For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.
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Gill's Exposition
For, verily, when we were with you,.... In presence, in person, as they then were in heart and affection; when they were first among them, and preached the Gospel to them:
we told you before; before…
Barnes' Notes
For verily, when we were with you, we told you before ... - It is not mentioned in the history Acts 17 that Paul thus predicted that special trials would come upon them, but there is no improbability…
Adam Clarke
That we should suffer tribulation - I prepared you for it, because I knew that it was according to their nature for wicked men to persecute the followers of God.
In these words the apostle gives an account of his sending Timothy to the Thessalonians. Though he was hindered from going to them himself, yet his love was such that he could not forbear sending…
Cambridge Bible
For verily, when we were with you, we told you before More precisely, used to tell you; this was no single warning, but one repeated and familiar. For other references to the apostles" previous…
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