Justin Edwards' Family Bible NT (1851)
1 Thessalonians 1:8
The word of the Lord; as manifested in your lives. Verses 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10.
The word of the Lord; as manifested in your lives. Verses 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10.
Verse 8. _FROM YOU SOUNDED OUT_] As Thessalonica vas very conveniently situated for traffic, many merchants from thence traded through Macedonia, Achaia, and different parts of Greece. By these, the...
FOR FROM YOU SOUNDED OUT THE WORD OF THE LORD - The truths of religion were thus spread abroad. The word rendered “sounded out” - ἐξήχηται exēchētai - refers to the sounding of a trumpet (Bloomfie...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS THE CHURCH OF THE THESSALONIANS AND ITS BLESSED CONDITION CHAPTER 1 _ 1. Greetings and thanksgiving 1 Thessalonians 1:1)_ 2. The gospel and its blessed fruits 1 Thessalon...
THANKSGIVING FOR THE PAST. As in all his epistles except Gal., Paul commences with a paragraph of congratulation, singling out for special praise the work of faith, the labour of love, and the patienc...
LOVE'S INTRODUCTION (1 Thessalonians 1:1-10) Paul and Silas and Timothy send this letter to the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be to you and pe...
SOUNDED OUT. Greek. _execheomai._ Only here. Compare Luke 4:37, and 1 Corinthians 13:1. ALSO. The texts omit. TO GOD-WARD. towards (App-104.) God. IS SPREAD ABROAD. has gone forth. SPEAK. App-121....
_For from you sounded out the word of the Lord_ Better, HATH SOUNDED OUT, or RESOUNDED. The Greek word suggests a clear ringing note, "as of a trumpet" (Chrysostom); and the tense (perfect) implies no...
8. On the other hand, אACDGP, &c., latt vg, insert ΕΝ ΤΗΙ before ΑΧΑΙΑΙ, copying 1 Thessalonians 1:7; while B 17 37 47 sah cop preserve the shorter reading. On the grammatical difference see Expositor...
§ 2. 1 Thessalonians 1:2-10. Thanksgiving for the Thessalonian Church This εὐχαριστία is one long sentence spun out in a continuous thread (cf. Ephesians 1:3-14; and see _Introd._ p. lix.). It affords...
ΈΞΉΧΗΤΑΙ _perf. ind. pass. от_ ΈΞΗΧΈΩ (G1837) греметь, звучать. Слово обозначает громовой удар или звук трубы (Moore; Lightfoot; Milligan; GELTS, 160). Хотя метафора неясна, это слово обозначает звук,...
FOR FROM YOU SOUNDED OUT THE WORD— It was accounted a great honour for any church, or city, to have the gospel go out from thence. Grotius observes, that many of the Thessalonians were merchants, who...
TEXT (1 Thessalonians 1:8) 8 FOR FROM YOU HATH SOUNDED FORTH THE WORD OF THE LORD, NOT ONLY _IN_ MACEDONIA AND ACHAIA, BUT IN EVERY PLACE YOUR FAITH TO GOD-WARD IS GONE FORTH; SO THAT WE NEED NOT TO...
For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing. FROM YOU SOU...
PAUL'S THANKSGIVING 2 This is the pattern pastoral epistle. Paul's deep concern leads him to constant prayer for them, for he knows their need and has been torn from them before it was possible for h...
SALUTATION AND THANKSGIVING 1. Salutation. For Silvanus (Silas) see Acts 15:22; Acts 16:20; Acts 16:37; Acts 16:38. Timothy was one of St. Paul's most const
TO SPEAK ANYTHING] i.e. to recount their faith....
WHEN JESUS CHRIST COMES 1 THE THESSALONIANS _IAN MACKERVOY_ ABOUT THE LETTER 1. THE WRITERS This letter is from Paul, Silas and Timothy. From these three, the *apostle Paul was the main author....
FOR. — “For, in fact,” (supporting and exceeding the statement of 1 Thessalonians 1:7 about Greece) “you form the centre from which the doctrine of Christ has rung (not _rang_) out like a trumpet thro...
