After all, it is you. Paul uses symbolism to show a timeless reality. The one who won the victory in the Games, was given a crown as a token. Paul points with pride to the Gentile churches as the token of his victory. When he stands before Christ the Judge, they will be his "reason for boasting." He says: "Indeed, you are our pride and our joy!" (See Daniel 12:3.)
Verse 19. _FOR WHAT_ IS _OUR HOPE_] I can have no prospects from earth; I have forsaken all for the Gospel; and esteem every thing it can afford as dross and dung, that I may gain Christ. Why then sh...
FOR WHAT IS OUR HOPE - That is, “I had a strong desire to see you; to assist you; to enjoy your friendship; for you are my hope and joy, and my absence does not arise from a want of affection.” The me...
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...
CROWN. Compare Philippians 1:4; Philippians 1:1. REJOICING. Greek. _kauchesis._ See Romans 3:27. JESUS CHRIST. App-98. but the texts omit "Christ". COMING. Greek. _parousia._ See
_For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing_?] Not _rejoicing_, but GLORYING (R. V.), or BOASTING. "Crown of glorying" is a Hebrew idiom (Isaiah 62:3; Proverbs 16:31, &c.); it is the crown wh...
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...
19. The T.R., following GL, most minn., and all versions except latt and vg (purer copies), adds Χριστου to ΙΗΣΟΥ. Later mss. habitually fill out the names of Christ....
§ 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...
ΚΑΥΧΉΣΕΩΣ (G2746) _gen. sing._ похвала. ΟΎΧΊ (G3780) усиленная форма от ού, которая используется в вопросах, на которые ожидается утвердительный ответ (BD, 220f). Слова "это ведь, конечно, вы, не так...
DISCOURSE: 2197 CHRISTIANS THE JOY OF THEIR MINISTERS 1 Thessalonians 2:19. _What is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? F...
TEXT (1 Thessalonians 2:19-20) 19 FOR WHAT IS OUR HOPE, OR JOY, OR CROWN OF GLORYING? ARE NOT EVEN YE, BEFORE OUR LORD JESUS AT HIS COMING? 20 FOR YE ARE OUR GLORY AND OUR JOY. Translation and Parap...
For what is our hope or joy or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord J...
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...
2:19 also (c-15) Or 'is it not even ye?'...
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...
The prospect of presenting his converts to Christ fills the Apostle with joy....
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...
“We were most anxious to come and stablish you for we should lose all our hope and joy and honours if Christ should come and we should have lost you.” OUR HOPE — _i.e.,_ the object on which our hopes...
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...
Of course we wanted to come back, for (γάρ), etc. The touch of fine exaggeration which follows is true to the situation. Paul's absence from the young church was being misinterpreted in a sinister way...
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...
A DEEP DESIRE TO SEE THEM Paul had been forced to leave, or orphaned as his word means, the newborn Christians in Thessalonica against his personal desire, as can be seen when he says, "having been ta...
(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...
19_For what is our hope_. He confirms that ardor of desire, of which he had made mention, inasmuch as he has his happiness in a manner treasured up in them. “Unless I forget myself, I must necessarily...
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...
FOR WHAT IS OUR HOPE, OR JOY,.... The apostle here gives a reason why they were so concerned at parting with the Thessalonians, and were so desirous of seeing them again, and attempted it so often, ca...
For what _is_ our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? _Are_ not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? Ver. 19. _For what is our hope, &c._] A very lively and lofty expressi...
_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...
Paul's attempts to visit the Thessalonians:...
FOR WHAT IS OUR HOPE, OR JOY, OR CROWN OF REJOICING? ARE NOT EVEN YE IN THE PRESENCE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST AT HIS COMING?...
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...
REJOICING?: Or, glorying...
“FOR WHAT IS OUR HOPE, OR JOY, OR CROWN OF GLORYING? ARE NOT EVEN YE, BEFORE OUR LORD JESUS AT HIS COMING?” “What”: Or “who” (NASV). '”CROWN OF GLORYING”? “Crown of exultation” (NASV). “When. king or...
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...
Here the apostle gives the reason of his desire to see them. He first calls them his _hope; _ that is, the master of his hope, that among others they should be saved in the day of Christ. Secondly, hi...
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?...
Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh And again: "For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord God, Jesus Christ, at His coming? "[164]...
1 Thessalonians 2:19 For G1063 what G5101 our G2257 hope G1680 or G2228 joy G5479 or G2228 crown G4735
‘For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are not even you before our Lord Jesus at his coming? For you are our glory and joy.' Paul now reveals how important they are to him and his compan...
1 Thessalonians 2:19. FOR. Paul accounts for his earnest desire to revisit Thessalonica. I thus earnestly long to see you, for there is nothing which affords the same prospect, or the same present enj...
_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....
CROWN OF GLORYING (στεφανος καυχησεως). When a king or conqueror came on a visit he was given a chaplet of glorying. Paul is answering the insinuation that he did not really wish to come.AT HIS COM...
1 Thessalonians 2:19 I. The text points to the future. Paul loved the Thessalonians; he made mention of them in his prayers. He remembered without ceasing their work of faith, their labour of love, th...
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...
1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 2:19 Presenting his converts to Jesus at the second coming is part of Paul’s Christian hope. CROWN. Crowns or wreaths were given to winning athletes....
_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 15:23; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 1 John 2:28; 1 Peter 5:4;...
Hope. Used of the object of hope, as Colossians 1:5; 1 Timothy 1:1; Hebrews 6:18. Joy - crown [χ α ρ α - σ τ ε φ α ν ο ς]. Comp. Philippians 4:1
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...
Ye also — As well as our other children....
Here, in the close of the chapter, St. Paul acquaints the Thessalonians with the true reason why he had such an endearing affection for them, and such. fervent desire to be present with them. They wer...