Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
moved—"shaken," "disturbed." The Greek is literally said of dogs wagging the tail in fawning on one. Therefore TITTMANN explains it, "That no man should, amidst his calamities, be allured by the flattering hope of a more pleasant life to abandon his duty." So ELSNER and BENGEL, "cajoled out of his faith." In afflictions, relatives and opponents combine with the ease-loving heart itself in flatteries, which it needs strong faith to overcome.
yourselves know—We always candidly told you so (I Thessalonians 3:4; Acts 14:22). None but a religion from God would have held out such a trying prospect to those who should embrace it, and yet succeed in winning converts.
we—Christians.
appointed thereunto—by God's counsel (I Thessalonians 5:9).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Thessalonians 3:3:
Job 4:5
Acts 16:3
Acts 18:5-6
Philippians 1:16-17
1 Thessalonians 1:6
1 Thessalonians 3:1
1 Thessalonians 3:2
1 Thessalonians 3:4
1 Thessalonians 5:9
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