1st Thessalonians Chapter 2 verse 11 Holy Bible
as ye know how we `dealt with' each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging `you', and testifying,
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Even as you saw how, like a father with his children, we were teaching and comforting you all, and giving witness,
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as ye know how, as a father his own children, we used to exhort each one of you, and comfort and testify,
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As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
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As you know how we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
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even as ye have known, how each one of you, as a father his own children, we are exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 11. - As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children. The translation of this verse is somewhat faulty; it ought to be, as in the R.V., as ye know how we dealt with each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging you, and testifying. Paul here changes the image from that of a nursing mother to that of a father; because then he was speaking of his tender care for his converts, whereas here he speaks of the instructions and admonitions which he gave them; as a mother he nourished their spiritual life, and as a father he superintended their spiritual education. "Exhorting and comforting and charging;" representing three modes of the apostle's instructions: "exhorting" denotes also encouraging and consoling; "comforting" denotes supporting and sustaining ("Comfort the feeble minded," 1 Thessalonians 5:14); and "charging" denotes testifying or protesting - a solemn pressing home of the exhortation to the hearers.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(11) As (emphatic):" we lived holily--just (in fact) as you remember we tried to induce each one of you to live."Every one,--Now they appeal to the individual recollection of the Thessalonians. It gives us an incidental glimpse of the apostolic method,--which was, to deal with individual souls. (Comp. Acts 20:20; Acts 20:31; Colossians 1:21.) St. Chrysostom exclaims: "Fancy! not one in all that multitude passed over!" The image is changed from that of motherly tenderness to that of fatherly direction.Comforted is here used as almost equivalent to "exhorted," or, rather, encouraged, when the moral aspirations were beginning to flag.Charged.--Better, adjured; so Galatians 5:3. . . .
