For most assuredly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.
      III. The motive inducing Paul to send Timothy for this end, namely, a godly fear or jealousy, lest they should be moved from the faith of Christ, 1 Thessalonians 3:3; 1 Thessalonians 3:3. He was desirous that no man, no one among them, should be moved or shaken in mind, that they should not apostatize or waver in the faith. And yet,