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Verse 1 Thessalonians 3:5. _FOR THIS CAUSE_] Knowing that you would be
persecuted, and knowing that your apostasy was possible, _I sent to
know your_ _faith_-whether you continued steadfast in the tru...
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FOR THIS CAUSE - Since I knew that you were so liable to be
persecuted, and since I feared that some might be turned from the
truth by this opposition.
WHEN I COULD NO LONGER FORBEAR - See the notes...
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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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FOR THIS CAUSE. On account of (App-104. 1 Thessalonians 3:2) this.
KNOW. App-132.
LEST, &C. Greek. _me pos._
HAVE. Omit.
IN VAIN. See 1 Thessalonians 2:1, and compare...
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_For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your
faith_ Rather, I ALSO, NO LONGER ENDURING IT, SENT, &c. St Paul
repeats what he said in 1 Thessalonians 3:1, but in a different
man...
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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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ΤΗΝ ΥΜΩΝ ΠΙΣΤΙΝ (WH, _margin_), B 37 73 116: this (for
Paul) unusual order (cf. e.g. 1 Thessalonians 3:2; 1 Thessalonians
3:6) may be original. On the other hand, 1 Thessalonians 3:7 m
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§ 5. 1 Thessalonians 2:17 TO 1 Thessalonians 3:5. The Separation of
the Apostles from their Converts
After the pause for thanksgiving to God, which in its turn led up to
the stern denunciation of Jewi...
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ΔΙΆ ΤΟΎΤΟ (G1223; G3778) по этой причине,
ΚΆΓΏ (G2504) я также (Morris). Может также
значить "В самом деле я послал..." или
"именно поэтому я послал..." (IBG, 167).
ΣΤΈΓΩΝ _praes. act. part._ (причи...
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TEXT (1 Thessalonians 3:5)
5 FOR THIS CAUSE I ALSO, WHEN I COULD NO LONGER FORBEAR, SENT THAT I
MIGHT KNOW YOUR FAITH, LEST BY ANY MEANS THE TEMPTER HAD TEMPTED YOU,
AND OUR LABOR SHOULD BE IN VAIN....
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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.
FOR THIS CAUSE - because I know your "tribula...
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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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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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FOR THIS CAUSE. — “Because I knew that temptation was sure to
overtake you, I sent to see whether our work still lived, and was
likely to live, in spite of it.”
TO KNOW YOUR FAITH. — “To ascertain wh...
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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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Resuming the thought of 1 Thessalonians 3:1-3 _a_, after the
parenthetical digression of 3 _b_, 4, but adding a fresh reason for
the mission of Timothy, _viz._, the apostle's desire to have his
person...
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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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PAUL'S CONCERN FOR THEIR FAITH
Because he had been forced to leave Thessalonica and prevented from
returning, he reached a point where his concern for the church made
him decide to be left in Athens a...
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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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5_Lest perhaps the tempter has tempted you_. By this term he teaches
us that temptations are always to be dreaded, because it is the proper
office of Satan to _tempt_. As, however, he never ceases to...
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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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FOR THIS CAUSE, WHEN I COULD NO LONGER FORBEAR,.... Or "bear" the
above vehement desire of seeing them, or of hearing from them. Here
the apostle speaks in the singular number, and seems to intimate,...
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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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THE TEMPTER; Satan.
HAVE TEMPTED YOU; to deny Christ....
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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 LABOR
BE IN VAIN....
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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 sent to help them, 3:1-5
1 WHEREFORE WHEN WE COULD NO LONGER FORBEAR, WE THOUGHT IT GOOD TO BE
LEFT AT ATHENS ALONE;
2 And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our
fellowlab...
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“FOR THIS CAUSE. ALSO, WHEN. COULD NO LONGER FORBEAR, SENT THAT.
MIGHT KNOW YOUR FAITH, LEST BY ANY MEANS THE TEMPTER HAD TEMPTED YOU,
AND OUR LABOR SHOULD BE IN VAIN”
“For this cause. also”: “There...
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1-5 The more we find pleasure in the ways of God, the more we shall
desire to persevere therein. The apostle's design was to establish and
comfort the Thessalonians as to the object of their faith, t...
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The apostle here gives a further account of the reason why he sent
Timothy to them, which was TO KNOW their FAITH, whether it continued
stedfast under all their sufferings and temptations. He feared S...
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For this cause [because he feared that persecution might cause them to
apostatize] _I also, when I could no longer forbear_ [resuming the
thought of verse 1], _sent that I might know your faith, lest...
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1 Thessalonians 3:5 this G5124 reason G1223 I G2504 could G4722 longer
G3371 endure G4722 (G5723) sent G399
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‘For this reason I also, when I could no longer forbear, sent that I
might know your faith, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you
and our labour should be in vain.'
The change to the first per...
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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 3:5. FOR THIS CAUSE, _i.e._ on account of these
afflictions which had fallen upon you....
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THAT I MIGHT KNOW
(εις το γνωνα). Paul's common idiom (verse 1 Thessalonians
3:2), εις το and the infinitive of purpose (second aorist
ingressive active of γινωσκω, come to know).LEST BY ANY MEANS...
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1 Thessalonians 3:1
I. The purpose of Timothy's mission to the Thessalonians was to
establish, to make them steadfast in the midst of persecution, to make
them rooted and grounded in love, to make the...
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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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SURELY IT COULD NOT BE. There was a real possibility the false
teachers might succeed in convincing them that Paul really did not
love them, and there was no reality to the salvation which Paul
preach...
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1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 3:5 TEMPTER. Satan tempted
Jesus (Matthew 4:1) and he tempts Christians ...
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_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_
1 Thessalonians 3:3. THAT NO MAN SHOULD BE MOVED.—The word seems to
imply “moved to softness,” as Professor Jowett intimates. It is
used especially of the motion of a...
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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 7:5; 1 Thessalonians 2:1; 1 Thessalonians 3:1; 1
Thessalonians 3:2;...
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The tempter [ο π ε ι ρ α ζ ω ν]. Only here and Matthew 4:3.
LXX See on Matthew 6:13.
In vain [ε ι ς κ ε ν ο ν]. The phrase only in Paul. See 2
Corinthians 6:1;...
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Observe here, 1. One special end why St. Paul sent Timothy to
Thessalonica, it was to know their faith, that is, their constancy in
the faith; for he had. fear upon him lest Satan the tempter had take...