Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)

1 Thessalonians 2:7

1 Thessalonians 2:7. But introduces the positive side of Paul's account of his demeanour.

Gentle, not severe, distant, official, imperious.

Among you, with some allusion to the familiarity of his con' verse with them; he made himself their equal.

Nurse, i.e. nursing mother. Paul had aimed only at their good, and not at his own advantage, and had therefore put up with affronts and indignities, had borne with their slowness, had looked for no immediate reward or acknowledgment, had watched and worked for them regardless of results to himself.

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