Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
So that (wste). Another example of wste and the infinitive (enkauxasqai) for result as in I Thessalonians 1:7 which see.
We ourselves (autouv hmav). Accusative of general reference with the infinitive, but not merely hmav (or eautouv), perhaps in contrast with en umin (in you), as much as to say, "so that we ourselves, contrary to your expectations, are boasting" (Frame). Enkauxaomai occurs here alone in N.T., but is found in the LXX and in Aesop's Fables, proof enough of its vernacular use. Paul was not above praising one church to other churches, to provoke them to good works. Here he is boasting of Thessalonica in Macedonia to the Corinthians as he did later to the Corinthians about the collection (II Corinthians 8:1-15) after having first boasted to the Macedonians about the Corinthians (II Corinthians 9:1-5). There were other churches in Achaia besides Corinth (II Corinthians 1:1).
For (uper). Over, about, like peri (I Thessalonians 1:2).
In all your persecutions (en pasin toiv diwgmoiv umwn). Their patience and faith had already attracted Paul's attention (I Thessalonians 1:3) and their tribulations qliyesin (I Thessalonians 1:6). Here Paul adds the more specific term diwgmov, old word from diwkw, to chase, to pursue, a word used by Paul of his treatment in Corinth (II Corinthians 12:10).
Which ye endure (aiv anexesqe). B here reads enexesqe, to be entangled in, to be held in as in Galatians 5:1, but anexesqe is probably correct and the aiv is probably attracted to locative case of qliyesin from the ablative wn after anexesqe,
from which ye hold yourselves back (cf. Colossians 3:13).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 2 Thessalonians 1:4:
1 Thessalonians 1:6
2 Thessalonians 1:11
2 Thessalonians 2:1
2 Timothy 3:10
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