1st Thessalonians Chapter 2 verse 7 Holy Bible
But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherisheth her own children:
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But we were gentle among you, like a woman caring for her little ones:
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but have been gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse would cherish her own children.
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But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
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But we were gentle among of you, as when a nurse cherishes her own children.
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But we became gentle in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - But. The apostle now describes iris conduct positively. We were gentle; a word used of the amiable conduct of a superior toward an inferior, as of a master toward a servant, a prince toward his subjects, or a father toward his children. "The servant of God must not strive, but be gentle toward all men" (2 Timothy 2:24). Some manuscripts read, "We were babes among you" - the difference being only the addition of another letter. Among you; in our intercourse with you. Even as a nurse; or rather, a nursing mother, for the children arc her own. Cherisheth; the word employed for birds warming and cherishing their young. Her children. A stronger expression of tenderness and love could hardly be made. Even as a nursing mother dedicates her life for her infant; so, says Paul, we are willing to dedicate ourselves for you. Some important manuscripts read the verse thus: "But we were babes among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children;" but this arises from an obvious error of the transcriber.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7) Among you.--Rather, in the midst of you, making the gentleness still more marked. "Her," in the Greek emphatically her own. The contrast is drawn between the charlatan, licentious, sophistical, fawning, greedy, vainglorious teachers, to whom Greeks were well accustomed, and the Apostles, sitting familiarly like mothers amidst a group of their own children, folding them for warmth to their bosoms "Keep a mother's heart for men," was the advice which made Henri Perreyve's life so winning (Meditations, p. 87).
