1 THESSALONIANS 2:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:”
Who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind — the harsh judgment here reflects Paul's acute pain at Jewish opposition to the gospel; the rejection of Jesus continues the pattern of prophetic rejection. The phrase 'displease God' (aprosdekktos) indicates cosmic disapproval of this resistance. The rejection of salvation's offer incurs the wrath of the God who offers it.
Church Fathers on 1 Thessalonians 2:15
“For you,” he says, “became imitators of the Churches of God which are in Judæa.” This is a great consolation. It is no wonder, he says, that they should do these things to you, inasmuch as they have done it also to their own countrymen. And this too is no little proof that the Preaching is true, that even Jews were able to endure all things. “For you also,” he says, “have suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews.” There is something more…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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