 | 1819 - 488 pagina’s
...sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you allb. "And to the Thessalonians," So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to...but also our own souls ; because ye were dear unto usc. " And with respect to his kindred the people of the Jews, he saith," I could wish that myself... | |
 | Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - 1820 - 548 pagina’s
...nor yet of others ; but we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children : so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel only, bat our own souls also, because ye were dear to us. For what is our hope, our joy, our crown... | |
 | John Newton - 1821 - 686 pagina’s
...example of the apostles, were equally desirous to imitate him in the use of it.) He then adds, " So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to...only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear to us." No comment can do justice to the spirit of this sentiment, or to the force of the expression... | |
 | 1837 - 552 pagina’s
...all imitation. Says one, "We were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children; so being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to...imparted unto you not the gospel of God only, -but our own souls also, because ye were dear unto us. What is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing?... | |
 | John Newton - 1821 - 620 pagina’s
...inscribed, By the AUTHOR. Ctethe Death of Dr CONYERS. 1 THESS. ii. 8. . Sof being affectionately desirtus of you, .we .were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, tut also oar own souls, because ye were dear unto us. A' N actire undaunted zeal in the service of... | |
 | 1821 - 488 pagina’s
...not ready, with the generous feeling of an apostle, to exclaim, We are •• willing" to impart to you, '-not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls!" By the phrase htaven and earth, the Jews expressed their idea of the universe. But to Jesus all power... | |
 | E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 606 pagina’s
...Thess. ii. 7, 8. 11. But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children : So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to...also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, at a father doth his children.... | |
 | 1822 - 538 pagina’s
...is not ready, with the generous feeling of an apostie, to exclaim : we are " willing" to impart to you, " not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls ?" By the phrase heaven and earth, the Jews expressed their idea of the universe. But to Jesus all... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - 362 pagina’s
...and day, because we wo-ild not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God. Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily, and justly,...unblamably, we behaved ourselves among you that believe." A person who reads this passage is naturally led by it to suppose, that the writer had dwelt at Thessalonica... | |
 | 1823 - 430 pagina’s
...SOUL delight in fatness." (Isaiah Iv. 2.) See also Paul's address to the church at Thessalonica — " We " were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of " God only, but also our own SO ULS, because ye were dear to " us." (1 Thess. ii. 8.) From these several cases, thus classed, it... | |
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So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. 
