17 [a]Forasmuch, brethren, as we [b]were kept from you for a season, concerning sight, but not in the heart, we enforced the more to see your face with great desire.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 2:17 He meeteth with an objection, why he came not to them straightway being in so great misery, I desired oftentimes (saith he) and it lay not in me, but Satan hindered my endeavors, and therefore I sent Timothy my faithful companion unto you, because you are most dear to me.
  2. 1 Thessalonians 2:17 Were kept asunder from you, and as it were orphans.

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