Paul — In this epistle St. Paul neither uses the title of an apostle, nor any other, as writing to pious and simple — hearted men, with the utmost familiarity. There is a peculiar sweetness in this epistle, unmixed with any sharpness or reproof: those evils which the apostles afterward reproved havi... [ Continue Reading ]
Remembering in the sight of God — That is, praising him for it. Your work of faith — Your active, ever — working faith. And labour of love — Love continually labouring for the bodies or souls of men. They who do not thus labour, do not love. Faith works, love labours, hope patiently suffers all thin... [ Continue Reading ]
Knowing your election — Which is through faith, by these plain proofs.... [ Continue Reading ]
With power — Piercing the very heart with a sense of sin and deeply convincing you of your want of a Saviour from guilt, misery, and eternal ruin. With the Holy Ghost — Bearing an outward testimony, by miracles, to the truth of what we preached, and you felt: also by his descent through laying on of... [ Continue Reading ]
Though in much affliction, yet with much joy.... [ Continue Reading ]
For from you the word sounded forth — (Thessalonica being a city of great commerce.) Being echoed, as it were, from you. And your conversion was divulged far beyond Macedonia and Achaia. So that we need not speak anything — Concerning it.... [ Continue Reading ]
For they themselves — The people wherever we come.... [ Continue Reading ]
Whom he hath raised from the dead — In proof of his future coming to judgment. Who delivereth us — He redeemed us once; he delivers us continually; and will deliver all that believe from the wrath, the eternal vengeance, which will then come upon the ungodly.... [ Continue Reading ]