To fill up — The measure of their sins always, as they have ever done. But the vengeance of God is come upon them — Hath overtaken them unawares, whilst they were seeking to destroy others, and will speedily complete their destruction.
1 THESSALONIANS 2:16 ovrgh, {A} Several witnesses, chiefly of the Western type of text (D F G _al_), add the clarification that “the wrath” is none other than “the wrath of God.” Other witnesses move...
Verse 16. 1 Thessalonians 2:15....
FORBIDDING US TO SPEAK TO THE GENTILES - see Acts 17:5, Acts 17:13. No particular instance is mentioned in the life of Paul previous to this, when they had formally commanded him not to preach to the...
II. TRUE SERVICE, AS MANIFESTED IN APOSTOLIC MINISTRY CHAPTER 2 _ 1. Apostolic conduct and service 1 Thessalonians 2:1)_ 2. Thanksgiving for the reception of the message and the opposition 1 Thess...
PAUL AND THE THESSALONIAN CHURCH. The next two paragraphs describe (_a)_ the effect of Paul's preaching at Thessalonica, (_b)_ his anxiety with regard to the fate of the Church under stress of persecu...
PAUL ON HIS DEFENSE (1 Thessalonians 2:1-12)...
And for this, too, we thank God, that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it, not as the word of men, but--as in truth it is--as the word of God, who also works in...
THAT. in order that. Greek. _hina_. TO, &C. = with. view to (App-104.) their filling up (Greek. _anapleroo)_. See 1 Corinthians 14:16. SINS. App-128. ALWAY. App-151. THE WRATH: the appointed wrath....
_forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved_ R. V., MAY BE SAVED. As much as to say: "These Jews, if they had their way, would prevent us speaking a single word to you about the G...
section iii Jewish Persecutors of the Church. Ch. 1 Thessalonians 2:13-16 This short paragraph is of peculiar interest. The Apostle was at the time exposed in his Gentile mission to the bitterest pe...
BD* alone have preserved ΕΦΘΑΚΕΝ—the less obvious, but intrinsically better reading; cf. Ephesians 1:20, ενηργηκεν (-σεν). DG latt vg Ambrst, with Western license, gloss ΟΡΓΗ by του θεου. 16. ΚΩΛΥΌΝΤ...
§ 4. 1 Thessalonians 2:13-16. Fellowship in Persecution with the Judæan Churches The rich fruits of the Gospel in the Thessalonian Church, for which the writers thank God (§ 2), led them to dwell, in...
ΚΩΛΥΌΝΤΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΚΩΛΎΩ (G2967) мешать, препятствовать, запрещать. _Praes._ может быть конативным, а также указывать на длительное действие: "они постоянно пытаются помешать" ΈΘΝΕΣΙΝ _...
FORBIDDING US TO SPEAK— Or, _hindering us from speaking._ Their _filling up_ the measure of their _sins,_ was by murdering our Lord Jesus Christ, and persecuting his disciples. This most grievous sin...
TEXT (1 Thessalonians 2:15-16) 15 WHO BOTH KILLED THE LORD JESUS AND THE PROPHETS, AND DROVE OUT US, AND PLEASE NOT GOD, AND ARE CONTRARY TO ALL MEN; 16 FORBIDDING US TO SPEAK TO THE GENTILES THAT TH...
Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost. FORBIDDING, [ kooluontoon (G2967)] - 'hindering us f...
7 What figure could more touchingly convey the apostle's genuine affection for the Thessalonians than that of a nursing mother? How unselfish and gentle and self-sacrificing is her care! The soul is...
THE NATURE OF ST. PAUL'S LIFE AND WORK AT THESSALONICA 2. The persecution at the Roman garrison-town of Philippi made a deep impression on St. Paul the Roman citizen (Acts 16:19; Philippians 1:30). I...
WHEN JESUS CHRIST COMES 1 THE THESSALONIANS _IAN MACKERVOY_ A word list is at the end. It explains words with a *star by them. CHAPTER 2 HOW PAUL AND HIS FRIENDS CAME TO THESSALONICA 2:1-4 V1...
FORBIDDING US TO SPEAK TO THE GENTILES. — The Apostle indicates the special way in which their contrariety showed itself. TO FILL UP. — Literally, _unto the filling up._ Not exactly their _intention_...
CHAPTER 6 IMPEACHMENT OF THE JEWS 1 Thessalonians 2:13 (R.V.) THESE verses complete the treatment of the subject with which this chapter opens. The Apostle has drawn a moving picture of his life and...
κωλυόντων κ. τ. λ., defining (Luke 11:52) from the Christian standpoint that general and familiar charge of hatred to the human race (ἐναντίων κ. τ. λ.) which was started by the exclusiveness of the g...
_Further thanksgiving for their endurance of trial_....
THE APOSTLE'S GLORY AND JOY 1 Thessalonians 2:13 The Christian worker always should wait on God till he gets the word of the message. There is an essential difference between delivering a sermon or a...
It is evident that some of the Jews in Thessalonica had been discounting the apostle in his absence. He very definitely defends himself against such detraction, asserting that his preaching had been w...
THE BRETHREN AND THE JEWS--TWO RESPONSES TO THE GOSPEL There were those unbelievers at Thessalonica who had not been receptive to the truth (Acts 17:11). This may have made Paul even more thankful for...
Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to (k) fill up their sins alway: for the (l) wrath is come upon them to the uttermost. (k) Until that wickedness of theirs which they...
To full up the measure of their sins, after which God's justice would punish them. (Witham) --- The Jews filled up the measure of their iniquities by the opposition they every where manifest to the re...
