Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Thessalonians 3:10
And perfect that which is wanting in your faith — So St. Paul did not know that "they who are once upon the rock no longer need to be taught by man."
And perfect that which is wanting in your faith — So St. Paul did not know that "they who are once upon the rock no longer need to be taught by man."
Verse 10. _NIGHT AND DAY PRAYING EXCEEDINGLY_] Supplicating God at _all times_; mingling this with all my prayers; υπερεκπερισσου δεομενοι, abounding and superabounding in my entreaties to God to perm...
NIGHT AND DAY - Constantly. PRAYING EXCEEDINGLY - Greek, abundantly; that is, there was much more than ordinary prayer. He made this a special subject of prayer; he urged it with earnestness, and wit...
III. AFFLICTIONS AND COMFORT CHAPTER 3 _ 1. Timotheus, Paul's messenger 1 Thessalonians 3:1)_ 2. His return with good tidings and the apostle's comfort and joy 1 Thessalonians 3:6) 3. This earnest...
THE MISSION OF TIMOTHY TO THESSALONICA. Paul's distress and anxiety with regard to the fate of the Church led him to send Timothy upon a mission of inquiry. He describes the effect produced upon him b...
So, when we could not stand it any longer, we made up our minds to be left all alone in Athens, and we sent Timothy our brother and God's servant in the good news of Christ, to strengthen you and enco...
THE PASTOR AND HIS FLOCK (1 Thessalonians 3:1-10)...
PRAYING. App-134. EXCEEDINGLY. Greek. _huper_ (App-104.) _ek_ (App-104.) _perissou._ Most of the texts read as one word. See Ephesians 3:20. THAT WE MIGHT. Literally for (App-104.) the seeing (App-1...
_night and day praying exceedingly_ In this last adverb, peculiar to St Paul, he strains language to express the ardour of his feeling: BEYOND MEASURE EXCEEDINGLY; it recurs in ch. 1 Thessalonians 5:1...
section iv St Paul's Present Relations to the Thessalonians. Ch. 1 Thessalonians 2:17 to 1 Thessalonians 3:13 The Apostle had been drawn aside in the last paragraph, by a sudden and characteristic b...
§ 6. 1 Thessalonians 3:6-13. The Good News brought by Timothy Timothy has just returned from Thessalonica; and his report is entirely reassuring (1 Thessalonians 3:6), so that it gives new life to Pau...
ΝΥΚΤῸΣ ΚΑῚ ἩΜΈΡΑΣ ὙΠΕΡΕΚΠΕΡΙΣΣΟΥ͂ ΔΕΌΜΕΝΟΙ ΕἸΣ ΤῸ ἸΔΕΙ͂Ν ὙΜΩ͂Ν ΤῸ ΠΡΌΣΩΠΟΝ, _by night and day making supplication in exceeding abundant measure, to the end that we may see your face_. On the temporal...
ΝΥΚΤΌΣ ΚΑΪ ΗΜΈΡΑΣ (G3571; G2532: 2465) ночное и дневное время, ночь и день, _gen._ времени. Акцент не на длительности, а на характере времени (GGBB, 123-24). ΎΠΕΡΕΚΠΕΡΙΣΣΟΎ (G5240) _adv._ выходящий и...
DISCOURSE: 2199 A MINISTER’S JOY IN HIS PEOPLE 1 Thessalonians 3:9. _What thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God; night and day pray...
TEXT (1 Thessalonians 3:10) 10 NIGHT AND DAY PRAYING EXCEEDINGLY THAT WE MAY SEE YOUR FACE, AND MAY PERFECT THAT WHICH IS LACKING IN YOUR FAITH? _Transhtion and Paraphrase_ 10. (For we do pray) nig...
Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith? NIGHT AND DAY (note, 1 Thessalonians 2:9). Night is the season for the saints'...
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...
'I pray unceasingly and urgently to the end that I may see you again and correct your shortcomings.' The prayer was answered after some years (Acts 20:1). 11-13. A prayer to Christ as co-equal with t...
THE APOSTLE'S ANXIETY ABOUT HIS CONVERTS 1. Forbear] better, 'endure the suspense.'...
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 3 WHY THEY SENT TIMOTHY 3:1-5 V1 When we could wait no l...
SEE YOUR FACE. — Seeing them by proxy might satisfy for the while, but not for long. This exceeding importunate, prayer is caused by the feeling that it was Satan’s hindrance (1 Thessalonians 2:18), n...
CHAPTER 8 LOVE AND PRAYERS 1 Thessalonians 3:6 (R.V.) THESE verses present no peculiar difficulty to the expositor. They illustrate the remark of Bengel that the First Epistle to the Thessalonians i...
CHAPTER 7 ABSENCE AND LONGING 1 Thessalonians 2:17; 1 Thessalonians 3:1 (R.V.) THE Apostle has said all that he means to say of the opposition of the Jews to the gospel, and in the verses before us...
to 1 Thessalonians 3:13. Paul's _apologia pro absentia suâ_....
Another adaptation of ethnic phraseology, _cf._ _Griechische Urkunden_, i. 246, 12, νυκτὸς καὶ ἡμέρας ἐντυγχάνω τῷ θεῷ ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν (a pagan papyrus from second or third century, A.D.). The connection of...
AWAKENING THANKSGIVING AND INTERCESSION 1 Thessalonians 3:1 At the outset observe that marginal reading by which Timothy is described as _a fellow-worker with God_. What a wonderful phrase, and yet i...
The special purpose of the next movement in his letter was the strengthening of the Thessalonians in their sufferings. Their "work of faith" had brought them into a place of service which entailed suf...