CHAPTER 3 THE SIGNS OF ELECTION 1 Thessalonians 1:5 (R.V.) THE Revised Version renders the οτι, with which ver. 5 begins, "how that," the Authorised Version, "for." In the first case, the Apostle is...
ἡ πίστις … ἐξελ. (Romans 10:18), by anacoluthon, reiterates for emphasis ἀφʼ ὑμῶν … κυρίου (ὁ λόγος τ. Κ. depending for its effectiveness on the definite testimony of Christians). Paul is dictating lo...
_Thanksgiving for the origin and achievements of the church_. 1 Thessalonians 1:2. Whenever Paul was at his prayers, he remembered his friends at Thessalonica; and whenever he recalled them his first...
IMITATORS AND EXAMPLES 1 Thessalonians 1:1 This chapter abounds in thanksgiving; and the Apostle recites the many beautiful and hopeful traits of character and behavior by which the members of this C...
This letter was intended as a message of comfort and instruction to those who were in the midst of persecution. In writing, the apostle associated himself with Silas and Timothy. He commenced by refer...
THE RECEPTION THE THESSALONIANS GAVE THE GOSPEL Paul indicated his attitude toward others following him in 1 Corinthians 11:1. He only wanted others to follow him as he followed Christ (1 Peter 2:21)....
_From you was spread abroad the word. [2] The Greek, was sounded about. --- In every place. In very many places. (Witham)_ [BIBLIOGRAPHY] Diffamatus est, _Greek: exechetai. Insonuit, St. John Chryso...
(4) Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God. (5) For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men w...
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...
8_For from you sounded forth_. Here we have an elegant metaphor, by which he intimates that their faith was so lively, (507) that it did, as it were, by its _sound_, arouse other nations. For he says...
The apostle, in declaring (as was his custom) that which he felt respecting them the aspect in which they appeared to his heart and mind, speaks neither of gifts, as to the Corinthians, nor of the gra...
FOR FROM YOU SOUNDED OUT THE WORD OF THE LORD,.... By which is meant the Gospel, and is so called because it is from the Lord, as the author of it: and it is of the Lord, as the subject of it; and it...
For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing. Ver. 8. _For f...
_Ye became followers of us_ Obedient to our directions, and imitators of our example; _and of the Lord_ also Both in the holiness of your lives, and in the courage and patience with which you endured...
A RECOMMENDATION OF THE CONGREGATION'S ATTITUDE....
FOR FROM YOU SOUNDED OUT THE WORD OF THE LORD NOT ONLY IN MACEDONIA AND ACHAIA, BUT ALSO IN EVERY PLACE YOUR FAITH TO GOD-WARD IS SPREAD ABROAD, SO THAT WE NEED NOT TO SPEAK ANYTHING....
Only in the two epistles to the Thessalonians does Paul include the names of his two co-workers, Silas and Timothy, in his addressing them. Also only in these does he refrain from designating himself...
II. Review of the history of the Thessalonian church, 1:2-10 A. Their faithfulness, 1:2-3 2 WE GIVE THANKS TO GOD ALWAYS FOR YOU ALL, MAKING MENTION OF YOU IN OUR PRAYERS; 3 Remembering without cea...
C. They had been active in sounding out the word, 1:8-10 8 FOR FROM YOU SOUNDED OUT THE WORD OF THE LORD NOT ONLY IN MACEDONIA AND ACHAIA, BUT ALSO IN EVERY PLACE YOUR FAITH TO GOD-WARD IS SPREAD ABR...
“FOR FROM YOU HATH SOUNDED FORTH THE WORD OF THE LORD, NOT ONLY IN MACEDONIA AND ACHAIA, BUT IN EVERY PLACE YOUR FAITH TO GOD-WARD IS GONE FORTH; SO THAT WE NEED NOT TO SPEAK ANYTHING” “For”: Besides...
6-10 When careless, ignorant, and immoral persons are turned from their carnal pursuits and connexions, to believe in and obey the Lord Jesus, to live soberly, righteously, and godly, the matter spea...
