Geneva Study Bible Commentary
1 Thessalonians 2:11
(9) As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father [doth] his children,
(9) To exhort and comfort with a fatherly mind and affection.
(9) As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father [doth] his children,
(9) To exhort and comfort with a fatherly mind and affection.
Verse 11. _HOW WE EXHORTED_] What pastoral care is marked here! They _exhorted_-were continually teaching and instructing, the objects of their charge; this was their _general_ work. _AND COMFORTED_]...
HOW WE EXHORTED - That is, to a holy life. AND COMFORTED - In the times of affliction. AND CHARGED - Greek, “testified.” The word testify is used here in the sense of protesting, or making an earnest...
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'S DEFENCE OF HIS MISSIONARY WORK. Paul had been charged by his opponents with being a wandering sophist making money out of his followers. He rebuts the charge and incidentally gives us a picture...
You yourselves know, brothers, that our coming among you was not to no effect; but after we had--as you know--already undergone suffering and ill-treatment at Philippi, we were bold in our God to tell...
PAUL ON HIS DEFENSE (1 Thessalonians 2:1-12)...
EXHORTED. App-134. COMFORTED. Greek. _paramutheomai._ See John 11:19. CHARGED. testified to. Greek. _marturomai,_ with texts. See Galatians 1:5; Galatians 1:3. EVERY. each....
section ii The Apostle's Conduct at Thessalonica. Ch. 1 Thessalonians 2:1-12 _Analysis_. The ministry of Paul and his colleagues at Thessalonica had been unmistakably genuine, 1 Thessalonians 2:1. Th...
_as you know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father_doth _his children_ The R. V. recasts the verse, restoring the order and emphasis of the Apostle's words: HOW WE DE...
§ 3. 1 Thessalonians 2:1-12. The Conduct of the Apostles at Thessalonica The thanksgiving just offered to God for the conspicuous Christian worth of the Thessalonians reflects upon _the work of the wr...
ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΟΥ͂ΝΤΕΣ … ΠΑΡΑΜΥΘΟΎΜΕΝΟΙ … ΜΑΡΤΥΡΌΜΕΝΟΙ, _exhorting … encouraging … testifying_. Παρακαλέω is the general term for animating address (cf. note on παράκλησις, 1 Thessalonians 2:3, also 1 Thessal...
11, 12. ΚΑΘΆΠΕΡ ΟἼΔΑΤΕ ὩΣ ἝΝΑ ἝΚΑΣΤΟΝ … ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΟΥ͂ΝΤΕΣ κ.τ.λ. The ὡς … παρακαλοῦντες sentence is not completed, and ἕνα ἕκαστον remains in suspense, an object with no verb to govern it. The participia...
ΚΑΘΆΠΕΡ (G2509) подобно тому, как; согласно. Первая часть этого слова выражает сравнение, вторая — область применения. Оно вводит призыв к верующим подтвердить его слова на основании собственного опыт...
DISCOURSE: 2195 THE DUTY OF THOSE WHO ARE CALLED 1 Thessalonians 2:11. _Ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children, that ye would walk worthy of...
TEXT (1 Thessalonians 2:11-12) 11 AS YE KNOW HOW WE _DEALT WITH_ EACH ONE OF YOU, AS A FATHER WITH HIS OWN CHILDREN, EXHORTING YOU, AND ENCOURAGING _YOU,_ AND TESTIFYING, 12 TO THE END THAT YE SHOULD...
As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children, EXHORTED AND COMFORTED. Exhortation leads one to do a thing willingly; consolation, to do it jo...
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...
AS (emphatic):” _we_ lived holily — just (in fact) as you remember we tried to induce each one of _you_ to live.” EVERY ONE, — Now they appeal to the _individual_ recollection of the Thessalonians. It...
CHAPTER 5 _ APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA_ 1 Thessalonians 2:1 (R.V.) OUR first impression, as we read these verses, is that they contain little that is new. They simply expand the statement of chap. 1, ver...
καθάπερ, sharper than καθώς. Viteau (ii. 111) suggests that κ. ο. is a parenthesis, and ὡς a causal introductory particle for the participles (“heartening,” “encouraging,” “adjuring”) which in their t...
An _apologia pro vita et labors suo_....
