Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)
1 Thessalonians 3:4
Cf. Acts 17:3; Acts 17:6; Acts 17:13 f.
Cf. Acts 17:3; Acts 17:6; Acts 17:13 f.
Verse 1 Thessalonians 3:4. _THAT WE SHOULD SUFFER TRIBULATION_] I prepared you for it, because I knew that it was according to their nature for wicked men to persecute the followers of God....
FOR VERILY, WHEN WE WERE WITH YOU, WE TOLD YOU BEFORE ... - It is not mentioned in the history Acts 17 that Paul thus predicted that special trials would come upon them, but there is no improbability...
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...
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...
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...
THE PASTOR AND HIS FLOCK (1 Thessalonians 3:1-10)...
TOLD... BEFORE. foretold. Greek. _prolego._ See 2 Corinthians 13:2. SHOULD. were about to. SUFFER, &C. = be afflicted. Greek. _thlibo_. CAME TO PASS. Add "also"....
_For verily, when we were with you, we told you before_ More precisely, USED TO TELL YOU; this was no single warning, but one repeated and familiar. For other references to the apostles" previous inst...
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...
ΚΑῚ ΓᾺΡ ὍΤΕ ΠΡῸΣ ὙΜΑ͂Σ ἯΜΕΝ, ΠΡΟΕΛΈΓΟΜΕΝ κ.τ.λ. In support of the rule just stated, the Apostles recall their own definite and repeated warnings. For εἰμὶ πρός—the “with” of personal converse—cf. 2 Th...
§ 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...
ΉΜΕΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть, ΠΡΟΕΛΈΓΟΜΕΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΠΡΟΛΈΓΩ (G4302) говорить заранее, предсказывать. Предложное сочетание имеет предсказательное значение, в то время как _im...
TEXT (1 Thessalonians 3:3-4) 3 THAT NO MAN BE MOVED _BY_ THESE AFFLICTIONS; FOR YOURSELVES KNOW THAT HEREUNTO WE ARE APPOINTED. 4 FOR VERILY, WHEN WE WERE WITH YOU, WE TOLD YOU BEFOREHAND THAT WE ARE...
For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know. THAT WE SHOULD SUFFER - `that we are (sure) to suffer' by the appoint...
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...
3:4 be (e-16) Or 'we are to be,' that is, such is the lot of Christians; but 'told you beforehand' seems to make it applicable to the Thessalonians. I suspect both were in the apostle's mind; but it i...
THE APOSTLE'S ANXIETY ABOUT HIS CONVERTS 1. Forbear] better, 'endure the suspense.'...
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...
FOR VERILY, WHEN... — To appreciate the nature of the argument, see the passages referred to in the margin....
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...
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...
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...
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...
(3) That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto. (4) For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation;...
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...
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...
FOR, VERILY, WHEN WE WERE WITH YOU,.... In presence, in person, as they then were in heart and affection; when they were first among them, and preached the Gospel to them: WE TOLD YOU BEFORE; before...
For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know. Ver. 4. _We told you before_] Darts foreseen are dintless: premonition i...
VARIOUS PROOFS OF PAUL'S LOVE FOR THE THESSALONIANS He sent Timothy to them as his representative:...
FOR VERILY, WHEN WE WERE WITH YOU, WE TOLD YOU BEFORE THAT WE SHOULD SUFFER TRIBULATION; EVEN AS IT CAME TO PASS AND YE KNOW. Paul had protested his love for the Thessalonian Christians in the stronge...
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...
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...
“FOR VERILY, WHEN WE WERE WITH YOU, WE TOLD YOU BEFOREHAND THAT WE ARE TO SUFFER AFFLICTION; EVEN AS IT CAME TO PASS, AND YE KNOW” “Verily”: “Indeed” (NASV). “WHEN WE WERE WITH YOU”: “The tense of th...
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...
The apostle having said that they knew they were appointed to sufferings, tells them here they knew it because he had told them of it. Paul, by some extraordinary instinct or revelation, often foresaw...
For verily, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction; even as it came to pass, and ye know. [As to the affliction which Paul foretold and which came upon them, se...
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‘For truly when we were with you we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.' Paul reinforces his statements by reminding them that they had continuall...
_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....
1 Thessalonians 3:4. WE TOLD YOU BEFORE. Paul had not sought to win adherents to the faith by veiling the hardships of the Christian life. It is better that beginners should count the cost and deliber...
WE TOLD YOU BEFOREHAND (προελεγομεν υμιν). Imperfect active, we used to tell you beforehand. Old verb, rare in N.T. (only in Paul).THAT WE ARE TO SUFFER PERSECUTION (οτ μελλομεν θλιβεσθα). Μελλω...
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...
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...
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....
WE TOLD YOU AHEAD OF TIME. He had prepared them for the persecution which would come. (Compare notes on Revelation 6:3-6.)...
1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 3:3 Paul sent Timothy to strengthen the persecuted Thessalonians (see 2 Thessalonians 1:5). we are destined
_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...
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...
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...
1 Thessalonians 2:14; 1 Thessalonians 2:2; 2 Corinthians 8:1; 2 Corinthians 8:2;...
Our apostle informed the Thessalonians in the foregoing verse, with the purpose and decree of God concerning the afflictions which were before them; in this verse he appeals to themselves, as to his o...