Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on 1 Thessalonians 2:1
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible. Browse this work.
Read 1 Thessalonians 2. Compare commentaries on this chapter.
Source and publication rights
Public domain. Public Domain. Source edition.
Berean Blue opens December 1, 2026. Explore this passage in the app preview.
1 Thessalonians2:1
CHAPTER 2
1Th 2:1-20. His Manner of Preaching, and Theirs of Receiving, the Gospel; His Desire to Have Revisited Them Frustrated by Satan.
1. For--confirming 1Th 1:9. He discusses the manner of his fellow missionaries' preaching among them (1Th 1:5, and former part of 1Th 2:9) at 1Th 2:1-12; and the Thessalonians' reception of the word (compare 1Th 1:6, 7, and latter part of 1Th 2:9) at 1Th 2:13-16.
yourselves--Not only do strangers report it, but you know it to be true [Alford] "yourselves."
not in vain--Greek, "not vain," that is, it was full of "power" (1Th 1:5). The Greek for "was," expresses rather "hath been and is," implying the permanent and continuing character of his preaching.
Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1 Thessalonians 2:1. Public domain.
Permanent link. Source edition.