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For this cause I also, when I couldn`t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.
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The Reality of the Tempter
Commentators unanimously identify "the tempter" as Satan, whose constant work is to test believers' faith. Paul's anxiety wasn't about whether the Thessalonians would be tempted—he knew they would be, especially during persecution. His fear, as scholars explain, was whether Satan's temptations had succeeded, causing them to abandon their faith and rendering his ministry to them 'in vain.'
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For this cause. Since I knew that you were so liable to be persecuted, and since I feared that some might be turned from the truth by this…
That I might know (εις το γνωνα). Paul's common idiom (verse 2), εις το and the infinitive of purpose (second aorist ingressive ac…
19th Century
Anglican
For this cause.—“Because I knew that temptation was sure to overtake you, I sent to see whether our work still lived, and was like…
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In this situation, Paul, speaking now only of himself at this point, was constrained to find out through Timothy the state of their faith. He knew …
16th Century
Protestant
Lest perhaps the tempter has tempted you. By this statement, he teaches us that temptations are always to be feared, because it is the spe…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For this cause, when I could no longer forbear Or "bear" the above vehement desire of seeing them, or of hearing fro…
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The more we find pleasure in the ways of God, the more we will desire to persevere in them. The apostle's design was to establish and comfort the T…
13th Century
Catholic
Paul mentioned the trials the Thessalonians had endured and the relief he intended to supply for them. Here he recalls how he came to their assista…
