Verse 7
7. Ensamples This neither courting persecution nor shrinking from it, but rejoicing in it, was a new thing in Europe. These men who first so did, seemed to have invented a new moral method, and they became models, ensamples to others. When by the Spirit’s power it was once done, then other Christians knew how to do it likewise.
Macedonia Northern Greece, where you live.
Achaia Southern Greece, whence we write. As up to the time of the return of Timothy from Thessalonica to Paul at Corinth, Paul had learned nothing of the state of that Church, the jubilant view of matters in this and the following verse must have been created by Timothy’s report, and by concurrent news from other sources about the same time.
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