Verse 7
(7) “Your zeal was so great and sincere that you, in your turn, became a model: for even in far-away countries the tale of your conversion is told with wonder.”
Ensamples.—Probably the singular should be read: the whole church became a model church.
To all that believe—i.e., now; not to those that then believed; Philippi was the only such church.
Macedonia and Achaia.—These two provinces comprised all Roman Greece. The influence of the Thessalonians spreads far beyond their own country.
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