But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire. 18. Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us. Introduction to the New Testament - Page 25by Johann David Michaelis - 1801Full view - About this book
| Bible - 1737 - 468 pages
...But we, bre« ASi xvii. thren, being * taken 5 — '<>» from you for a Ihort time, in pretence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to fee your face with great defire. 1 8 Wherefore, we would have come unto you (even I Paul) once and again .; but . ' Satan hindred us.... | |
| John Flavel - Westminster Assembly - 1767 - 268 pages
...jhewing himjdf that he is God. The Devil and Mens Lufts internally, 1 TheiT. ii. 1 8. Wherefore wi would have come unto you (even I Paul) once and again; but Satan hindered, Lukexix, 14. But his Citir.ens hated him, and jeat a Mejfenger after him, faying, We will not have... | |
| John Gill - Baptists - 1773 - 678 pages
...edification •, as he hindered the apoftle Paul, and others, from going to TbeJJalonica ; as he affirms, Wherefore we would have come unto you (even I Paul] once and again, but Satan hindered us' ; but, when God fays he will come, and is refolved to come, and pay a gracious vifit to his people,... | |
| Bible - 1788 - 598 pages
...them to the uttermoft. 17 But we, brethren, being taken from you for a fhort time in prefence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to fee your face with great defire. 1 8 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again ; but Satan hindered us. 19... | |
| Richard Watson - Theology - 1791 - 568 pages
...alfo bear record. And yt know, that our recotd is true. And St. Paul I TheiT. ii. 18. Wherefore wt would have come -unto you, even I Paul, once and again. But Satan hindered us. Cbryfoßom (t) and Theophylafi (a) underftood St. John to fpeak here of himfelf, * ^q) Ibid. I. 2.... | |
| Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Philosophy - 1794 - 540 pages
...expression of St. Paul, however, unequivocally illustrates and explains this sort of interpretation. " Wherefore we. would have come unto you (even I, Paul) once and again, but Satan hindered us." Again he says, " When I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means, the... | |
| William Ashdowne - Devil - 1794 - 90 pages
...judge, will illuftrate and confirm the foregoing explication of that under confideration, chap. ii. 18. Wherefore we would have come unto you (even I, Paul) once and again, but Satan hindered us. In looking into A£ts xvii. it appears, . that after he had converted many of the Thefialonians to... | |
| William Paley - Bible - 1796 - 448 pages
...as a recent tranfaction : " We, brethren, being " taken from you for ajhort time, in prefence " not in heart, endeavoured the more ** abundantly to fee your face with great " defire," (ii. 17). The harmony is indubitable; but the points of hiftory in which it confifts, are fo expref&ly... | |
| John Flavel - 1799 - 666 pages
...temple of God, (hewing himfelf that he is God. The devil and men's Itifts internally ; i Theff! ii 18. Wherefore we would have come unto you (even I Paul) once and again ; but Satan hindered us. Luke xix. 14. But his citizens hated him, and fent a mcfiefcger after him, faying, We will riot have... | |
| Johann David Michaelis - 1802 - 566 pages
...in ch. ii. 17. 18. he fays, ' But we, brethren, being taken from you a Ihort time in prefence, and in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to fee your...defire. Wherefore, we would have come unto you, even 1 Paul, once and again, but Satan hindered us.' Since therefore St. Paul had feveral times formed a... | |
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