Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Join "now" with "come"; "But Timotheus having just now come from you unto us" [ALFORD]. Thus it appears (compare Acts 18:5) Paul is writing from Corinth.
your faith and charity— (I Thessalonians 1:3; compare II Thessalonians 1:3, whence it seems their faith subsequently increased still more). Faith was the solid foundation: charity the cement which held together the superstructure of their practice on that foundation. In that charity was included their "good (kindly) remembrance" of their teachers.
desiring greatly—Greek, "having a yearning desire for."
we also—The desires of loving friends for one another's presence are reciprocal.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Thessalonians 3:6:
Acts 16:3
Acts 18:5-6
1 Thessalonians 3:1
1 Thessalonians 3:7
2 Thessalonians 3:4
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