20For ye are our glory and joy.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.
For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-20)In these words the apostle apologizes for his absence. Here observe, 1. He tells them they were involuntarily forced from them: We, brethren, were taken from you , 1 Thess. 2:17. Such was the rage of his persecutors. He was unwillingly sent away by night to Berea, Acts 17:10. 2. Though he was absent in body, yet he was present in heart. He had still a remembrance of them, and great care for them.…
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