Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
that we should suffer—Greek, "that we are about (we are sure) to suffer" according to the appointment of God (I Thessalonians 3:3).
even as—"even (exactly) as it both came to pass and ye know"; ye know both that it came to pass, and that we foretold it (compare John 13:19). The correspondence of the event to the prediction powerfully confirms faith: "Forewarned, forearmed" [EDMUNDS]. The repetition of "ye know," so frequently, is designed as an argument, that being forewarned of coming affliction, they should be less readily "moved" by it.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Thessalonians 3:4:
Acts 16:3
Acts 18:5-6
1 Thessalonians 1:6
1 Thessalonians 3:1
1 Thessalonians 3:3
1 Thessalonians 3:5
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