Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book III
For the theatre, and pageants, and many spectators, and strolling in the temples, and loitering in the streets, that they may be seen conspicuously by all, are necessary to them. For those that glory in their looks, not in heart[13]
Verse 17. _BEING TAKEN FROM YOU FOR A SHORT TIME_] Through the persecution raised by the Jews, see Acts xvii., he was obliged to leave Thessalonica, and yield to a storm that it would have been useles...
BUT WE, BRETHREN, BEING TAKEN FROM YOU - There is more implied in the Greek word here rendered, “being taken from you “ - ἀπορφανισθέντες aporphanisthentes - than appears from our translation. It pr...
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)...
But, brothers, when we had been separated from you--in presence but not in heart--for a short time, we were the more exceedingly eager with a great desire to see your face. So we wished to come to you...
BEING TAKEN. having been bereaved. Greek. _aporphanizomai._ Only here. Compare John 14:18. FROM. App-104. A SHORT TIME. Literally. season of an hour. PRESENCE, FACE. Compare 1 Corinthians 5:3.
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...
_But we, brethren, being taken from you_ BEREAVED OF YOU (R. V.), or TORN AWAY FROM YOU; lit., _orphaned_a word employed in Greek with some latitude the very strongest expression the Apostle could fin...
§ 5. 1 Thessalonians 2:17 TO 1 Thessalonians 3:5. The Separation of the Apostles from their Converts After the pause for thanksgiving to God, which in its turn led up to the stern denunciation of Jewi...
ἩΜΕΙ͂Σ ΔΈ, ἈΔΕΛΦΟΊ, ἈΠΟΡΦΑΝΙΣΘΈΝΤΕΣ�ʼ ὙΜΩ͂Ν. _But we on our part, brothers, torn from you in bereavement—desolati a vobis_ (Vulg.), _orbati vobis_ (Calvin, &c.)—“sicut parentes filiis absentibus” (Ben...
ΆΠΟΡΦΑΝΙΣΘΈΝΤΕΣ _aor. pass. part. от_ ΆΠΟΡΦΑΝΊΖΟΜΑΙ (G642) делать кого-л. сиротой, разлучив его с родителями. Это слово могло относиться к сироте, к бездетным родителям или обозначать вообще лишенност...
BEING TAKEN FROM YOU— The original word is very emphatical;— απορφανισθεντες. It is an allusion to that grief, anxiety, and reluctance of heart with which dying parents take farewell of their children...
TEXT (1 Thessalonians 2:17) 17 BUT WE, BRETHREN, BEING BEREAVED OF YOU FOR A SHORT SEASON, IN PRESENCE NOT IN HEART, ENDEAVORED THE MORE EXCEEDINGLY TO SEE YOUR FACE WITH GREAT DESIRE: Translation a...
But we brethren being taken from you for a short time in presence not in heart endeavoured the more But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the...
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...
2:17 separated (b-10) Lit. 'orphaned of.' The one Greek word has been translated 'bereaved ... and separated' to express the emphatic reiteration of the Greek preposition _ apo_ ....
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...
BUT WE, BRETHREN. — Now comes a change of subject: no longer the memories of the time when St. Paul was among them, but his hopes and fears about them since he left. “But while you were being persecu...
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...
πρὸς κ. ὥ., as we both expected, but, as it turned out, for much longer. προσ. οὐ κ., “not where I breathe; but where I love, I live” (Southwell, the Elizabethan Jesuit poet, echoing Augustine's remar...
to 1 Thessalonians 3:13. Paul's _apologia pro absentia suâ_....
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...
(15) But we, brethren, (m) being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire. (15) He meets with an objection, why he...
_Being taken away from [5] you. Literally, become desolate, because of our separation from you. (Witham)_ [BIBLIOGRAPHY] Desolati a vobis, _Greek: aporphanisthentes._...
(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...
