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Text -- 2 Thessalonians 1:4 (NET)

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1:4 As a result we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions you are enduring.
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Robertson: 2Th 1:4 - -- So that ( hōste ). Another example of hōste and the infinitive (enkauchāsthai ) for result as in 1Th 1:7 which see.

So that ( hōste ).

Another example of hōste and the infinitive (enkauchāsthai ) for result as in 1Th 1:7 which see.

Robertson: 2Th 1:4 - -- We ourselves ( autous hēmas ). Accusative of general reference with the infinitive, but not merely hēmās (or heautous ), perhaps in contrast...

We ourselves ( autous hēmas ).

Accusative of general reference with the infinitive, but not merely hēmās (or heautous ), perhaps in contrast with en humin (in you), as much as to say, "so that we ourselves, contrary to your expectations, are boasting"(Frame). Enkauchaomai occurs here alone in N.T., but is found in the lxx and in Aesop’ s Fables , proof enough of its vernacular use. Paul was not above praising one church to other churches, to provoke them to good works. Here he is boasting of Thessalonica in Macedonia to the Corinthians as he did later to the Corinthians about the collection (2Co 8:1-15) after having first boasted to the Macedonians about the Corinthians (2Co 9:1-5). There were other churches in Achaia besides Corinth (2Co 1:1).

Robertson: 2Th 1:4 - -- For ( huper ). Over, about, like peri (1Th 1:2).

For ( huper ).

Over, about, like peri (1Th 1:2).

Robertson: 2Th 1:4 - -- In all your persecutions ( en pasin tois diōgmois humōn ). Their patience and faith had already attracted Paul’ s attention (1Th 1:3) and th...

In all your persecutions ( en pasin tois diōgmois humōn ).

Their patience and faith had already attracted Paul’ s attention (1Th 1:3) and their tribulations thlipsesin (1Th 1:6). Here Paul adds the more specific term diōgmos , old word from diōkō , to chase, to pursue, a word used by Paul of his treatment in Corinth (2Co 12:10).

Robertson: 2Th 1:4 - -- Which ye endure ( hais anechesthe ). B here reads enechesthe , to be entangled in, to be held in as in Gal 5:1, but anechesthe is probably correct ...

Which ye endure ( hais anechesthe ).

B here reads enechesthe , to be entangled in, to be held in as in Gal 5:1, but anechesthe is probably correct and the hais is probably attracted to locative case of thlipsesin from the ablative hōn after anechesthe , from which ye hold yourselves back (cf. Col 3:13).

Vincent: 2Th 1:4 - -- Glory ( ἐνκαυχᾶσθαι ) N.T.o . The simple verb καυχᾶσθαι to boast , and the kindred nouns καύχημα ground ...

Glory ( ἐνκαυχᾶσθαι )

N.T.o . The simple verb καυχᾶσθαι to boast , and the kindred nouns καύχημα ground of boasting , and καύχησις act of boasting , are favorites with Paul.

Wesley: 2Th 1:4 - -- "That ye may be accounted worthy of the kingdom."

"That ye may be accounted worthy of the kingdom."

JFB: 2Th 1:4 - -- Make our boast of you, literally, "in your case." "Ourselves" implies that not merely did they hear others speaking of the Thessalonians' faith, but t...

Make our boast of you, literally, "in your case." "Ourselves" implies that not merely did they hear others speaking of the Thessalonians' faith, but they, the missionaries themselves, boasted of it. Compare 1Th 1:8, wherein the apostle said, their faith was so well known in various places, that he and his fellow missionaries had no need to speak of it; but here he says, so abounding is their love, combined with faith and patience, that he and his fellow missionaries themselves, make it a matter of glorying in the various churches elsewhere (he was now at Corinth in Achaia, and boasted there of the faith of the Macedonian churches, 2Co 10:15-17; 2Co 8:1, at the same time giving the glory to the Lord), not only looking forward to glorying thereat at Christ's coming (1Th 2:19), but doing so even now.

JFB: 2Th 1:4 - -- In 1Th 1:3, "patience of hope." Here hope is tacitly implied as the ground of their patience; 2Th 1:5, 2Th 1:7 state the object of their hope, namely,...

In 1Th 1:3, "patience of hope." Here hope is tacitly implied as the ground of their patience; 2Th 1:5, 2Th 1:7 state the object of their hope, namely, the kingdom for which they suffer.