(13) В¶ For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God,...
There is a special interest in examining the epistles to the Thessalonians, more particularly the first, because, in point of fact, it was the earliest of the letters of the apostles; and as the first...
16_Who hinder us from speaking to the Gentiles_. It is not without good reason that, as has been observed, he enters so much into detail in exposing the malice of the Jews. (546) For as they furiously...
Having established these great principles, the apostle, with an open and overflowing heart, appeals to his whole walk among them as a proof of his having walked in the same spirit as in their own case...
FORBIDDING US TO SPEAK TO THE GENTILES, THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED,.... Speaking or preaching the Gospel is the ordinary means of saving souls, or of acquainting them with the way of salvation, the nece...
Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost. Ver. 16. _Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles_] Bale...
_For this cause_ Or, on this account also; _thank we God without ceasing_ See on 1 Thessalonians 1:2; that is, we not only thank him that we have been enabled to conduct ourselves, and to discharge ou...
TO SPEAK; proclaim the gospel. TO FILL UP THEIR SINS; unwilling to believe themselves, or to have the Gentiles believe, they filled up the cup of their iniquities and of God's vengeance. THE WRATH IS...
THE MANNER IN WHICH THE THESSALONIANS RECEIVED THE GOSPEL They accepted the Gospel and bore its burdens:...
FORBIDDING US TO SPEAK TO THE GENTILES THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED, TO FILL UP THEIR SINS ALWAY; FOR THE WRATH IS COME UPON THEM TO THE UTTERMOST. The apostle had just mentioned the fact that God had cal...
We are to consider now that which had great effect in producing the energetic, devoted response to the gospel such as we have seen in the Thessalonians. Certainly it is the Word of God itself that is...
C. The preaching was the Word of God, 2:13-16 13 FOR THIS CAUSE ALSO THANK WE GOD WITHOUT CEASING, BECAUSE, WHEN YE RECEIVED THE WORD OF GOD WHICH YE HEARD OF US, YE RECEIVED [IT] NOT [AS] THE WORD O...
“FORBIDDING US TO SPEAK TO THE GENTILES THAT THEY MAY BE SAVED; TO FILL UP THEIR SINS ALWAYS: BUT THE WRATH IS COME UPON THEM TO THE UTTERMOST” “Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be...
13-16 We should receive the word of God with affections suitable to its holiness, wisdom, truth, and goodness. The words of men are frail and perishing, like themselves, and sometimes false, foolish,...
FORBIDDING US TO SPEAK TO THE GENTILES THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED: their contrariety to all men is expressed particularly in this instance; they forbade the apostles to preach to the Gentiles, which wer...
forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always [Genesis 15:16; Matthew 23:32]: _but the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost_. [While narrating the cou...
1 Thessalonians 2:16 forbidding G2967 (G5723) us G2248 speak G2980 (G5658) Gentiles G1484 that G2443 saved...
‘For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus, for you also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews,...
_Paul appeals to their Endurance of the Persecution in proof of the Genuine efficacy of their Reception of the Word of God._ Paul again gives thanks for the reception which the Thessalonians had accor...
1 Thessalonians 2:16. HINDERING US FROM SPEAKING or, seeing that they hinder us; this clause specifying the chief instance in which the Jews incurred the displeasure of God and showed their narrow hat...
FORBIDDING US (κωλυοντων ημας). Explanatory participle of the idea in εναντιων. They show their hostility to Paul at every turn. Right here in Corinth, where Paul is when he writes, they had already...
SAVED (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16). _ SINS SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
1 Thessalonians 2:13 I. In this passage the Apostle states the evidence of the effectual working of the word in the Thessalonian converts. The change it had wrought in them was genuine, for it withsto...
CONTENTS: The model servant and his reward. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Satan. CONCLUSION: It is the great comfort of the servants of Christ to have their own conscience and the consciences of oth...
VERSE. 1-3. _Ye know our entrance into_ Thessalonica _our exhortation was not of deceit,_ or error to lead astray the simple, _nor of uncleanness, nor in guile,_ as is the character of the judaizing t...
THEY EVEN TRIED TO STOP US. The Christians at Thessalonica were mostly Gentiles. Nothing fanned the flames of hatred among this group of Jews, as did the preaching of the Good News to the Gentiles (Ac...
1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 2:16 WRATH HAS COME UPON THEM AT LAST. Paul may mean (1) the Judean famine in A.D. 44–47, (2) the riot and massacre in Jerusalem in 48–49, (3) the expulsion of...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Thessalonians 2:15. WHO BOTH KILLED.—The New Testament form of the verb is always compound—as we should say, “killed off.” A tragic contrast to what might have been...
EXPOSITION CONTENTS.—Paul turns from the reports of others to the experience of the readers. They themselves knew that his entrance was not powerless; although maltreated in Philippi, he was emboldene...
FOR yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain (1 Thessalonians 2:1): Now, Paul evidently had quite an entrance to the city of Thessalonica for he makes reference to...
1 Timothy 2:4; 2 Thessalonians 2:10; Acts 11:17; Acts 11:18; Acts 11:2
To speak - that they might be saved (lalhsai ina swqwsin). Not, to speak to the Gentiles in order that they might be saved, but to tell the Gentiles that they might be saved. Comp. 1 Corinthians 10:33...
THE HEART LIFE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL 1 Thessalonians 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The opening verse of this remarkable chapter brings reminiscences of Paul's entrance into Thessalonica. This should be stud...