Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Thessalonians 1:2

2 We give thinks to God always for you all , making mention of you in our prayers .

After his salutation he adds his Thanksgiving and Prayer for them. He saw in them an eminent seal of his Apostleship, and effect of his Ministry, and advantage to the Gospel in their example, and so gives thanks. And his thanks is to God, because the success of the Gospel was more from hi[illegible: 1 letter] blessing, then his own Ministry.

[non-Latin text not transcribed], that is, in a constant course; or affectu, though not actu, by a grateful sense he had of it continually upon his heart.

For he had a good report of them all from Timothy, chap. 3.6. and we find not one reproof in this First Epistle to any one, as in the Second.

He adds also his prayer for them, wherein he made mention of them by name, as some understand the words, [non-Latin text not transcribed], Prayer and Thanksgiving ought to go together, especially in the Ministers of the Gospel, and in the work of their Ministery. And thus the Apostle practised towards other Churches also, as Rom. 1.8. Phil. 1.3. &c.

Marginal references: Eph. 1. Philem. 4.; Or, remembrance.