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Comforted (παραμυθούμενοι)
The A.V. renders the three participles in this verse as finite verbs, we exhorted, etc. Rev. retains the participial construction. Better than comforted, persuading. Persuasion is the form which the exhortation assumed. Παράκλησις exhortation, and παραμύθιου persuasion, are associated in Phi 2:1. The verb παραμυθέομαι, to persuade occurs only four times in N.T. See on Phi 2:1. Neither verb nor noun in lxx.
Charged (μαρτυρόμενοι)
Rev. testifying; but the A.V. is more correct. Rend. charging. The verb means to conjure, or appeal to by something sacred. So Eph 4:17. Comp. Act 20:26; Gal 5:3, and διαμαρτύρομαι I charge, 1Ti 5:21; 2Ti 2:14; 2Ti 4:1. Comp. Thucyd. vi. 80.