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1Th_3:4. Reason of αὐτοὶ γὰρ οἴδατε .
πρὸς ὑμᾶς ] The accusative, as in Gal_1:18; Gal_2:5; 1Co_16:7, etc.
Also μέλλομεν is neither to be restricted to Paul (Oecumenius, Estius, Osiander, Nat. Alexander, Macknight), nor to Paul and his companions (Hofmann), nor to Paul and the Thessalonians (Grotius, Koppe); but, as κείμεθα 1Th_3:3, to be taken generally: we Christians in general. Μέλλομεν θλίβεσθαι however, is distinguished from the simple future—it characterizes the sufferings as inevitable, as predetermined in the counsels of God.
οἴδατε ] from your own experience. Baumgarten-Crusius incorrectly refers it to προελέγομεν .