Second Sunday after Epiphany
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1 Thessalonians 2:7
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But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children.
But we were gentle among you, euen as a nource cherisheth her children.
Although we could have been a burden as Christ’s apostles, instead we were gentle among you, as a nurse nurtures her own children.
But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherishes her own children.
but have been gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse would cherish her own children.
When we were with you, as apostles of Christ we could have used our authority to make you help us. But we were very gentle with you. We were like a mother caring for her little children.
But we behaved gently when we were among you, like a devoted mother tenderly caring for her own children.
But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherisheth her own children:
On the contrary, we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother caring for her children.
But as apostles, we could have demanded help from you. After all, Christ is the one who sent us. We chose to be like children or like a mother nursing her baby.
As emissaries of the Messiah, we could have made our weight felt; but instead, we were gentle when we were with you, like a mother feeding and caring for her children.
even though as apostles of Christ we might have made such demands. Instead, we were gentleinfants">[fn] among you, like a nursing mother tenderly caring for her own children.1 Corinthians 2:3; 9:22; 2 Corinthians 13:4; 2 Timothy 2:24;">[xr]
but we were humble among you, and, as a nurse who loveth her children,
But we were lowly among you; and like a nurse, who fondleth her children,
But wee were gentle among you, euen as a nurse cherisheth her children:
When we myght haue ben in auctoritie, as the Apostles of Christe, but we were tender among you, euen as a nource cherissheth her chyldren,
But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherisheth her own children:
Although we could have insisted on our own importance as apostles of Christ, yet we became infants in your midst, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
But we were gentle in your midst, even as a nurse should warmly cherish her children.
But we proved to be gentle among you. As a nursing mother tenderly cares for her own children,
even though as apostles of Christ we could have used our authority over you. But we were very gentle with you, like a mother caring for her little children.
although we could have imposed our weight as apostles of Christ; instead we became little children among you. Like a nursing mother caring for her own children,
But we were gentle among you, just as a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
As apostles of Christ we certainly had a right to make some demands of you, but instead we were like children among you. Or we were like a mother feeding and caring for her own children.
though we might have made demands as apostles of Christ. But we were gentle among you, like a nurse tenderly caring for her own children.
But we became gentle in your midst, - as though, a nursing mother, had been cherishing her own children:
Whereas we might have been burdensome to you, as the apostles of Christ: but we became little ones in the midst of you, as if a nurse should cherish her children:
But we were meek when we were among you, and like a foster mother who loves her children:
even though as apostles of Christ we could have made demands on you. But we were gentle when we were with you, like a mother taking care of her children.
But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherishes her own children.
But we were gentle in the midst of you, even as a nurse cherisheth her own children.
On the contrary, in our relations to you we showed ourselves as gentle as a mother is when she tenderly nurses her own children.
nether of othere, whanne we, as Cristis apostlis, miyten haue be in charge to you. But we weren maad litle in the myddil of you, as if a nursche fostre hir sones;
But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
But we were gentle among you, like a nurse taking care of her children.
but we were tender amonge you even as a norsse cheressheth her children
We might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ; but we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherishes her own children:
But we became gentle in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children,
But we were gentle among you, like a woman caring for her little ones:
but we were tender amonge you. Like as a norsse cherisheth hir children,
we behav'd to you with a tender regard, even as a mother, who nurses her own children.
Instead, we were gentle when we came to you. We were like a mother caring for her children.
Instead, we rode through your herd like little kids at their first branding. We cared for y'all with the gusto of a protective stud watching over his mares and foals.
But we proved to be gentle among you, as a nursing mother tenderly cares for her own children.
But we proved to be gentle among you, as a nursing mother tenderly cares for her own children.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
we: Genesis 33:13, Genesis 33:14, Isaiah 40:11, Ezekiel 34:14-16, Matthew 11:29, Matthew 11:30, John 21:15-17, 1 Corinthians 2:3, 1 Corinthians 9:22, 2 Corinthians 10:1, 2 Corinthians 13:4, Galatians 5:22, Galatians 5:23, 2 Timothy 2:24, 2 Timothy 2:25, James 3:17
as: 1 Thessalonians 2:11, Numbers 11:12, Isaiah 49:23, Isaiah 66:13, Acts 13:18, *marg.
Reciprocal: Genesis 47:12 - according to their families Numbers 12:3 - very Psalms 131:1 - my heart 1 Corinthians 4:21 - and 1 Thessalonians 1:10 - wait 1 Thessalonians 5:14 - comfort Titus 3:2 - gentle
Cross-References
And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?
Let the Lord , the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
Gill's Notes on the Bible
But we were gentle among you,.... Meek and humble, mild and moderate; not using severity, or carrying it in a haughty imperious manner; assuming power and dominion, lording it over God's heritage, and commanding persons to do homage and honour to them, and forcing themselves upon them, and obliging them to maintain them. The Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions, instead of "gentle", read, "little children"; as the word signifies, by adding a letter to it, and expresses much the same as the other, that they were harmless and modest, and disinterested; and sought not themselves neither honour nor wealth, but the real good of others, and were kind and tender, and affectionate to them:
even as a nurse cherisheth her children: or "the children of her own self"; her own children, and so designs a nursing mother, one whose the children are, has bore them as well as nurses them, and therefore has the most tender concern for them; she lays them in her bosom, and hugs them in her arms, and so warms and cherishes them; gives them the breast, bears with their frowardness, condescends to do the meanest things for them; and that without any self-interest, from a pure parental affection for them: and such were the apostles to these Thessalonians; they were their spiritual parents, of whom they travailed in birth, till Christ was formed in them; they used them with the greatest kindness and tenderness; they fed them with the sincere milk of the word; they bore patiently all the slighting and ill treatment they met with; and condescended to men of low estates, and did them all the good offices they could, without any selfish views or sinister ends: a like simile is used by the Jews e, who say,
"he that rises in the night to study in the law, the law makes known to him his offences; and not in a way of judgment, but ××××, as a mother makes known to her son, "with gentle words":''
but the ministration of the Gospel is much more gentle.
e Zohar in Lev. fol. 10. 2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
But we were gentle among you - Instead of using authority, we used only the most kind and gentle methods to win you and to promote your peace and order. The word here rendered ânurse,â may mean any one who nurses a child, whether a mother or another person. It seems here to refer to a mother (compare 1 Thessalonians 2:11), and the idea is, that the apostle felt for them the affectionate solicitude which a mother does for the child at her breast.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 7. But we were gentle among you — Far from assuming the authority which we had, we acted towards you as a tender nurse or parent does to a delicate child. We fed, counselled, cherished, and bore with you; we taught you to walk, preserved you from stumbling, and led you in a right path.
Instead of ηÏιοι, gentle, many MSS., and several versions and fathers, have νηÏιοι, young children. But this never can be considered the original reading, the scope of the place being totally opposed to it. It is the Thessalonians whom the apostle considers as young children, and himself and fellow labourers as the nurse; he could with no propriety say that he was among them as a little child, while himself professed to be their nurse.
