...But we, bre« ASi xvii. thren, being * taken 5 — '<>» from you for a Ihort time, in pretence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to fee your face with great defire. 1 8 Wherefore, we would have come unto you (even I Paul) once and again .; but . ' Satan hindred us....

...jhewing himjdf that he is God. The Devil and Mens Lufts internally, 1 TheiT. ii. 1 8. Wherefore wi would have come unto you (even I Paul) once and again; but Satan hindered, Lukexix, 14. But his Citir.ens hated him, and jeat a Mejfenger after him, faying, We will not have...

...edification •, as he hindered the apoftle Paul, and others, from going to TbeJJalonica ; as he affirms, Wherefore we would have come unto you (even I Paul] once and again, but Satan hindered us' ; but, when God fays he will come, and is refolved to come, and pay a gracious vifit to his people,...

...them to the uttermoft. 17 But we, brethren, being taken from you for a fhort time in prefence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to fee your face with great defire. 1 8 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again ; but Satan hindered us. 19...

...alfo bear record. And yt know, that our recotd is true. And St. Paul I TheiT. ii. 18. Wherefore wt would have come -unto you, even I Paul, once and again. But Satan hindered us. Cbryfoßom (t) and Theophylafi (a) underftood St. John to fpeak here of himfelf, * ^q) Ibid. I. 2....

...expression of St. Paul, however, unequivocally illustrates and explains this sort of interpretation. " Wherefore we. would have come unto you (even I, Paul) once and again, but Satan hindered us." Again he says, " When I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means, the...

...judge, will illuftrate and confirm the foregoing explication of that under confideration, chap. ii. 18. Wherefore we would have come unto you (even I, Paul) once and again, but Satan hindered us. In looking into A£ts xvii. it appears, . that after he had converted many of the Thefialonians to...

...as a recent tranfaction : " We, brethren, being " taken from you for ajhort time, in prefence " not in heart, endeavoured the more ** abundantly to fee your face with great " defire," (ii. 17). The harmony is indubitable; but the points of hiftory in which it confifts, are fo expref&ly...

...temple of God, (hewing himfelf that he is God. The devil and men's Itifts internally ; i Theff! ii 18. Wherefore we would have come unto you (even I Paul) once and again ; but Satan hindered us. Luke xix. 14. But his citizens hated him, and fent a mcfiefcger after him, faying, We will riot have...

...in ch. ii. 17. 18. he fays, ' But we, brethren, being taken from you a Ihort time in prefence, and in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to fee your...defire. Wherefore, we would have come unto you, even 1 Paul, once and again, but Satan hindered us.' Since therefore St. Paul had feveral times formed a...