PAUL'S DESIRE TO THANK GOD FOR THEM Paul did not feel capable of expressing the depth of his thanksgiving for the joy those young converts had brought him. Of course, he knew thanksgiving is most appr...
Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might (b) perfect that which is lacking in your faith? (b) Paul was forced through the pressing dealing of the enemies to leave the b...
_That we may see you face. Though epistles in absence give great comfort, and help to confirm the faith once delivered, it is by preaching that the faith of Jesus Christ and true religion are both beg...
(5) For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain. (6) В¶ But now when Timotheus came from you u...
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...
10_Praying beyond measure_. He returns to an expression of his _desire_. For it is never allowable for us to congratulate men, while they live in this world, in such unqualified terms as not always to...
Now this forced removal of the apostle as the chief labourer, without weakening the bond between him and the disciples, formed other links which would consolidate and strengthen the assembly, knitting...
NIGHT AND DAY PRAYING EXCEEDINGLY,.... This good news, not only comforted their hearts, and revived their spirits, and filled them with joy and thankfulness, but also sent them to the throne of grace...
Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith? Ver. 10. _Night and day praying exceedingly_] Prayer must be constant and instant...
_What thanks can we render to God_ That is, what sufficient thanks; _for you_ On account of your perseverance; _for all the joy_ That I have thereby such unfeigned cause of rejoicing; so that the apos...
NIGHT AND DAY PRAYING EXCEEDINGLY THAT WE MIGHT SEE YOUR FACE, AND MIGHT PERFECT THAT WHICH IS LACKING IN YOUR FAITH?...
The apostle prays for their further establishment in faith and love:...
Paul had been driven by persecution from Thessalonica, then from Berea to Athens. Alone at Athens for a time (Acts 17:1), he sent word for Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed (17:15). Evid...
Timothy's report, 3:6-10 6 BUT NOW WHEN TIMOTHEUS CAME FROM YOU UNTO US, AND BROUGHT US GOOD TIDINGS OF YOUR FAITH AND CHARITY, AND THAT YE HAVE GOOD REMEMBRANCE OF US ALWAYS, DESIRING GREATLY TO SEE...
“NIGHT AND DAY PRAYING EXCEEDINGLY THAT WE MAY SEE YOUR FACE, AND MAY PERFECT THAT WHICH IS LACKING IN YOUR FAITH?” “Night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face”: “Night and day makin...
6-10 Thankfulness to God is very imperfect in the present state; but one great end of the ministry of the word is to help faith forward. That which was the instrument to obtain faith, is also the mean...
We have here the last effect of Timothy's message upon the apostle, it put him upon prayer for these Thessalonians; expressed by the assiduity of it, _night and day, _ & c., that is, in a constant cou...
night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith? ["Night," says Joseph de Maistre, "is a great chapter in the Psalms, to which David of...
1 Thessalonians 3:10 night G3571 and G2532 day G2250 praying G1189 (G5740) exceedingly G1537 G4053 G5228
‘For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we joy for your sakes before our God, night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and perfect tha...
_Paul describes the Feelings he had towards the Thessalonians after he had left them._ This paragraph is remarkable chiefly as a manifestation of the ardent affection which Paul felt for his churches....
1 Thessalonians 3:10. The good tidings which Paul had received did not quench but rather intensified his desire to see them. From this intense longing we get a glimpse into the joys of the apostolic l...
EXCEEDINGLY (υπερεκπερισσου). Double compound adverb, only in 1 Thessalonians 3:10; 1 Thessalonians 5:13 (some MSS. -ως). Like piling Ossa on Pelion, περισσως, abundantly, εκ περισσου, out of bounds...
PERFECT (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 5:48). _...
1 Thessalonians 3:6 I. The Apostle now tells us that, on Timothy's return from his mission, bearing good tidings of the Thessalonian Church, he had been comforted. The new-born joy, the tender love of...
CONTENTS: The model Christian brotherhood. The sanctification of the believer. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Timothy. CONCLUSION: It is easy for the servant of Christ to bear afflictions or persecut...
1 Thessalonians 3:1. _Wherefore, when we could no longer forbear,_ seeing you were so oppressed with persecutions, we sent Timothy, and preferred being left agone without a fellow-labourer at Athens....
DAY AND NIGHT WE ASK HIM. This shows how much he wanted to see this group of people who had heard the Good News from him. AND SUPPLY WHAT IS NEEDED. Just coming out of idol worship, they had much to l...
1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 3:9 WHAT IS LACKING IN YOUR FAITH. The missionaries had been unable to complete their usual instruction in the fundamentals of the faith....
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Thessalonians 3:8. FOR NOW WE LIVE, IF YE STAND FAST IN THE LORD.—The man who later could say, “For to me to live is Christ,” prepares us for that saying by this. L...
EXPOSITION CONTENTS.—The apostle, no longer able to repress his longing and anxiety for the Thessalonians, resolved to be left alone at Athens, and sent Timothy for the purpose of exhorting them to en...
WHEREFORE when we could no longer forbear, we thought it would be good to be left at Athens alone; And we sent Timothy, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ...
1 Thessalonians 2:17; 1 Thessalonians 2:18; 1 Thessalonians 3:11; 2 Corinthians 1:15;...
Exceedingly [υ π ε ρ ε κ π ε ρ ι σ σ ο υ]. Comp. Ephesians 3:20. Paul is fond of compounds with uJper above. Of the 28 N. T. words compounded with uJper, 22 are found in Paul, and 20 of them only ther...
Obseve here, how abounding St. Paul was in the duty of prayer for the Thessalonians; his prayer was assiduous and constant, NIGHT AND DAY; it imports frequency and constancy in performance of the duty...