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Verse 7. _THEREFORE - WE WERE COMFORTED _] My afflictions and
persecutions seemed trifles when I heard of your perseverance in the
faith....
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WE WERE COMFORTED OVER YOU - See the notes, 2Co 1:3-7; 2 Corinthians
7:6. The sense here is, that their steadfastness was a great source of
comfort to him in his trials. It was an instance where the h...
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III. AFFLICTIONS AND COMFORT
CHAPTER 3
_ 1. Timotheus, Paul's messenger 1 Thessalonians 3:1)_
2. His return with good tidings and the apostle's comfort and joy 1
Thessalonians 3:6)
3. This earnest...
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THE MISSION OF TIMOTHY TO THESSALONICA. Paul's distress and anxiety
with regard to the fate of the Church led him to send Timothy upon a
mission of inquiry. He describes the effect produced upon him b...
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So, when we could not stand it any longer, we made up our minds to be
left all alone in Athens, and we sent Timothy our brother and God's
servant in the good news of Christ, to strengthen you and enco...
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THE PASTOR AND HIS FLOCK (1 Thessalonians 3:1-10)...
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THEREFORE. Same as "For this cause", 1 Thessalonians 3:5.
OVER. App-104.
IN. Same as "over".
DISTRESS. necessity, as 1 Corinthians 7:26....
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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...
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_therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you_ FOR THIS CAUSE (R.
V.), the Greek phrase being identical with that of 1 Thessalonians
3:5. But while its reference there was to the _peril_of the temp...
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§ 6. 1 Thessalonians 3:6-13. The Good News brought by Timothy
Timothy has just returned from Thessalonica; and his report is
entirely reassuring (1 Thessalonians 3:6), so that it gives new life
to Pau...
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ΑΝΑΓΚΗΙ ΚΑΙ ΘΛΙΨΕΙ (in this order): all uncials except
KL, and the best minn. and versions. Θλιψις is much the more
familiar word of the two; see 1 Thessalonians 3:3; 1 Thessalonians
1:6.
7. ΔΙᾺ ΤΟΥ͂Τ...
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TEXT (1 Thessalonians 3:7-8)
7 FOR THIS CAUSE, BRETHREN, WE WERE COMFORTED OVER YOU IN ALL OUR
DISTRESS AND AFFLICTION THROUGH YOUR FAITH: 8 FOR NOW WE LIVE, IF YE
STAND FAST IN THE LORD.
Translatio...
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Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction
and distress by your faith:
OVER YOU, [ ef' (G1909) humin (G5213)] - in respect to you. It is a
comfort to him who loves to he...
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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...
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3:7 in (g-8) _ Epi_ with a dative. Here, and in 2 Corinthians 7:7 ,
the apostle states what gave occasion for comfort to him -- the
circumstance, not the cause. It is a similar construction in ver. 9...
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THE APOSTLE'S ANXIETY ABOUT HIS CONVERTS
1. Forbear] better, 'endure the suspense.'...
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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 3
WHY THEY SENT TIMOTHY 3:1-5
V1 When we could wait no l...
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IN ALL OUR AFFLICTION AND DISTRESS. — The words give no decisive
indication whether the distress came from within or from without, and
it is impossible to specify in what it consisted; but either way...
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CHAPTER 8
LOVE AND PRAYERS
1 Thessalonians 3:6 (R.V.)
THESE verses present no peculiar difficulty to the expositor. They
illustrate the remark of Bengel that the First Epistle to the
Thessalonians i...
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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...
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to 1 Thessalonians 3:13. Paul's _apologia pro absentia suâ_....
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AWAKENING THANKSGIVING AND INTERCESSION
1 Thessalonians 3:1
At the outset observe that marginal reading by which Timothy is
described as _a fellow-worker with God_. What a wonderful phrase, and
yet i...
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The special purpose of the next movement in his letter was the
strengthening of the Thessalonians in their sufferings. Their "work of
faith" had brought them into a place of service which entailed
suf...
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ENCOURAGEMENT FOUND IN TIMOTHY'S REPORT
Almost as soon as Timothy arrived, Paul had begun to write. The news
was good because they remained strong in faith and love. Their love
for Paul had caused the...
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(5) For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know
your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our
labour be in vain. (6) В¶ But now when Timotheus came from you u...
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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...
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Now this forced removal of the apostle as the chief labourer, without
weakening the bond between him and the disciples, formed other links
which would consolidate and strengthen the assembly, knitting...
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THEREFORE, BRETHREN, WE WERE COMFORTED OVER, YOU,.... Or "in you", as
the Vulgate Latin version; or "from you", as the Arabic; or "by you",
as the Syriac; or "for you", as the Ethiopic; that is, on ac...
