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1 Thessalonians 1 - Peake Arthur S. and Grieve A. J. - Peake's Comment

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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, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Their Work of Faith

2 We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;

3 remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;

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 we were among you for your sake.

6 And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:

7 so that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.

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 abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.

9 For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;

10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

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1 Thessalonians 1

1Th 1:1-10 . 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 patience of hope” exhibited by the Thessalonians, and describing them as a “model Church.”

1Th 1:1 . Silvanus: the Silas of Acts. He and Timothy were the constant companions of Paul during the second missionary journey.

1Th 1:3 . work of faith, etc.: note the combination of the three great Pauline words—faith, hope, and love (cf. 1Co 13:13 ). This sentence is a kind of hall-mark setting the stamp of genuineness upon the epistle. Note also the combination of works and faith in the phrase “work of faith” (cf. Gal 5:6 ).—labour of love: toil of love.—patience of hope: the endurance or the constancy of hope; the hope that never fails or flags.

1Th 1:6 . having received . . . in affliction: a reference to the persecution organised by “certain vile fellows of the rabble” (Act 17:5-9 *).

1Th 1:7 . an ensample: a model. The phrase “model Church” is applied only to Thessalonica.

1Th 1:8 . sounded forth: reverberated. No details have been preserved with regard to this missionary activity.

1Th 1:9 . from idols: this phrase indicates that the Church was mainly composed of Gentiles who had been converted from paganism.

1Th 1:10 . The two principal items of their faith are: (a) to serve a living and true God, (b) to wait for the Parousia of Christ.—the wrath to come: the impending judgment which is to fall on the world at the Parousia.




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