Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Thessalonians 3:2

2 And sent Timotheus our brother and minister of God, and our fellow-labourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith .

3. By the description he gives of him in the Text. A man dear to him, and as his right hand in the service of the Gospel. And his care of them is commended the more by sending so eminent a person to them. 4. From his end in sending him; which was to establish them, that through the fear of suffering, or any Temptations they might not forsake the Faith they had received; and to comfort them concerning their Faith: The word sometimes signifies to exhort, and the sence is good if we so read it. But because the Faith they had embraced presented much matter of comfort to them, therefore our Translation well renders the word.

Marginal references: Rom. 16.11.