OLBGrk; How could they be examples to persons so remote, amongst whom they had no converse? The apostle here resolves it. It was by way of report. Things that are eminent, and done in eminent places,...
For from you hath sounded forth [as the sonorous, soul-stirring blast of a trumpet] _the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia_ [after its subjection by the Romans, all Greece was divided...
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‘So that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and Achaia, for from you has sounded out the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith towards Go...
_Paul thankfully acknowledges the Genuineness and Striking Characteristics of the Conversion of the Thessalonians_ It is merely for convenience' sake the first three Chapter s are divided. They really...
1 Thessalonians 1:8. FOR. Paul proceeds to confirm and amplify the assertion of 1 Thessalonians 1:7. HATH SOUNDED OUT THE WORD OF THE LORD. The word rendered _sounded out_ is used in Sir 40:13, with...
FROM YOU HATH SOUNDED FORTH (αφ' υμων εξηχητα). Perfect passive indicative of εξηχεω, late compound verb (εξ, ηχοσ, ηχω, ηχη, our echo) to sound out of a trumpet or of thunder, to reverberate like o...
1 Thessalonians 1:7 I. The Thessalonian converts, having received the Gospel so heartily and held it so firmly, and having shown the influence which it exerted over their hearts and lives by their joy...
1 Thessalonians 1:1. _Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father...
CONTENTS: The model church. Three tenses of the Christian life. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Silvanus, Timothy. CONCLUSION: Those who have embraced the full Gospel, as proclaimed by t...
1 Thessalonians 1:1. _Paul and Silvanus._ The latter is so denominated in other passages of scripture, that being the name by which he was known to the gentiles. 2 Corinthians 1:19; 2 Thessalonians 1:...
WENT OUT FROM YOU. Thessalonica became an important center for spreading the Good News. The effect of Christ on the Thessalonians created great interest among others. THAT WE NEED TO SAY. Wherever he...
_So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia _ CHRISTIAN EXAMPLE AND CHARACTER I. Christian example. 1. Christians are first followers, then leaders; first imitators and t...
_And ye became followers of us and of the Lord _ FOLLOWERS OF THE APOSTLES AND OF THE LORD This is a very interesting and beautiful account of the triumph of the truth and the progress of religion i...
_For our gospel came not unto you in word only -_ THE COMING OF THE GOSPEL AND ITS EFFECTS I. The manner in which the gospel should come to a people. 1. In word. (1) In the word written. It is of...
1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 1:5 BECAUSE. Paul bases his confidence that the Thessalonians are elect on two things: the authenticity and authority of those preaching the gospel to them (v....
1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 1:2 Thanksgiving and Encouragement. It is typical for Paul to include a word of thanksgiving near the beginning of his letters ...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Thessalonians 1:6. FOLLOWERS OF US AND OF THE LORD.—R.V. “imitators.” St. Paul begs his Corinthian readers to imitate him, _even as_ he imitates Christ. The same tho...
EXPOSITION CONTENTS.—Paul, after the address and salutation, testifies that he renders constant thanks to God for the Thessalonians, calling to remembrance their faith, love, and hope, being assured o...
Let's turn to first Thessalonians. Paul, the apostle, on his second missionary journey had taken Silas with him, who was commended by the church in Jerusalem as one of the leaders. When they got to De...
1 Corinthians 14:36; 2 Corinthians 3:4; 2 Thessalonians 1:4; 2 Thessalonians 3:1;...
Hath sounded forth [ε ξ η χ η τ α ι]. N. T. o. LXX Joel 3:14; Sir. 40 13, of thunder; 3 Macc. 3 2, of a report. It means a loud, unmistakable proclamation. The word of the Lord [ο λ ο γ ο ς τ ο υ κ υ...
THE MODEL CHURCH 1 Thessalonians 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS On this earth we may expect to find no church model in all things. Even the Twelve had a traitor, and yet they were nourished and taught by t...
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 ne...
Still our apostle proceeds in. copious commendation of these Thessalonians, or rather in. thankful admiration of the grace of God shining in them; he tells them, and that without flattery, that the fa...