Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Thessalonians 2:1

1 FOR your selves , brethren, know our enterance in unto you , that it was not in vain c.

'[non-Latin text not transcribed], Which some read, They themselves, &c. And then the words refer to the Believers in Macedonia and Achaia, mentioned before chap. 1. ver. 9, 10. Or, if we read, ye your selves, he appeals to their own experience and knowledge.

[non-Latin text not transcribed], Was not vain, or empty without fruit; our very first preaching had great success. Though the Gospel is alwaies either the Savour of Life unto Life, or of Death unto Death, yet if no good Fruit spring from a mans Ministry, it may be said to be vain; as the Prophet complains, I have laboured in vain, Isa. 49.4. Or as some, our preaching was not about things vain and unprofitable.