JFB: 2Th 1:4 - -- Literally, "pressures." The Jews were the instigators of the populace and of the magistrates against Christians (Act 17:6, Act 17:8).

Literally, "pressures." The Jews were the instigators of the populace and of the magistrates against Christians (Act 17:6, Act 17:8).

JFB: 2Th 1:4 - -- Greek, "are (now) enduring."

Greek, "are (now) enduring."

Clarke: 2Th 1:4 - -- We ourselves glory in you in the Churches of God - We hold you up as an example of what the grace of God, can produce when communicated to honest an...

We ourselves glory in you in the Churches of God - We hold you up as an example of what the grace of God, can produce when communicated to honest and faithful hearts

Clarke: 2Th 1:4 - -- For your patience and faith - From Act 17:5, Act 17:13, and from 1Th 2:14, we learn, that the people of Thessalonica had suffered much persecution, ...

For your patience and faith - From Act 17:5, Act 17:13, and from 1Th 2:14, we learn, that the people of Thessalonica had suffered much persecution, both from the Jews and their own countrymen; but being thoroughly convinced of the truth of the Gospel, and feeling it to be the power of God unto salvation, no persecution could turn them aside from it. And having suffered for the truth, it was precious to them. Persecution never essentially injured the genuine Church of God.

Calvin: 2Th 1:4 - -- 4.So that we ourselves glory in you. He could not have bestowed higher commendation upon them, than by saying that he sets them forward before other ...

4.So that we ourselves glory in you. He could not have bestowed higher commendation upon them, than by saying that he sets them forward before other Churches as a pattern, for such is the meaning of those words: — We glory in you in the presence of other Churches. For Paul did not boast of the faith of the Thessalonians from a spirit of ambition, but inasmuch as his commendation of them might be an incitement to make it their endeavor to imitate them. He does not say, however, that he glories in their faith and love, but in their patience and faith. Hence it follows, that patience is the fruit and evidence of faith. These words ought, therefore, to be explained in this manner: — “We glory in the patience which springs from faith, and we bear witness that it eminently shines forth in you;” otherwise the context would not correspond. And, undoubtedly, there is nothing that sustains us in tribulations as faith does; which is sufficiently manifest from this, that we altogether sink down so soon as the promises of God leave us. Hence, the more proficiency any one makes in faith, he will be so much the more endued with patience for enduring all things with fortitude, as on the other hand, softness and impatience under adversity betoken unbelief on our part; but more especially when persecutions are to be endured for the gospel, the influence of faith in that case discovers itself.

Defender: 2Th 1:4 - -- The tribulations which all saints, in all ages, must endure (not just in the last generation - Act 14:22; 2Ti 3:12) are from men. The future tribulati...

The tribulations which all saints, in all ages, must endure (not just in the last generation - Act 14:22; 2Ti 3:12) are from men. The future tribulation visited on rebellious men, however, will be from God (2Th 1:6). They are not the same. In fact, our present tribulations can be considered a blessing since we are therefore enabled to share, in small measure, the sufferings of Christ (2Th 1:5; Phi 1:29; Phi 3:10; 2Co 1:5)."

TSK: 2Th 1:4 - -- glory : 2Co 7:14, 2Co 9:2, 2Co 9:4; 1Th 2:19 your patience : 2Th 3:5; Rom 2:7, Rom 5:3-5, Rom 8:25, Rom 12:12; 1Th 1:3, 1Th 3:2-8; Heb 6:15, Heb 10:36...

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Barnes: 2Th 1:4 - -- So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God - That is, we mention your example to other churches, and glory in it, as an evidence ...

So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God - That is, we mention your example to other churches, and glory in it, as an evidence of what the gospel is suited to do; see the notes on 1Th 2:19-20; compare the notes on 2Co 9:2.

For your patience - Your patient endurance of trials.

And faith - Fidelity, or constancy. You have shown unwavering confidence in God in your afflictions.

In all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure - See the notes on 1Th 2:14; 1Th 4:13. It would seem from this that the persecutions and trials to which the apostle referred in his First Epistle were still continued.

Poole: 2Th 1:4 - -- In the former verse the apostle gave thanks for them, in this he glories in them; he gave thanks for them to God, and glories in them before men. Wh...

