Charles Rose Commentaries
1 Thessalonians 2:20
γάρ (G1063) да, конечно. Частица вводит ответ на риторический вопрос, в подобных случаях подтверждая сказанное, являясь как бы скрытым "да" (BD, 236).
γάρ (G1063) да, конечно. Частица вводит ответ на риторический вопрос, в подобных случаях подтверждая сказанное, являясь как бы скрытым "да" (BD, 236).
Verse 1 Thessalonians 2:20. _FOR YE ARE OUR GLORY AND JOY._] Ye are the seal of our apostleship; your conversion and steadiness are a full proof that God hath sent us. Converts to Christ are our ornam...
FOR YE ARE OUR GLORY AND JOY - The meaning is, that the source of happiness to a minister of the gospel in the day of judgment will be the conversion and salvation of souls. The object of the apostle...
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...
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...
_For ye are our glory and joy_ Or: YEA, VERILY, YOU ARE OUR GLORY AND JOY (Ellicott). Emphasis rests both on "ye" and "are." This delight was not matter of hope alone (1 Thessalonians 2:19), but of pr...
§ 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...
ὙΜΕΙ͂Σ ΓΆΡ ἘΣΤΕ Ἡ ΔΌΞΑ ἩΜΩ͂Ν ΚΑῚ Ἡ ΧΑΡΆ. _Yes, truly, you are our glory and our joy_. In this reply to the rhetorical question of 1 Thessalonians 2:19, δόξα covers ἐλπίς and στέφανος καυχήσεως, while...
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...
FOR YE ARE OUR GLORY AND JOY.— The Apostle expected to know the Thessalonians again at the day of judgment, and in the other world; and rejoiced in the hope of meeting them among the holy and glorifie...
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 ye are our glory and joy. Emphatic repetition. Who but ye and our other converts are our hope, etc., hereafter, at Christ's coming? For it is ye who ARE now our glory and joy....
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...
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_....
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...
REFLECTIONS LET as many ministers of the Lord Jesus Christ as read this precious chapter, beg for grace, to be enabled to follow the Apostle's example in their ministry, and humbly pray for the same s...
(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...
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 YE ARE OUR GLORY AND JOY. Or "our joy", as the Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions read; this is a repetition, and a confirmation of what is before said; and signifies that these saints were the...
For ye are our glory and joy. Ver. 20. _For ye are our glory and joy_] Let no man therefore envy us these temporary good things, a competent maintenance: there are better things abide us above....
_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...
Sinners who are converted and saved in answer to the prayers and through the instrumentality of Christians, will be jewels in their crown of everlasting joy....
Paul's attempts to visit the Thessalonians:...
FOR YE ARE OUR GLORY AND JOY. Here the apostle returns once more to the declaration of the cordial affection which he felt for the Thessalonian Christians: But we, brethren, bereft of you for a little...
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...
“FOR YE ARE OUR GLORY AND OUR JOY” This statement should challenge us. For Paul is saying that these Christians brought him more joy and made him prouder than any material object. Are our brethren mo...
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...
He redoubles the expression, to show his great affection, and complacency of heart in them; or to show that they more than others were this occasion of rejoicing to him. And he mentions GLORY as well...
For ye are our glory and our joy. [Paul also calls the Philippians his joy and crown (Philippians 4:1), and expresses, as here, a hope of glorying hereafter both in them and in the Corinthians (Philip...
1 Thessalonians 2:20 For G1063 you G5210 are G2075 (G5748) our G2257 glory G1391 and G2532 joy G5479
‘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...
_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 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 2:19 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...
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 11:7; Proverbs 17:6...
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...