McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries
1 Thessalonians 2:15
who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and please not God, and are contrary to all men;
who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and please not God, and are contrary to all men;
1 THESSALONIANS 2:15 profh,taj {A} The Textus Receptus reads ivdi,ouj profh,taj, following a variety of secondary witnesses (Dc K Y most minuscules syrp, h goth _al_). Whether these somehow derived t...
Verse 15. 16. _WHO HATH KILLED THE LORD JESUS_, c.] What a finished but just character is this of the Jews! 1. _They slew the_ _Lord Jesus_, through the most unprincipled and fell malice. 2. They _k...
WHO BOTH KILLED THE LORD JESUS - see the notes on Acts 2:23. The meaning here is, that it was characteristic of the Jews to be engaged in the work of persecution, and that they should not regard it as...
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 AND THE THESSALONIAN CHURCH. The next two paragraphs describe (_a)_ the effect of Paul's preaching at Thessalonica, (_b)_ his anxiety with regard to the fate of the Church under stress of persecu...
And for this, too, we thank God, that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it, not as the word of men, but--as in truth it is--as the word of God, who also works in...
PAUL ON HIS DEFENSE (1 Thessalonians 2:1-12)...
LORD. App-98. JESUS. even Jesus. App-98. THEIR OWN. the. PROPHETS. App-189. HAVE PERSECUTED US. = chased us out. Greek. _ekdioko._ Only here and Luke 11:49....
_who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets_ Revised reading, simply THE PROPHETS. Christ represented His death as the culmination of the murders of the ancient prophets (Luke 11:47-52; L...
section iii Jewish Persecutors of the Church. Ch. 1 Thessalonians 2:13-16 This short paragraph is of peculiar interest. The Apostle was at the time exposed in his Gentile mission to the bitterest pe...
15. ιδιους (before ΠΡΟΦΗΤΑΣ): a Syrian insertion. 15. ΤΩ͂Ν ΚΑῚ ΤῸΝ ΚΎΡΙΟΝ�, _who both killed the Lord, even Jesus_. To have “slain _the Lord_,” who bears the title of God, “Him whom they were bound to...
§ 4. 1 Thessalonians 2:13-16. Fellowship in Persecution with the Judæan Churches The rich fruits of the Gospel in the Thessalonian Church, for which the writers thank God (§ 2), led them to dwell, in...
ΆΠΟΚΤΕΙΝΆΝΤΩΝ _aor. act. part. от_ ΆΠΟΚΤΕΊΝΩ (G615) убивать, ΈΚΔΙΩΞΆΝΤΩΝ _aor. act. part. (adj.) от_ ΕΚΔΙΏΚΩ (G1559) охотиться, гнать, преследовать. Предложное сочетание может значить изгонять с цель...
WHO BOTH KILLED, &C.— _Who have both killed the Lord Jesus, and the,_ or _his_ prophets. Mill, and Wetstein. Not only _heathen authors_ have given the Jews the character of being an obstinate, prejudi...
TEXT (1 Thessalonians 2:15-16) 15 WHO BOTH KILLED THE LORD JESUS AND THE PROPHETS, AND DROVE OUT US, AND PLEASE NOT GOD, AND ARE CONTRARY TO ALL MEN; 16 FORBIDDING US TO SPEAK TO THE GENTILES THAT TH...
Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: THE LORD JESUS, [ Ton (G3588) Kurion (G2962) Ieesoun (G2424)] -...
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...
WHO BOTH KILLED. — A tremendous invective against the Jews, the purpose of which is (1) to show the deep sympathy of St. Paul with the persecuted Thessalonians, and his indignation against the persecu...
CHAPTER 6 IMPEACHMENT OF THE JEWS 1 Thessalonians 2:13 (R.V.) THESE verses complete the treatment of the subject with which this chapter opens. The Apostle has drawn a moving picture of his life and...
_Further thanksgiving for their endurance of trial_....
“The Lord, even Jesus” (_cf._ Acts 2:36). προφ. may go either with ἀποκτ. or with ἐκδιωξάντων....
THE APOSTLE'S GLORY AND JOY 1 Thessalonians 2:13 The Christian worker always should wait on God till he gets the word of the message. There is an essential difference between delivering a sermon or a...
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...
THE BRETHREN AND THE JEWS--TWO RESPONSES TO THE GOSPEL There were those unbelievers at Thessalonica who had not been receptive to the truth (Acts 17:11). This may have made Paul even more thankful for...
