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Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)

1 Thessalonians 1:2

1 Thessalonians 1:2. We. This probably refers, as in 1Th 2:18, 1 Thessalonians 3:1, to Paul himself.

Give thanks to God. So Paul begins most of his Epistles, but here the causes of thankfulness are more fully enlarged upon. He welcomes the tidings brought him by Timothy, and subjects him to no cynical cross examination. It is always a pleasure to him to praise, to recognise merit, to fan the smoking flax.

Always for all of you. ‘Forgetting none; such is our never-failing habit' (Jowett).

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  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

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