In the former verse the apostle gave thanks for them, in this he glories in them; he gave thanks for them to God, and glories in them before men. Wherein Silvanus and Timotheus are to be understood as joined with him herein. Glorying inclndes in it high estimation of a thing, rejoicing in it, high commendation of it, and applauding ourselves in it; and it must be some great thing, either really or in opinion, and in which some way or other we ourselves are concerned. And glorying is a good or evil according to the matter or object of it. To glory in our wisdom, strength, riches, Jer 9:23 ; to glory in men, 1Co 3:21 , in our own works, Rom 4:2 , in what we have received as if not received, 1Co 4:7 , after the flesh, 2Co 11:18 , or in our shame, Phi 3:19 ; all this glorying is evil. But to glory in God, Isa 41:16 , in his holy name, 1Ch 16:10 , with God’ s inheritance, Psa 106:5 , in the knowledge of the Lord, Jer 9:24 , in the cross of Christ, Gal 6:14 , in tribulation, Rom 5:3 , in Christ Jesus, 1Co 1:31 , in hope, Heb 3:6 , and of the success of the ministry in the church’ s growth, and their faith and patience, as here in the text; all this glorying is good: as elsewhere he boasted or gloried in the Corinthians’ liberality, 2Co 9:2 ; but his glorying in them was not to exalt himself, but to magnify the grace of God, and provoke other churches to imitate them.

In the churches of God where the excellency of grace is known, and the commendation of it will be received and imitated; and not amongst carnal men, who scoff at true goodness. And it was the apostle himself, and Silvanus and Timotheus, that thus gloried in them. It adds to persons’ commendation, when it is by men of great knowledge, wisdom, and goodness. And it was by such as well knew them, and understood their state; and being instruments in their conversion, were more concerned to glory in them than any other apostles or ministers. And their glorying in them, as it respects what he said of them in the former verse, so what he further adds in this, which is their

patience and faith in all their persecutions and tribulations Persecutions are properly sufferings for righteousness’ sake: tribulations, any kind of suffering, as some distinguish. And it seems they had many of both, when he saith all, & c. And yet they endured them, that is, not only suffered them because they could not cast them off, but in the sense of the apostle James, Jam 5:11 : Behold, we count them happy which endure; which is a suffering out of choice, and not mere necessity, as Moses did, Heb 11:25 , when sufferings stand in competition with sin, or the dishonour of the Christian profession. Sufferings in themselves are not desirable, and the apostle did not glory in their sufferings, but in their faith and patience. As he before joined faith and love together, so here faith and patience; and as love springs from faith, so doth Christian patience, whereby it is distinguished from patience as a mere moral virtue found among the heathen, either that of the Stoics, Peripatetics, or Platonists. Faith and patience are well styled the two suffering graces, and therefore here mentioned by the apostle when he mentions their sufferings. Faith as it depends upon God, and sees love under afflictions, believes his promises, looks at the recompence of reward, &c., so it supports under suffering. And patience, as it keeps down passion, and quiets the soul under its burden, makes it to sit lighter, and gives advantage to the exercise of that grace and reason, whereby a Christian is strengthened under his sufferings. Now hereupon the apostle glories in them, as men are apt to do in the heroic acts of great conquerors; or the captain of an army, in the valiant performances of his soldiers.

PBC: 2Th 1:4 - -- 2Th 1:4 2 Thessalonians-Divine Judgment Never Sleeps 2Th 1:4-6 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith...

2Th 1:4

2 Thessalonians-Divine Judgment Never Sleeps

2Th 1:4-6

So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure: Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer: Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; {2Th 1:4-6}

Why suffering for godly people? This question frequently surfaces in terms of a September 11, 2002 event, but it no less appears when an individual believer comes face to face with a catastrophic personal crisis. Sadly many who otherwise demonstrate reasonable faith crumble under pressure and use the event as an excuse for a major pity party.

Still other believers struggle a bit more with the problem. " God is testing me. What does he want me to learn?" Not a bad way to view your problem, but this reaction also falls short of Paul’s primary point in our passage. No doubt God intends to teach us through trials. While we would be quite content with the status quo, he intends to grow us stronger in our faith and in our fellowship with him. Is this the primary purpose for which God allows suffering in our lives, or is it a side benefit to a greater purpose?

