1Th 2:11 | JFB | STEP | 11. exhorted and comforted — Exhortation leads one to do a thing willingly; consolation, to do it joyfully [BENGEL ], ( ). Even in the former term, "exhorted," the Greek includes the additional idea of comforting and advocating one's cause: "encouragingly exhorted." Appropriate in this case, as the Thessalonians were in sorrow, both through persecutions, and also through deaths of friends ( ). charged —"conjured solemnly," literally, "testifying"; appealing solemnly to you before God. every one of you —in private ( ), as well as publicly. The minister, if he would be useful, must not deal merely in generalities, but must individualize and particularize. as a father —with mild gravity. The Greek is, " his own children."

1 Thessalonians 2:11

11. exhorted and comforted—Exhortation leads one to do a thing willingly; consolation, to do it joyfully [BENGEL], (1Th 5:14). Even in the former term, "exhorted," the Greek includes the additional idea of comforting and advocating one's cause: "encouragingly exhorted." Appropriate in this case, as the Thessalonians were in sorrow, both through persecutions, and also through deaths of friends (1Th 4:13).

charged—"conjured solemnly," literally, "testifying"; appealing solemnly to you before God.

every one of you—in private (Ac 20:20), as well as publicly. The minister, if he would be useful, must not deal merely in generalities, but must individualize and particularize.

as a father—with mild gravity. The Greek is, "his own children."