Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
the Lord Jesus—rather as Greek, "Jesus THE LORD." This enhances the glaring enormity of their sin, that in killing Jesus they killed the LORD (Compare Acts 3:14-15).
their own—omitted in the oldest manuscripts.
prophets— (Matthew 21:33-41; Matthew 23:31-37; Luke 13:33).
persecuted us—rather as Greek (see Margin), "By persecution drove us out" (Luke 11:49).
please not God—that is, they do not make it their aim to please God. He implies that with all their boast of being God's peculiar people, they all the while are "no pleasers of God," as certainly as, by the universal voice of the world, which even they themselves cannot contradict, they are declared to be perversely "contrary to all men." JOSEPHUS [Against Apion, 2.14], represents one calling them "Atheists and Misanthropes, the dullest of barbarians"; and TACITUS [Histories, 5.5], "They have a hostile hatred of all other men." However, the contrariety to all men here meant is, in that they "forbid us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved" (I Thessalonians 2:16).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Thessalonians 2:15:
Mark 13:29
Romans 2:8
1 Thessalonians 2:1
1 Thessalonians 2:17
1 Thessalonians 4:1
2 Thessalonians 3:2
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