Robertson Word Pictures - 1 Thessalonians 3:1 - 3:1

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Robertson Word Pictures - 1 Thessalonians 3:1 - 3:1


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When we could no longer forbear (mēketi stegontes). Stegō is old verb to cover from stegē, roof (Mar 2:4), to cover with silence, to conceal, to keep off, to endure as here and 1Co 9:12; 1Co 13:7. In the papyri in this sense (Moulton and Milligan’s Vocabulary). Mēketi usual negative with participle in the Koiné[28928]š rather than ouketi.

We thought it good (ēudokēsamen). Either literary plural as in 1Th 2:18 or Paul and Silas as more likely. If so, both Timothy and Silas came to Athens (Act 17:15.), but Timothy was sent (we sent, epempsamen, 1Th 3:2) right back to Thessalonica and later Paul sent Silas on to Beroea or Thessalonica (1Th 2:5, I sent, epempsa). Then both Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia to Corinth (Act 18:5).

Alone (monoi). Including Silas.