PAUL'S THANKSGIVING
2 This is the pattern pastoral epistle. Paul's deep concern leads him
to constant prayer for them, for he knows their need and has been torn
from them before it was possible for him to teach them much.
3 It is most significant to find in the opening strain of this, Paul's
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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 seat of sensation.
To impart his own soul to them conveys the thought that he, like the
true mot... [ Continue Reading ]