_Yourselves, brethren, know_, &c. What was proposed chap. 1 Thessalonians 1:5, is now more largely treated of; concerning Paul and his fellow- labourers, 1 Thessalonians 2:1: concerning the Thessalonians, 1 Thessalonians 2:13. _Our entrance in unto you_ With what demonstration of a divine agency it... [ Continue Reading ]
_For our exhortation_ That is, our preaching, a part being put for the whole; _was not of deceit_ With a design to seduce or corrupt any one by false doctrine; or, we preach not a lie, but the truth of God; _nor of uncleanness_ Tending to encourage men in their impure course of life; _nor in guile_... [ Continue Reading ]
_But we were gentle_ Mild, tender; _among_ Εν μεσω υμων, _in the midst of, you_ Like a hen surrounded with her young; _even as a nurse_ A mother who suckles her own offspring, as the word τροφος here signifies; _cherisheth her children_ The offspring of her own womb, warming them in her bosom, and f... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ye remember, brethren, our labour_ In the ministerial work; _and travail_ Μοχθον, _toil_, in our secular employment; _for labouring night and day_, &c. It seems they often took from the rest of the night the hours which during the day they had spent in the exercise of their ministry: _because we wo... [ Continue Reading ]
_For this cause_ Or, on this account also; _thank we God without ceasing_ See on 1 Thessalonians 1:2; that is, we not only thank him that we have been enabled to conduct ourselves, and to discharge our duty, in the manner above described, but that, _when ye received the word of God which ye heard_,... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 so apparent in all St. Paul's writings toward those he styles his children in the faith. This is the... [ Continue Reading ]