Word
of God
Man
does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth from
the mouth of God
Matthew
4:4
The
First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians 2:5-6
Study
notes by John Gill
Edited/Prefaced
by Doktor Riktor Von Zhades
5
Neither yet did we ever use flattering words, as ye know, nor colored
covetousness, God is record. 6 Neither sought we praise of men,
neither of you, nor of others, when we might have been chargeable, as
the Apostles of Christ.
Brethren:
Herein
Paul states that their bringing of the Gospel was not used to gain
advantage over them, nor as a cloak to seek out the praise of men.
They in fact worked among them so as not to require any assistance
from them in so far as provisions; food, shelter, clothing. The
inference here also lends itself to the knowledge that God would
provide either directly or through the means made necessary for those
things to be cared for. (Read Matthew 6:31-32; Philippians 4:19).
Now as is written in Scripture a workman is indeed worthy of his
wages, yet Paul and his companions sought not wages and took nothing
from those to whom they preached. Nay, instead they were quite
satisfied to work, and preach, and bring into the fold those that
would believe in the Gospel.
Dr.
R.V.Z
“For
neither at any time used we flattering words. Indeed they declared
the reverse, they asserted the weakness and impotency of man, to
anything that is spiritually good; and represented him as a weak and
strengthless creature, and unable to do anything, even to think a
good thought of himself; and ascribed all that a man is, or has, or
does, that is good, to the grace and power of God, who works in him
both to will and to do: nor did they plead for the sufficiency of
man's righteousness to justify him before God, a doctrine very
pleasing to human nature.
Additionally,
they gave out that there was none righteous, no, not one of the sons
of Adam, in and of themselves, or by virtue of any righteousness of
their own; so far from it that they were full of all unrighteousness,
and were not capable of working out a righteousness, or of attaining
to the righteousness of the law; that what they did pretend to was
not a justifying righteousness, and would give no right and title to
eternal glory; and that the righteousness of Christ was the only
righteousness, by which a man could be justified from all things, and
in which he could be found safe. They did not blend and mix their
doctrine to suit with the tastes of different men, but with all
sincerity and plainness preached the truth, as it is in Jesus.” -
John Gill Theologian
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