Even so, being affectionately desirous of you (ουτως ομειρομενο υμων). Clearly the correct text rather than ιμειρομενο from ιμειρω…

So, being affectionately desirous of you. The word translated "being affectionately desirous," imeirw, occurs nowhere else in the…

So means here even so, confirming the simile, and is not to be taken in the sense of “therefore.”

Not the …

The manner of gentle treatment involved a willingness to share with the Thessalonians both the Gospel of God and their own lives; that is how much …

So being affectionately desirous of you
Not of theirs but them; not of glory from them, nor a maintenance by them, b…

Mildness and tenderness greatly recommend religion and are most conformable to God's gracious dealing with sinners, in and by the gospel. This is t…

Previously, Paul commended the The alonians for having received God’s word amid tribulations; now he praises them because they did not fall away as…