Text -- 1 Thessalonians 2:18 (NET)

2:18 For we wanted to come to you (I, Paul, in fact tried again and again) but Satan thwarted us.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: 1Th 2:18

¹ tn Or “several times”; Grk, “both once and twice.” The literal expression “once and twice” is frequently used as a Greek idiom referring to an indefinite low number, but more than once (“several times”); see L&N 60.70.