1 Thessalonians Chapter 2, Verse 1
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1: For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that
it was not in vain:
1: For yourselves know, brethren, our entrance in unto you, that it
was not in vain:
For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you. "1Thess 1:9, Paul appeals to themselves, for proof that they had not come among them as impostors. They had had a full opportunity to see them, and to know what influenced them. Paul frequently appeals to his own life, and to what they, among whom he laboured, knew of it, as a full refutation of the slanderous accusations of his enemies. "1Cor 4:10ff, 1Cor 9:19ff 2Cor 6:3ff.
That it was not in vain. kenh. This word means
(1.) empty, vain, fruitless, or without success;
(2.) that in which there is no truth or reality -- false, fallacious, Eph 5:6 Col 2:8. Here it seems, from the connexion, 1Thess 2:3ff, to be used in the latter sense, as denoting that they were not deceivers. The object does not appear to be so much to show that their ministry was successful, as to meet a charge of their adversaries that they were impostors. Paul tells them that, from their own observation, they knew that this was not so.
