1 THESSALONIANS 2:1 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:”
For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain — Paul's apostolic self-defense presupposes their intimate knowledge of his ministry among them. The 'not in vain' (ou kenos) echoes the emptiness of human ambition; his coming bore fruit because it was animated by divine purpose. Their experienced knowledge is the vindication of his apostolic authenticity.
Church Fathers on 1 Thessalonians 2:1
Great indeed were your actions also, but yet neither did we have recourse to human speech. But what he says above, that also he repeats here, that from both sides is shown what was the nature of the Preaching, from the miracles, and from the resolution of the preachers, and from the zeal and fervor of those who received it. “For yourselves,” he says, “know our entering in unto you, that it has not been found vain,” that is, that it was not according to man, nor of any common…
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