessalonians. In Greek, vv. 2 Thessalonians 1:3 are one long sentence expressing Paul’s gratefulness and words of encouragement
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 2 Thessalonians 1:3. WE ARE BOUND TO THANK GOD.—We owe a debt of gratitude to God. It is not so much what is seemly that comes into prominence here, as what is due. EV...
EXPOSITION CONTENTS.—Paul, after the address and salutation, commences this Epistle by rendering thanks to God for the welcome intelligence he had received of the increase of the faith and love of his...
Paul had come to Thessalonica with the gospel of Jesus Christ from Philippi where, as the result of his preaching, he had been imprisoned, beaten and really ordered out of the city. There in Thessalon...
1 Thessalonians 1:3; 1 Thessalonians 2:14; 1 Thessalonians 2:19; 1 Thessalonians 3:2;...
Glory [ε ν κ α υ χ α σ θ α ι]. N. T. o. The simple verb kaucasqai to boast, and the kindred nouns kauchma ground of boasting, and kauchsiv act of boasting, are favorites with Paul....
Which ye endure — "That ye may be accounted worthy of the kingdom....