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1 Thessalonians 1
Verse 1. Paul - In this epistle St. Paul neither uses the title of an apostle, nor any other, as writing to pious and simple-hearted men, with
the utmost familiarity. There is a peculiar sweetness in this
epistle, unmixed with any sharpness or reproof: those evils which
the apostles afterward reproved having not yet crept into the
church.
Verse
3. Remembering in the sight of God - That is, praising him for it.
Your work of faith - Your active, ever-working faith. And labour
of love - Love continually labouring for the bodies or souls of
men. They who do not thus labour, do not love. Faith works, love
labours, hope patiently suffers all things.
Verse
4. Knowing your election - Which is through faith, by these plain
proofs.
Verse
5. With power - Piercing the very heart with a sense of sin and
deeply convincing you of your want of a saviour from guilt,
misery, and eternal ruin. With the Holy Ghost - Bearing an
outward testimony, by miracles, to the truth of what we preached,
and you felt: also by his descent through laying on of hands. With
much assurance - Literally, with full assurance, and much of it:
the Spirit bearing witness by shedding the love of God abroad in
your hearts, which is the highest testimony that can be given. And
these signs, if not the miraculous gifts, always attend the
preaching of the gospel, unless it be in vain: neither are the
extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost ever wholly withheld,
where the gospel is preached with power, and men are alive to
God. For your sake - Seeking your advantage, not our own.
Verse
6. Though in much affliction, yet with much joy.
Verse
8. 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 need not speak anything - Concerning it.
Verse
9. For they themselves - The people wherever we come.
Verse
10. Whom he hath raised from the dead - In proof of his future
coming to judgment. Who delivereth us - He redeemed us once;
he delivers us continually; and will deliver all that believe from
the wrath, the eternal vengeance, which will then come upon the
ungodly.
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