2 Thessalonians 1:4

So that we ourselves glory in you,.... Or "of you"; for though they were the subject concerning which, yet not the object in which they gloried; the apostle elsewhere advises not to glory in men, but…

So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God - That is, we mention your example to other churches, and glory in it, as an evidence of what the gospel is suited to do; see the notes on 1Th…

We ourselves glory in you in the Churches of God - We hold you up as an example of what the grace of God, can produce when communicated to honest and faithful hearts.

For your patience and faith -…

Here we have,

I. The introduction (Th2 1:1, Th2 1:2), in the same words as in the former epistle, from which we may observe that as this apostle did not count it grievous to him to write the same…

so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God The triumph of the Gospel at Thessalonica had given peculiar gratification of the Apostle (1Th 1:8; 1Th 3:7-9; 1Th 2:20, "You are our glory and…