14 [a]For brethren, ye are become followers of the Churches of God, which in Judea are in [b]Christ Jesus, because ye have also suffered the same things of your own [c]country men, even as they have of the Jews,

15 [d]Who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own Prophets, and have persecuted us away, [e]and God they please not, and are contrary to [f]all men,

16 And forbid us to preach unto the Gentiles, that they might be saved, to [g]fulfill their sins always: for the [h]wrath of God is come on them to the utmost.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 2:14 He confirmeth them in their afflictions which they suffered of their own people, because they were afflicted of their own countrymen: which came as well (saith he) to the Churches of the Jews, as to them: and therefore they ought to take it in good part.
  2. 1 Thessalonians 2:14 Which Christ hath gathered together.
  3. 1 Thessalonians 2:14 Even of them which are of the same country, and the same town that you are of.
  4. 1 Thessalonians 2:15 He preventeth an offense which might be taken, for that the Jews especially above all others persecuted the Gospel. That is no new thing, sayeth he, seeing they slew Christ himself and his Prophets, and have banished me also.
  5. 1 Thessalonians 2:15 He foretelleth the utter destruction of the Jews, lest any man should be moved by their rebellion.
  6. 1 Thessalonians 2:15 For the Jews would neither enter into the kingdom of God themselves, nor suffer others to enter in.
  7. 1 Thessalonians 2:16 Until the wickedness of theirs which they have by inheritance as it were of their fathers, be grown so great that the measure of their iniquity being filled, God may come forth to wrath.
  8. 1 Thessalonians 2:16 The judgments of God being angry, which indeed appeared shortly after in the destruction of the city of Jerusalem, whither many resorted even out of divers provinces, when it was besieged.

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