17_But we, brethren, bereaved of you_. This excuse has been appropriately added, lest the Thessalonians should think that Paul had deserted them while so great an emergency demanded his presence. He h...
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...
BUT WE, BRETHREN, BEING TAKEN FROM YOU,.... Here more properly should begin the third chapter, in which the apostle having before observed the manner of his entrance among these people, the nature of...
But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire. Ver. 17. _For a short time_] Or, In a short time...
_But we, brethren_, &c. In this verse we have a remarkable instance, not so much of the transient affections of holy grief, desire, or joy, as of that abiding tenderness, that loving temper, which is...
BEING TAKEN FROM YOU; bereaved of you, as the original word means. The apostle felt, in his separation from the Thessalonians, like a father bereaved of his children....
Paul's attempts to visit the Thessalonians:...
BUT WE, BRETHREN, BEING TAKEN FROM YOU FOR A SHORT TIME IN PRESENCE, NOT IN HEART, ENDEAVORED THE MORE ABUNDANTLY TO SEE YOUR FACE WITH GREAT DESIRE....
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...
D. Concern for the church, 2:17-3:10 1. Paul's desire to return, 2:17-20 17 BUT WE, BRETHREN, BEING TAKEN FROM YOU FOR A SHORT TIME IN PRESENCE, NOT IN HEART, ENDEAVOURED THE MORE ABUNDANTLY TO SEE...
“BUT WE, BRETHREN, BEING BEREAVED OF YOU FOR. SHORT SEASON, IN PRESENCE NOT IN HEART, ENDEAVORED THE MORE EXCEEDINGLY TO SEE YOUR FACE WITH GREAT DESIRE” “But we”: In contrast to their enemies. “BERE...
17-20 This world is not a place where we are to be always, or long together. In heaven holy souls shall meet, and never part more. And though the apostle could not come to them yet, and thought he mig...
The apostle here makes his apology, for his so soon departing from them, and his continued absence. They were under great sufferings for receiving the gospel he had preached, and for him therefore to...
But we, brethren, being bereaved of you for a short season [about six months], _in presence not in heart_ [Colossians 2:5], _endeavored the more exceedingly to see your face with great desire_ [Paul h...
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‘But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short while (literally ‘a season of an hour'), in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more exceedingly to see your face with great desire, because we...
_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 2:17. BUT WE. The ‘we' is emphatic, equivalent to ‘so far as concerns us;' and Paul is induced to speak of his own feelings towards them, apparently for the sake of removing any bitter...
BEING BEREAVED OF YOU (απορφανισθεντες αφ' υμων). First aorist passive participle of the rare compound verb (απορφανιζω, in Aeschylus, but nowhere else in N.T.). Literally,BEING ORPHANED FROM YOU...
1 Thessalonians 2:17 I. The Thessalonian Christians were peculiarly the Apostle's hope, being regarded by him, not simply as a conspicuous part of the reward in glory which was in store for him, but a...
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...
HOW WE MISSED YOU. He had been forced to leave them (Acts 17:10)....
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Thessalonians 2:17. BEING TAKEN FROM YOU.—R.V. “bereaved of you.” St. Paul, absent from Thessalonica, feels like a parent who has lost a child, and regards them as...
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 Corinthians 5:3; 1 Thessalonians 3:10; 1 Thessalonians 3:11; 1 Thessalonians 3:6;...
Being taken from you [α π ο ρ φ α ν ι σ θ ε ν τ ε ς]. N. T. o. o LXX Rev. better, being bereaved of you. From ojrfanov bereft. See Mark 12:40; John 14:18; James 1:27. The word suggests the intimate pe...
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...
In this verse we have a remarkable instance, not so much of the transient affections of holy grief, desire, or joy, as of that abiding tenderness, that loving temper, which is so apparent in all St. P...
Observe here, that St. Paul having all along, in the chapter before us, compared himself to. tender father, and. nursing mother, for his affectionate love unto, and his solicitous concern for, these C...