1 Tessalonicesi 1:6

6 E voi siete stati imitatori nostri, e del Signore, avendo ricevuta la parola in molta afflizione, con allegrezza dello Spirito Santo.

1 Tessalonicesi 1:6 Meaning and Commentary

1 Thessalonians 1:6

And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord
So far followers of them as they were of Christ, in embracing the Gospel, submitting to the ordinances of it, professing the name of Christ, and suffering for his sake; the Alexandrian copy reads, "of God", and others, "of Christ":

having received the word;
the Gospel, the word of truth, peace, and righteousness, and of salvation by Christ; which they received not as the word of man, but of God; and that

in much affliction;
referring to the uproar made by the baser sort of people, instigated by the unbelieving Jews, and the trouble they gave to Jason and other brethren, mentioned in ( Acts 17:1 Acts 17:5-9 ) and this is a considerable commendation of them, that at a time when others were offended and fell off from hearing the word, and a profession of the Gospel, they should receive it, and that

with much joy of the Holy Ghost;
not with a carnal joy, or with a mere flash of natural affection, as in the stony ground hearers, and in the Jews, who rejoiced for a while in John's ministry, and in Herod, who sometimes heard him gladly; but with a spiritual joy of the Holy Ghost's producing in them, applying the word with power to them, giving them a spiritual gust of it, and pleasure in it, raising in their souls a joy upon the most solid foundation.

1 Tessalonicesi 1:6 In-Context

4 sapendo, fratelli amati di Dio, la vostra elezione.

5 Poichè il nostro evangelo non è stato inverso voi in parola solamente, ma ancora in virtù, e in Ispirito Santo, e in molto accertamento; siccome voi sapete quali siamo stati fra voi per amor vostro.

6 E voi siete stati imitatori nostri, e del Signore, avendo ricevuta la parola in molta afflizione, con allegrezza dello Spirito Santo.

7 Talchè siete stati esempi a tutti i credenti in Macedonia, ed in Acaia.

8 Perciocchè non sol da voi è risonata la parola del Signore nella Macedonia, e nell’Acaia; ma ancora la fede vostra, la quale avete inverso Iddio, è stata divolgata in ogni luogo; talchè non abbiam bisogno di dirne cosa alcuna.