(13) Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; (14) and they please not God, and are contrary to (i) all men: (13) He prevents an offence which might be taken, b...
(13) В¶ For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God,...
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...
15_Who killed the Lord Jesus_. As that people had been distinguished by so many benefits from God, in consequence of the glory of the ancient fathers, the very name (544) was of great authority among...
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...
WHO BOTH KILLED THE LORD JESUS,.... For though Pilate condemned him to death, and the Roman soldiers executed the sentence, yet it was through the malice and envy of the Jews that he was delivered to...
Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: Ver. 15. _Who both killed the Lord_] And are therefore banished o...
_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 ou...
CONTRARY TO ALL MEN; opposed to them, scorning all Gentiles, and hating even Jews who believe on Christ....
WHO BOTH KILLED THE LORD JESUS AND THEIR OWN PROPHETS, AND HAVE PERSECUTED US; AND THEY PLEASE NOT GOD, AND ARE CONTRARY TO ALL MEN,...
THE MANNER IN WHICH THE THESSALONIANS RECEIVED THE GOSPEL They accepted the Gospel and bore its burdens:...
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...
C. The preaching was the Word of God, 2:13-16 13 FOR THIS CAUSE ALSO THANK WE GOD WITHOUT CEASING, BECAUSE, WHEN YE RECEIVED THE WORD OF GOD WHICH YE HEARD OF US, YE RECEIVED [IT] NOT [AS] THE WORD O...
PERSECUTED US: Or, chased us out...
“WHO BOTH KILLED THE LORD JESUS AND THE PROPHETS, AND DROVE OUT US, AND PLEASED NOT GOD, AND ARE CONTRARY TO ALL MEN” “Who”: The Jews in Judea, and Paul had been one of those men who was contrary to...
13-16 We should receive the word of God with affections suitable to its holiness, wisdom, truth, and goodness. The words of men are frail and perishing, like themselves, and sometimes false, foolish,...
WHO BOTH KILLED THE LORD JESUS; no wonder then though they have persecuted you, and the believing Jews their countrymen. They killed the Lord Jesus by the hands of Pilate, crying: _Crucify him, crucif...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V The Jews had slain their prophets.[702]...
1 Thessalonians 2:15 killed G615 (G5660) both G2532 Lord G2962 Jesus G2424 and G2532 own G2398 prophets G
‘For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus, for you also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews,...
1 Thessalonians 2:15. WHO KILLED BOTH THE LORD JESUS. As the unbelieving Thessalonians had persecuted their Christian townsmen, so had the Jews persecuted Jesus, and the prophets and the apostles. The...
_Paul appeals to their Endurance of the Persecution in proof of the Genuine efficacy of their Reception of the Word of God._ Paul again gives thanks for the reception which the Thessalonians had accor...
WHO BOTH KILLED THE LORD JESUS AND THE PROPHETS (των κα τον Κυριον αποκτειναντων Ιησουν κα τους προφητας). First aorist active participle of αποκτεινω. Vivid justification of his praise of the churc...
1 Thessalonians 2:13 I. In this passage the Apostle states the evidence of the effectual working of the word in the Thessalonian converts. The change it had wrought in them was genuine, for it withsto...
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...
WHO KILLED THE LORD JESUS. Not all the Jews, but a certain element was responsible for killing Jesus (Matthew 27:25). The false teachers here may have said that since the Jews, who were Jesus' own peo...
1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 2:15 DROVE US OUT. See Acts 17:5. OPPOSE ALL MANKIND. Everyone needs to hear the gospel o
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Thessalonians 2:15. WHO BOTH KILLED.—The New Testament form of the verb is always compound—as we should say, “killed off.” A tragic contrast to what might have been...
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 Corinthians 10:5; Acts 12:3; Acts 2:23; Acts 22:18; Acts 3:15;...
Persecuted [ε κ δ ι ω ξ α ν τ ω ν]. Rev. more literally and correctly, drave out. The word only here, though it occurs as an alternative reading, Luke 11:49. Probably with special reference to his own...
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...
Us — Apostles and preachers of the gospel. They please not God — Nor are they even careful to please him, notwithstanding their fair professions. And are contrary to all men — Are common enemies of ma...
Our apostle's design being to encourage the Thessalonians to patience and constancy under their persecutions for Christianity, he acquaints them, that they did not walk alone in this thorny path, but...