They themselves (αυτο). The men of Macedonia, voluntarily.

Report (απαγγελλουσιν). Linear present active i…

For they themselves. Those who have visited you, and those whom you have sent out—all persons testify to your piety. The apostle seems to …

They themselves—that is, the inhabitants of those countries. “Wherever we go we find our own story told us.”

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Paul here states that all the churches elsewhere knew what a wonderful time he had had with the Thessalonians, and with what eagerness they had rec…

In describing how the Thessalonians were a model Christian community and giving further proof of the effect of the Gospel on them, Paul gives anoth…

He says that the report of their conversion had obtained great renown everywhere. What he mentions regarding his entering in among them re…

Ver. 9. For they themselves show of us Either the above reports of the preaching of the Gospel to the Thessalonians, and …

When careless, ignorant, and immoral persons are turned from their carnal pursuits and connections, to believe in and obey the Lord Jesus, to live …

The Apostle wishes to strengthen the Church in the face of tribulations. First, he addre es present tribulations in the first letter to the The alo…