데살로니가전서 2:14, 데살로니가전서 2:15 KRV

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - 1 Thessalonians 2:13-16

1 Thessalonians 2:13-163. b. The Apostle now on his part also reminds the Thessalonians, with thanksgiving to God, that they had received his word as the word of God, as they have since continually experienced in themselves God’s mighty working (1 Thessalonians 2:13). They could not otherwise have endured such vexations from their countrymen, as the brethren in Judea had from the Jews (1 Thessalonians 2:14), whose enmity to the truth and the Apostles, moreover, need give the less offence, that... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - 1 Thessalonians 2:13-20

The Apostle’s Glory and Joy 1 Thessalonians 2:13-20 The Christian worker always should wait on God till he gets the word of the message. There is an essential difference between delivering a sermon or an address and delivering a message. The latter is direct, eager; you wait to be sure it is understood; you expect an answer. A gospel message works in those who believe. That its ultimate effect will be to bring us into collision with the world-spirit goes without saying. For this conflict... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - 1 Thessalonians 2:1-20

It is evident that some of the Jews in Thessalonica had been discounting the apostle in his absence. He very definitely defends himself against such detraction, asserting that his preaching had been with boldness, characterized by thankfulness, full of tenderness, and prosecuted with earnestness. The faith they had exercised demonstrated that the Gospel was "not . . . vain." Their "work of faith" was the credential of the apostle's spiritual authority. His authority is further emphasized by... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - 1 Thessalonians 2:1-20

The Heart Life of the Apostle Paul 1 Thessalonians 2:1-20 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The opening verse of this remarkable chapter brings reminiscences of Paul's entrance into Thessalonica. This should be studied in connection with the sixteenth and seventeenth chapters of Acts which give in detail the data which is suggested in verses one to two. 1. There is a reference to His being shamefully entreated at Philippi. This story takes up the sixteenth chapter of Acts, and it is familiar to you all.... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16

‘For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus, for you also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews, who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out (or ‘persecuted us’), and do not please God, and are contrary to all men, forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved. To fill up their sins always. But the wrath is come on them to the uttermost.’ Paul now likens... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Thessalonians 2:13-20

1 Thessalonians 2:13-Proverbs : . Paul and the Thessalonian Church.— The next two paragraphs describe ( a) the effect of Paul’ s preaching at Thessalonica, ( b) his anxiety with regard to the fate of the Church under stress of persecution. 1 Thessalonians 2:14 . Judæ a: i.e. Palestine. We have no details regarding the persecution of the Palestinian Churches apart from the account of the recurring attacks made upon the Church at Jerusalem. 1 Thessalonians 2:16 . the wrath is come upon... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Thessalonians 2:14

This proves the assertion of the foregoing verse, as the illative for doth show. They were followers of the churches in Judea, which showed the word wrought in them effectually. Though the greatest part of the Jews believed not, yet many did, and hereupon we read of churches in Judea. Though there was before but one national church, yet now in gospel times the churches were many. And believing in Christ they are called churches in him, gathered together in his name, into his institutions, and... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Thessalonians 2:14

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES1 Thessalonians 2:14. Became followers.—R.V. “imitators.” The usual meaning of imitators hardly seems to obtain in full strength here. We cannot think the Thessalonians consciously copied the Judean Christians, to do which they would have had the superfluous task of raising up opposition. The words seem to mean no more than, “Ye came to resemble.” Of your own countrymen.—Lit. “fellow-tribesmen.” One is reminded of Shylock’s words—“Sufferance is the badge of all our... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Thessalonians 2:13-16

1 Thessalonians 2:13-16 I. In this passage the Apostle states the evidence of the effectual working of the word in the Thessalonian converts. The change it had wrought in them was genuine, for it withstood trial. This is the test of a right acceptance of the truth. The Thessalonian Church was one of the earliest in Palestine to testify their faithfulness in the furnace of affection. They were being exercised in what Melanchthon used to say was the best of the three schools in which a Christian... read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - 1 Thessalonians 2:13-14

Three Sights Worth Seeing -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Sermon (No. 1979) Delivered on Thursday Evening, March 24th, 1887, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the... read more