1 Thessalonians 2:11

1 Thessalonians 2:11. As ye know. An expansion and further confirmation of the preceding verse. He particularizes the carefulness he had shown for individuals.

Exhorted, and comforted, and charged. Using in each case the kind of admonition which seemed most appropriate, exhorting, or kindly encouraging, or solemnly and earnestly adjuring.

Every one of you. This shows that the successes of the apostles were not easily won, that converts were not made in masses, but by the slow, toilsome, affectionate application of the Gospel to individuals, one by one. Without this personal and individual dealing, the public preaching of the Gospel comes to little.

As a father. Paul fitly compares himself now to a father, as, above, the mother was the more suitable comparison. Eadmer says of Anselm: ‘He was to those in health a father, to the sick a mother rather, to healthy and sick, lather and mother in one.'