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Sep 17, 2019 · Acts 17:10 says the believer’s in Thessalonica sent Paul and Silas away at night, certainly not the way Paul would have liked to leave these new Christians. In 1 Thessalonians 2:17 Paul describes this sudden departure as being “torn away” from the new Christians. The verb ἀπορφανίζω has the sense of a child that is orphaned ...
May 30, 2015 · The Apostle says that on numerous occasions he was hindered from ministering to the Thessalonian believers. In Romans 1:13, we learn that Paul was often hindered from reaching the believers in Rome. While the manner of hindering concerning Rome was unknown, Satan was definitely involved in some way. In fact, the very reason why Paul died was ...
Paul's letter to the Thessalonians boasts of his success in teaching, how they have taught through him and praises how their teaching continues to spread the Word of Christ and then suddenly interjects Satan hindering his return. So was Satan hindering Paul from returning or was he not yet called by Christ to return because of his successful ...
Mar 12, 2018 · Perhaps Paul knew that if he returned to Thessalonica his friend Jason would either be jailed or at least forced to pay the bond money. If this working theory is correct, it means that Satan didn’t hinder Paul’s return to Thessalonica by stationing demons along the road leading into the city. He didn’t strike Paul with physical sickness.
The mysterious obstacle, which Paul traced back to the ultimate malice of Satan, may have been either (a) an illness (cf. 2 Corinthians 12:7, so Simon, die Psychologie des Apostels Paulus, 63, 64), (b) local troubles, (c) the exigencies of his mission at the time being (Grotius), or (d) a move on the part of the Thessalonian politarchs who may ...
1 Thessalonians 2:18. ESV because we wanted to come to you — I, Paul, again and again — but Satan hindered us. NIV For we wanted to come to you—certainly I, Paul, did, again and again—but Satan blocked our way. NASB For we wanted to come to you—I, Paul, more than once—and Satan hindered us. CSB So we wanted to come to you—even I ...
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Jan 17, 2020 · Similarly, he had not yet returned to Thessalonica at the time he wrote 1 Thessalonians because Satan was standing in his way (1 Thess. 2:18). By afflicting Paul with an illness or some other hindrance—we do not know exactly what the devil did—Satan was keeping Paul away. But Paul truly wanted to be there.