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Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction
and distress by your faith:
Ver. 7. _We were comforted_] Nothing so cheereth up the heart of a
godly minister as his people's tra...
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_For this cause_ The apostle proceeds to explain more fully what he
began to speak of 1 Thessalonians 3:1; _when I could no longer
forbear_ Or endure the state of anxious uncertainty I was in with
reg...
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THEREFORE, BRETHREN, WE WERE COMFORTED OVER YOU IN ALL OUR AFFLICTION
AND DISTRESS BY YOUR FAITH;...
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The effect upon the apostle of Timothy's encouraging report:...
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Paul had been driven by persecution from Thessalonica, then from Berea
to Athens. Alone at Athens for a time (Acts 17:1), he sent word for
Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed (17:15). Evid...
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Timothy's report, 3:6-10
6 BUT NOW WHEN TIMOTHEUS CAME FROM YOU UNTO US, AND BROUGHT US GOOD
TIDINGS OF YOUR FAITH AND CHARITY, AND THAT YE HAVE GOOD REMEMBRANCE
OF US ALWAYS, DESIRING GREATLY TO SEE...
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“FOR THIS CAUSE, BRETHREN, WE WERE COMFORTED OVER YOU IN ALL OUR
DISTRESS AND AFFLICTION THROUGH YOUR FAITH”
“For this cause”: The great news found in the previous verse.
“WE WERE COMFORTED OVER YOU...
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6-10 Thankfulness to God is very imperfect in the present state; but
one great end of the ministry of the word is to help faith forward.
That which was the instrument to obtain faith, is also the mean...
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He was COMFORTED BY this FAITH of theirs IN ALL his own AFFLICTION AND
DISTRESS. The faithfulness and constancy of a people is the great
comfort of their teachers. I HAVE NO GREATER JOY THAN TO HEAR T...
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for this cause, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our
distress and affliction through your faith [Since Paul would be
comforted as to the Thessalonians by the good news of their condition
br...
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1 Thessalonians 3:7 therefore G1223 G5124 brethren G80 in G1909 all
G3956 our G2257 affliction G2347 and G253
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‘But when Timothy came even now to us from you, and brought us the
good news of your faith and love, and that you have good remembrance
of us always, longing to see us as we also to see you, for this...
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_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....
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1 Thessalonians 3:7. WE WERE COMFORTED. The tidings which Paul
received of the stedfastness of his Thessalonians under trial, enabled
him to endure his own troubles with greater equanimity. Their
cont...
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OVER YOU
(εφ' υμιν). Επ with the locative, the basis on which the
"comfort" rests.IN
(επ). Locative case again with επ.DISTRESS
(αναγκη).PHYSICAL NECESSITY
, common sense in late Greek, choki...
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1 Thessalonians 3:6
I. The Apostle now tells us that, on Timothy's return from his
mission, bearing good tidings of the Thessalonian Church, he had been
comforted. The new-born joy, the tender love of...
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CONTENTS: The model Christian brotherhood. The sanctification of the
believer.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Timothy.
CONCLUSION: It is easy for the servant of Christ to bear afflictions
or persecut...
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1 Thessalonians 3:1. _Wherefore, when we could no longer forbear,_
seeing you were so oppressed with persecutions, we sent Timothy, and
preferred being left agone without a fellow-labourer at Athens....
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WE HAVE BEEN ENCOURAGED. He is filled with joy that they are faithful
to Christ! (Compare 2 John 1:4.)...
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_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_
1 Thessalonians 3:8. FOR NOW WE LIVE, IF YE STAND FAST IN THE
LORD.—The man who later could say, “For to me to live is
Christ,” prepares us for that saying by this. L...
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EXPOSITION
CONTENTS.—The apostle, no longer able to repress his longing and
anxiety for the Thessalonians, resolved to be left alone at Athens,
and sent Timothy for the purpose of exhorting them to en...
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WHEREFORE when we could no longer forbear, we thought it would be good
to be left at Athens alone; And we sent Timothy, our brother, and
minister of God, and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ...
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1 Corinthians 4:9; 1 Thessalonians 3:8; 1 Thessalonians 3:9; 2
Corinthians 1:4;...
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Affliction [α ν α γ κ η]. Rev. distress. The derivation from
agxein to press tightly, to choke (Lightfoot, Ellicott) is doubtful.
In the sense of urgency, distress, seldom in Class. See 1 Corinthians...
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In these words our apostle declares the transcendant joy and
overflowing comfort, which was found in his soul, upon the knowledge
he had received of the constancy and stedfastness of the faith of
thes...