It is amazing that we sometimes fall into the " God is testing me" syndrome on the premise that God wants to see how strong we are, how much we can endure. Out of our theological mindset we freely proclaim God’s omniscience, his all-knowingness. Then out of our experiential and sentimental mindset we say that God is testing us with the obvious implication that he actually doesn’t know for sure just how faithful or strong we are in our faith. So which is it? Does he know everything, or doesn’t he? If he is omniscient, he fully knows precisely how strong or weak we are in our faith. He has no need to put us to the test to know our standing. This dichotomy serves as a perfect example of the dangers of sentimental Christianity rather than Biblical Christianity. We freely criticize the New Age movement, and with good reason, but then we fall into the same error of relativistic sentimental religion on which the New Age ideas stand. To grasp the distinction between New Age philosophy and Biblical Christianity, one need only read briefly in Irenaeus’ Against Heresies, a classical second century work that refuted the contemporary gnostic claims to Christian roots. Irenaeus as a youth is reported to have learned his Christian foundations from Polycarp, himself a disciple of the apostle John. In many ways to read the gnostic errors that this giant of our faith confronted echoes much of the modern New Age philosophy’s foundations, further corrupted only by its incorporation of Hindu teachings. Irenaeus’ defended what we call Sola Scriptura, Scripture alone, that the exclusive source of Christian truth is the public writings of the apostles and a few men close to them, the canon of Scripture, not a spurious secret verbal source or " revelation." Irenaeus appeals to Scripture alone as the believer’s source of spiritual knowledge and authority.

So if God has no need to learn how faithful or strong in faith we’ll be in trial, and if his primary design in suffering is not to teach us greater depth in Biblical truth, why does he allow it in our lives? In 2Th 1:4 Paul commends the Thessalonians for their patience and faith in their intense trials. We cannot overlook that first century Christians lived under almost constant threat against their lives and property due to their public faith. " I’m a Christian, but I don’t talk about it" would have shocked these giants in the faith, shocked them with shame that their pretended successors in the noble faith of their Lord Jesus Christ would live in timidity of faith or in ignorance of their Biblical obligation to serve as beacons of spiritual light in a dark world.

Let’s try something novel! Let’s grab Paul by the hand and allow him to lead us where he wants us to go with this nagging question. Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God... What is it that serves as this token, this proof of God’s righteous judgment? And to whom does it serve as a " token" or proof of his righteous judgment? The text flows; it isn’t broken up into bite-size verses that, proverbs-like, stand alone and apart from their contextual setting.

It seems that the context of the passage leads us to consider that suffering Christians are not allowed to endure their trials to enable God to learn something he doesn’t already know. Rather he allows suffering to enable us to learn the power of his grace in our lives. Whether it be Abraham in the Old Testament or you and me today, God sends or allows trials and testing so as to instruct us in the weight of his incredible power.

Patience and faith aren’t the ordinary human response to suffering! They only appear when God is working in the trial and when we respond to him, not to the trial!

Pause and spend a few hours reading the book of Job. Consider particularly the first few chapters where you discover a conversation between God and Satan that Job never knew about. From the beginning God knew how Job would respond to trial. It was Satan, not God, who doubted his faith. Without a question God taught Job many things that he didn’t know before his suffering began. However, what is the point of Scripture with Job’s experience? Jas 5:11 cuts through forty two chapters of the Old Testament narrative and gives us the divine perspective in one simple sentence! God intended the Job’s experience to reveal to us his tender compassion upon his people.

In our lesson it is not the mere presence of suffering that becomes a direct evidence of divine judgment and justice. It is rather the way faithful believers respond to that suffering that magnifies God and gives glory to him! Had the Thessalonians plunged into a sentimental pity-party, wallowing in self-pity and complaint, would their suffering still have applauded God’s righteous judgment? I think not.

What does this lesson teach us? When suffering or unpleasantness invades your life, and rest assured that it will, how will you react? Don’t wait till it happens and then react with shock and disillusionment. Prepare for it every day with intense time in Scripture and in absorbing meditation on its relevance to your life. Don’t merely use the Bible to put yourself to sleep at nights. Use it to wake yourself up in the morning as well! Don’t try to build your whole life outside the light of Scripture with the excuse that it is no longer relevant or sufficiently clear in its message to teach you anything about how to really deal with life. Get so close to it with your mind and your heart, with you intellect and your emotions, that spiritual osmosis will occur. It will work its way through the pores of your soul into the deepest fabric of your being. Allow its refreshing moisture to revive the dry bones of life lived only for self-gratification. {Ps 32:1-11}

The message in this passage startles and challenges us. Perhaps more than at any other time in our lives, when suffering and trials invade our life, we have a golden opportunity to demonstrate God’s grace and righteous judgment. Instead of complaining, " Why would God allow such a thing to happen to me?" respond to your suffering with patience and faith. When Christians face difficulty, the whole world watches! How will we react in the moment of test? Will we abandon every tenet of our faith and join the self-centered and the godless in their " It isn’t fair" complaint? Or will we react in patient faith so that onlookers will be amazed and refreshed by our faithful endurance?

