Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
HE ASKS THEIR PRAYERS: HIS CONFIDENCE IN THEM: PRAYER FOR THEM: CHARGES AGAINST DISORDERLY IDLE CONDUCT; HIS OWN EXAMPLE: CONCLUDING PRAYER AND SALUTATION. (2Th. 3:1-18)
Finally—literally, "As to what remains."
may have free course—literally, "may run"; spread rapidly without a drag on the wheels of its course. That the new-creating word may "run," as "swiftly" as the creative word at the first (Psalms 147:15). The opposite is the word of God being "bound" (II Timothy 2:9).
glorified—by sinners accepting it (Acts 13:48; Galatians 1:23-24). Contrast "evil spoken of" (I Peter 4:14).
as it is with you— (I Thessalonians 1:6; I Thessalonians 4:10; I Thessalonians 5:11).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 2 Thessalonians 3:1:
Galatians 2:2
Philippians 3:1
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