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Selected Verse: 1 Thessalonians 3:4 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 1Th 3:4 |
Strong Concordance |
For [1063] verily [2532], when [3753] we were [2258] with [4314] you [5209], we told [4302] you [5213] before [4302] that [3754] we should [3195] suffer tribulation [2346]; even [2532] as [2531] it came to pass [1096], and [2532] ye know [1492]. |
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King James |
For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
that we should suffer--Greek, "that we are about (we are sure) to suffer" according to the appointment of God (Th1 3:3).
even as--"even (exactly) as it both came to pass and ye know"; ye know both that it came to pass, and that we foretold it (compare Joh 13:19). The correspondence of the event to the prediction powerfully confirms faith: "Forewarned, forearmed" [EDMUNDS]. The repetition of "ye know," so frequently, is designed as an argument, that being forewarned of coming affliction, they should be less readily "moved" by it. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
For verily, when we were with you, we told you before ... - It is not mentioned in the history Acts 17 that Paul thus predicted that special trials would come upon them, but there is no improbability in what is here said. He was with them long enough to discourse to them on a great variety of topics, and nothing can be more probable, than that in their circumstances, the subjects of persecution and affliction would be prominent topics of discourse. There was every reason to apprehend that they would meet with opposition on account of their religion, and nothing was more natural than that Paul should endearour to prepare their minds for it beforehand,
That we should suffer tribulation - We who preached to you; perhaps also including those to whom they preached.
Even as it came to pass, and ye know - When Paul, Silas, and Timothy were driven away, and when the church was so much agitated, by the opposition of the Jews; Act 17:5-8. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| That we should suffer tribulation - I prepared you for it, because I knew that it was according to their nature for wicked men to persecute the followers of God. |
19 Now [575] [737] I tell [3004] you [5213] before [4253] it come [1096], that [2443], when [3752] it is come to pass [1096], ye may believe [4100] that [3754] I [1473] am [1510] he.
3 That no man [3367] should be moved [4525] by [1722] these [5025] afflictions [2347]: for [1063] yourselves [846] know [1492] that [3754] we are appointed [2749] thereunto [1519] [5124].
5 But [1161] the Jews [2453] which believed not [544], moved with envy [2206], [2532] took unto them [4355] certain [5100] lewd [4190] fellows [435] of the baser sort [60], and [2532] gathered a company [3792], and set all [2350] the city [4172] on an uproar [2350], and [5037] assaulted [2186] the house [3614] of Jason [2394], and sought [2212] to bring [71] them [846] out [1519] to the people [1218].
6 And [1161] when they found [2147] them [846] not [3361], they drew [4951] Jason [2394] and [2532] certain [5100] brethren [80] unto [1909] the rulers of the city [4173], crying [994], [3754] These [3778] that have turned [387] the world [3625] upside down [387] are come [3918] hither [1759] also [2532];
7 Whom [3739] Jason [2394] hath received [5264]: and [2532] these [3778] all [3956] do [4238] contrary [561] to the decrees [1378] of Caesar [2541], saying [3004] that there is [1511] another [2087] king [935], one Jesus [2424].
8 And [1161] they troubled [5015] the people [3793] and [2532] the rulers of the city [4173], when they heard [191] these things [5023].