Suffering will come in our life. Don’t doubt it. We can’t know when or what form it will take. We may live as if the Garden of Eden never occurred and react with amazement when trials surprise us. Or we may spend daily time absorbing the Biblical worldview that prepares us for suffering when it inevitably comes.

So what is the major purpose in our suffering? While divine instruction no doubt should occur, God has a far greater design than our instruction. He intends to use our learning in suffering to proclaim his glory! Instead of responding to suffering so that weak Christians and unbelievers react with " How could a good God allow...?" we have the incredible opportunity to respond to it so that they will be amazed at God’s tender goodness. You see, we may face our suffering in our own weakness, or we may face it in God’s strength! One reaction will feed the fires of unbelief. The other will urge people to consider the incredible power and goodness of God. When your trial comes, how will you react? Don’t know? Well today is the best time to change. Build the habit of living so close to God that osmosis, the wondrous absorption of his power and vitality into your life, will transform you into a living demonstration of his power and of his righteous judgment. May He be praised in our suffering!

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Gill: 2Th 1:4 - -- So that we ourselves glory in you,.... Or "of you"; for though they were the subject concerning which, yet not the object in which they gloried; the a...

So that we ourselves glory in you,.... Or "of you"; for though they were the subject concerning which, yet not the object in which they gloried; the apostle elsewhere advises not to glory in men, but only in the Lord; nor was this his practice contrary to his advice, for he did not boast of these persons with respect to their carnal things; he did not glory in their flesh, nor in their riches, nor wisdom, nor strength, nor any external gift; he gloried indeed of their graces, and of the exercise and increase of them; but of these not as of themselves, or as owing to him, and his fellow ministers, but as instances of the grace of God, and for which he gives thanks to him: and besides, he did not glory of these in the presence of God, in whose presence none should glory, but

in the churches of God; the other churches in Macedonia and Achaia, as Philippi, Berea, Corinth, &c. he gave thanks to God for them, and gloried of them before men, or among the saints, to the glory of the grace of God in them, and in order to stir up other churches to an emulation and imitation of them. And the particulars he gloried of them for were as follow,

for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure: many and sore were the reproaches, the afflictions, and persecutions that befell them for the sake of Christ, and their profession of him, and his Gospel; and which is more or less the case of everyone that will live godly in Christ Jesus: and these they endured, they bore and stood up under, they were not shocked, and staggered, and moved from the hope of the Gospel by them; which shows that the truth of grace was in them; for where there is not the root of the matter, when tribulation and affliction arise because of the profession of the word, such are offended, stumbled, and quickly gone; but these saints endured their afflictions, and with great patience, without murmuring and repining, and with great constancy, firmness, and resolution of mind. They stood fast in the grace and doctrine of faith, and in the profession of both, which they held without wavering, and none of the things they met with could move them from it. The apostle had mentioned their faith before, and he takes notice of it again, because their patience, constancy, and perseverance in sufferings, arose from it; for the trying of faith works patience, Jam 1:3. The Ethiopic version leaves out the word "faith", but very wrongly.

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TSK Synopsis: 2Th 1:1-12 - --1 Paul certifies them of the good opinion which he had of their faith, love, and patience;11 and therewithal uses divers reasons for the comforting of...

MHCC: 2Th 1:1-4 - --Where there is the truth of grace, there will be an increase of it. The path of the just is as the shining light, which shines more and more unto the ...

Matthew Henry: 2Th 1:1-4 - -- Here we have, I. The introduction (2Th 1:1, 2Th 1:2), in the same words as in the former epistle, from which we may observe that as this apostle did...

Barclay: 2Th 1:1-10 - --There is all the wisdom of the wise leader in this opening passage. It seems that the Thessalonians had sent a message to Paul full of self-doubtings...