THE FRUIT OF UNSPARING LABOR 1 Thessalonians 2:1 Paul preached in great conflict of soul because of his passionate desire for the salvation of men. In this, many of the notable servants of God have s...
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...
THEY WITNESSED PAUL'S LOVE AND BEHAVIOR Paul's love for them was so intense that he was ready to pour out his very life for them in the preaching of the gospel. One who preaches the gospel with the ri...
(1) В¶ For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain: (2) But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were...
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...
11_Every one as a father_. He insists more especially on those things which belong to his office. He has compared himself to a _nurse: _he now compares himself to a _father_. What he means is this — t...
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...
AS YOU KNOW,.... This is added to the end of the last verse in the Arabic version, and which begins this verse thus, "as one of you, and as a father comforting his sons, so we", c. but for what is sai...
As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father _doth_ his children, Ver. 11. _As a father_] Before, as a mother, 1 Thessalonians 2:7, a nurse not mercenary, but na...
_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 n...
AS YE KNOW HOW WE EXHORTED AND COMFORTED AND CHARGED EVERY ONE OF YOU, AS A FATHER DOTH HIS CHILDREN,...
Paul's unselfish devotion:...
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...
B. The proper conduct in daily living, 2:5-12 5 FOR NEITHER AT ANY TIME USED WE FLATTERING WORDS, AS YE KNOW, NOR A CLOKE OF COVETOUSNESS; GOD [IS] WITNESS: 6 Nor of men sought we glory, neither of...
“AS YE KNOW HOW WE DEALT WITH EACH ONE OF YOU, AS. FATHER WITH HIS OWN CHILDREN, EXHORTING YOU, AND ENCOURAGING YOU, AND TESTIFYING” “Dealt with each one of you”: Which infers that these three preach...
7-12 Mildness and tenderness greatly recommend religion, and are most conformable to God's gracious dealing with sinners, in and by the gospel. This is the way to win people. We should not only be fa...
Besides his public ministry, he dealt more privately with them, as ACTS 20:20; and that in a way of exhortation and comfort; by exhortation to quicken them, and by comfort to support them under troubl...
as ye know how we dealt with each one of you [individually, and without partiality], _as a father_ [as patiently, tenderly and earnestly as a father] _with his own children, exhorting you, and encoura...
1 Thessalonians 2:11 as G2509 know G1492 (G5758) how G5613 exhorted G3870 (G5723) and G2532 comforted G3
‘You are witnesses, and God also, how holily and righteously and unblameably we behaved ourselves towards you who believe, as you know how we dealt with each one of you, as a father with his own child...
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....
_Paul appeals to the Thessalonians themselves as able to testify to his Boldness, Straightforwardness, and Disinterestedness, while resident among them._ In chap. 1 Thessalonians 1:9 Paul had alluded...
AS A FATHER WITH HIS OWN CHILDREN (ως πατηρ τεκνα εαυτου). Change from the figure of the mother-nurse in verse 1 Thessalonians 2:7. There is ellipse of a principal verb with the participles παρακαλο...
1 Thessalonians 2:10 There are two points to be noted here in this comparison instituted by Paul between his conduct and that of a father. I. He could say, as a wise father suits his dealings, both i...
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...
JUST AS A FATHER. Who teaches and guides his children for their own good and benefit....
1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 2:1 Paul expands on what he said in summary form in 1 Thessalonians 1:5: while they were in Thessalonica, he and his fellow missionari
1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 2:10 KINGDOM AND GLORY. At Jesus’ second coming, Christians will enjoy the full benefits of God’s kingdom....
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Thessalonians 2:9. LABOUR AND TRAVAIL.—The same words occur together at 2 Corinthians 11:27. The former is used some twenty times, the latter only three in the New T...
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 Chronicles 22:11; 1 Chronicles 28:20; 1 Chronicles 28:9; 1 Corinthians 4:14;...
Comforted [π α ρ α μ υ θ ο υ μ ε ν ο ι]. The A. V. renders the three participles in this verse as finite verbs, we exhorted, etc. Rev. retains the participial construction. Better than comforted, pers...
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...
By exhorting, we are moved to do a thing willingly; by comforting, to do it joyfully; by charging, to do it carefully....
Observe, that still our apostle appeals to their own consciences for his good behaviour amongst them: YE KNOW: Happy minister, that has. throne in the consciences of his people, unto which he can and...