because we would fain have come unto you, I Paul once and again [emphatic way of saying twice]; and Satan hindered us. [How Satan hindered, we are not told, but we find that his emissaries had so little disposition to let Paul return that they drove him from Beroea onward to Athens.]
Verse 18. _EVEN I PAUL_] He had already sent Timothy and Silas to them; but he himself was anxious to see them, and had purposed this _once and again, but Satan hindered_; i.e., some _adversary_, as t...
WHEREFORE WE WOULD HAVE COME UNTO YOU, EVEN I PAUL - The phrase “even I Paul,” seems to be used by way of emphasis. He had a special desire to go himself. He had sent Timothy to them 1 Thessalonians 3...
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...
WOULD HAVE. wished to. App-102. ONCE AND AGAIN. Compare Philippians 1:4; Philippians 1:16. HINDERED. Greek. _enkopto._ See Acts 24:4....
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...
_Wherefore we would have come unto you_ The true reading is BECAUSE not "wherefore," due probably to a misunderstanding of the following verb, which is not removed by the rendering of the R. V., "beca...
§ 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...
ΔΙΟΤΙ: so in all pre-Syrian uncials. 18. ΔΙΌΤΙ ἨΘΕΛΉΣΑΜΕΝ ἘΛΘΕΙ͂Ν ΠΡῸΣ ὙΜΑ͂Σ, _because we had resolved to come to you_: place a colon only at the end of 1 Thessalonians 2:17. The A.V.—“Wherefore we wo...
ΔΙΌΤΙ (G1360) потому что (_см._ 1 Thessalonians 2:8). ΉΘΕΛΉΣΑΜΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΘΈΛΩ (G2309) хотеть, желать. Это слово, вероятно, обозначает волю, которая проистекает из наклонностей (Т; Morris)...
BUT SATAN HINDERED US.— When the Hebrews would express any thing remarkably great, they add the name of _God_ to it; so they call great mountains, the _mountains of God,_—and the like: and thus, when...
TEXT (1 Thessalonians 2:18) 18 BECAUSE WE WOULD FAIN HAVE COME UNTO YOU, I PAUL ONCE AND AGAIN; AND SATAN HINDERED US. Translation and Paraphrase 18. Wherefore, we were resolved to come to you, ev...
Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us. WHEREFORE. ['Aleph (') A B Delta G f g, Vulgate read, dioti (G1360) for dio (G1352); Ellicott, "Wherefore...
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...
WE WOULD. — Not merely a conditional tense, but “we were ready to come — meant to come.” EVEN I PAUL. — Rather, _that is to say, I; Paul,_ not as if it were a great thing that one like _him_ should ha...
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...
“We did crave to reach you,” διότι (= because) not being required with the English stress on _did_. The whole verse is parenthetical, syntactically. καὶ … Σατανᾶς. The mysterious obstacle, which Paul...
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...
Satan hindered us. That is, has raised such an aversion to me among the pagans and Jews of Thessalonica, that my friends do not think it safe I should come among you. I am now detained from you by vio...
(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...
18_Satan hindered us_. Luke relates that Paul was in one instance hindered, (Acts 20:3) inasmuch as the Jews laid an ambush for him in the way. The same thing, or something similar, may have occurred...
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...
WHEREFORE WE WOULD HAVE COME UNTO YOU,.... They not only had a will, and purposed in themselves, and entered into some resolutions to come unto them, but endeavoured to put them into execution: EVEN...
Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us. Ver. 18. _But Satan hindered us_] He still doth his utmost to hinder the communion of saints, and to keep th...
_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...
HINDERED US; the agency which Satan employed was probably that of wicked men. Efforts for the salvation of souls are hated and opposed, not only by wicked men, but by Satan; and often he succeeds in h...
Paul's attempts to visit the Thessalonians:...
WHEREFORE WE WOULD HAVE COME UNTO YOU, EVEN I, PAUL, ONCE AND AGAIN; BUT SATAN HINDERED US....
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...
“BECAUSE WE WOULD FAIN HAVE COME UNTO YOU,. PAUL ONCE AND AGAIN; AND SATAN HINDERED US” “Fain”: “We wanted” (Wey). “I PAUL ONCE AND AGAIN”: “Not implying any less desire on the part of his associates...
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...
This he adds further to satisfy them of his real affection to them, that he attempted to come to them ONCE AND AGAIN, that is, often, as NEHEMIAH 13:20 PHILIPPIANS 4:16. And that they might be assured...
1 Thessalonians 2:18 Therefore G1352 wanted G2309 (G5656) come G2064 (G5629) to G4314 even G3303 I G1473
‘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...
1 Thessalonians 2:18. EVEN I PAUL. In saying ‘ _we_ would have come,' Paul includes Silas and Timothy, and by this appended clause he means to emphasize his own strong personal longing to revisit his...
_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....
BECAUSE (διοτ). As in 1 Thessalonians 2:8.WE WOULD FAIN HAVE COME TO YOU (ηθελησαμεν ελθειν προς υμας). First aorist active indicative of θελω. Literally,WE DESIRED TO COME TO YOU. I PAUL (εγω μ...
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...
1 Thessalonians 2:18 I. There is a hinderer. Not only are there hindrances, there is a personal hinderer. He is not visible, he is not persuadable, he must be resisted. II. This hinderer assails the...
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...
BUT SATAN WOULD NOT LET US. We are not told how, but some difficulties came up that Paul credits to Satan....
1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 2:18 I, PAUL. Paul feels he must explain the absence. SATAN HINDERED US. How Satan did this is unknown....
_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 16:21; 2 Corinthians 11:12; 2 Thessalonians 3:17; Colossians 4:18;...
We would [η θ ε λ η σ α μ ε ν]. Implying more than a mere inclination or desire. It was our will to come. See on Matthew 1:19. I Paul. Not implying any less desire on the part of his associates, but e...
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...
Satan — By those persecuting Jews, Acts 17:13....