1 Thessalonicher 2:11

11 wie ihr denn wisset, daß wir, wie ein Vater seine Kinder, einen jeglichen unter euch ermahnt und getröstet

1 Thessalonicher 2:11 Meaning and Commentary

1 Thessalonians 2:11

As you know
This is added to the end of the last verse in the Arabic version, and which begins this verse thus, "as one of you, and as a father comforting his sons, so we" but for what is said in the former verse, an appeal is made both to God and to the Thessalonians, so that there is no need of adding such a clause there; it properly stands here in connection with what follows,

how we exhorted;
to flee from wrath to come, and to Christ for refuge; to look to, and believe in him, as the only Saviour of lost sinners; to perform the duties of religion, and to continue in the faith; to cleave to Christ, and walk on in him as they had received him, and to abide by the truths and ordinances of the Gospel they had embraced:

and comforted;
under a sense of sin, with the soul comforting doctrines of free justification by the righteousness of Christ, of full pardon by his blood, and of a plenary satisfaction and atonement by his sacrifice; and under all their afflictions and persecutions for the sake of Christ, with exceeding great and precious promises of the presence, grace, and strength of Christ here, and glory hereafter:

and charged everyone of you;
not only publicly, but privately, going from house to house; not in an austere and domineering way, but with the greatest tenderness, and yet faithfulness: even

as a father doth his children;
not only in an authoritative, but in an affectionate way, and also with solid wisdom and judgment; for in such a relation, in a Spiritual sense, did the apostle and his fellow ministers stand in to them; see ( 1 Corinthians 4:15 ) and the substance of the charge is as follows:

1 Thessalonicher 2:11 In-Context

9 Ihr seid wohl eingedenk, liebe Brüder, unsrer Arbeit und unsrer Mühe; denn Tag und Nacht arbeiteten wir, daß wir niemand unter euch beschwerlich wären, und predigten unter euch das Evangelium Gottes.

10 Des seid ihr Zeugen und Gott, wie heilig und gerecht und unsträflich wir bei euch, die ihr gläubig waret, gewesen sind;

11 wie ihr denn wisset, daß wir, wie ein Vater seine Kinder, einen jeglichen unter euch ermahnt und getröstet

12 und bezeugt haben, daß ihr wandeln solltet würdig vor Gott, der euch berufen hat zu seinem Reich und zu seiner Herrlichkeit.

13 Darum danken auch wir ohne Unterlaß Gott, daß ihr, da ihr empfinget von uns das Wort göttlicher Predigt, es aufnahmt nicht als Menschenwort, sondern, wie es denn wahrhaftig ist, als Gottes Wort, welcher auch wirkt in euch, die ihr glaubet.