Constable: 2Th 1:3-12 - --II. COMMENDATION FOR PAST PROGRESS 1:3-12 Paul thanked God for the spiritual growth of his readers, encouraged t...

Constable: 2Th 1:3-4 - --A. Thanksgiving for growth 1:3-4 1:3 In his earlier epistle to the Thessalonians Paul had urged them to grow in faith (1 Thess. 4:10) and to increase ...

College: 2Th 1:1-12 - --2 THESSALONIANS 1 I. GREETING (1:1-2) 1 Paul, Silas a and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: ...

McGarvey: 2Th 1:4 - --so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure [...

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Introduction / Outline

Robertson: 2 Thessalonians (Book Introduction) Second Thessalonians From Corinth a.d. 50 Or 51 By Way of Introduction It is plain that First Thessalonians did not settle all the difficulties ...

JFB: 2 Thessalonians (Book Introduction) Its GENUINENESS is attested by POLYCARP [Epistle to the Philippians, 11], who alludes to 2Th 3:15. JUSTIN MARTYR [Dialogue with Trypho, p. 193.32], al...

JFB: 2 Thessalonians (Outline) ADDRESS AND SALUTATION: INTRODUCTION: THANKSGIVING FOR THEIR GROWTH IN FAITH AND LOVE, AND FOR THEIR PATIENCE IN PERSECUTIONS, WHICH ARE A TOKEN FOR ...

TSK: 2 Thessalonians (Book Introduction) The First Epistle to the Thessalonians, it is generally agreed, was the earliest written of all St. Paul’s epistles, whence we see the reason and pr...

TSK: 2 Thessalonians 1 (Chapter Introduction) Overview 2Th 1:1, Paul certifies them of the good opinion which he had of their faith, love, and patience; 2Th 1:11, and therewithal uses divers r...

Poole: 2 Thessalonians 1 (Chapter Introduction) ARGUMENT (deutera . This is well called the Second or latter Epistle to these Thessalonians, for so it is; though Grotius would have it the first, ...

MHCC: 2 Thessalonians (Book Introduction) The second epistle to the Thessalonians was written soon after the first. The apostle was told that, from some expressions in his first letter, many e...

MHCC: 2 Thessalonians 1 (Chapter Introduction) (2Th 1:1-4) The apostle blesses God for the growing state of the love and patience of the Thessalonians. (2Th 1:5-12) And encourages them to persever...

Matthew Henry: 2 Thessalonians (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians This Second Epistle was written soon after the form...

Matthew Henry: 2 Thessalonians 1 (Chapter Introduction) After the introduction (2Th 1:1, 2Th 1:2) the apostle begins this epistle with an account of his high esteem for these Thessalonians (2Th 1:3, 2Th ...

Barclay: 2 Thessalonians (Book Introduction) A GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE LETTERS OF PAUL The Letters Of Paul There is no more interesting body of documents in the New Testament than the letter...

Barclay: 2 Thessalonians 1 (Chapter Introduction) Lift Up Your Hearts (2Th_1:1-10)

Constable: 2 Thessalonians (Book Introduction) Introduction Historical background This epistle contains evidence that Paul had recent...

Constable: 2 Thessalonians (Outline)

Constable: 2 Thessalonians 2 Thessalonians Bibliography Barclay, William. The Letters to the Philippians, Colossians and Thessalonians. Da...

Haydock: 2 Thessalonians (Book Introduction) THE SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL, THE APOSTLE, TO THE THESSALONIANS. INTRODUCTION. In this epistle St. Paul admonishes the Thessalonians to be c...

Gill: 2 Thessalonians (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO 2 THESSALONIANS This second epistle was written, not from Athens, as the subscription testifies, nor from Rome, as Athanasius a sup...

Gill: 2 Thessalonians 1 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO 2 THESSALONIANS 1 This chapter, besides the inscription and salutation, contains a thanksgiving for the flourishing condition in wh...

College: 2 Thessalonians (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION The pressures of persecution, apparent in 1 Thessalonians, have intensified in this letter. In its three brief chapters the reader perce...

College: 2 Thessalonians (Outline) OUTLINE I. GREETING - 1:1-2 II. OPENING THANKSGIVING, ENCOURAGEMENT AND PRAYER - 1:3-12 A. Thanksgiving for the Thessalonians' Growth and Endu...

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