1 THESSALONIANS 1:8 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.”
For not only has the word of the Lord sounded forth from you, but your fame has gone forth everywhere — the gospel is heard not merely in proclamation but in the living witness of transformed lives. The word 'sounded forth' (execheomai) carries resonance; their testimony echoes throughout the Christian world. What began as receiving the word now becomes distribution, multiplication.
Church Fathers on 1 Thessalonians 1:8
As a sweet-smelling ointment keeps not its fragrance shut up in itself, but diffuses it afar, and scenting the air with its perfume, so conveys it also to the senses of the neighbors; so too illustrious and admirable men do not shut up their virtue within themselves, but by their good report benefit many, and render them better. Which also then happened. Wherefore he said, “So that you became ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.” “For from you,” he says,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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