.Bible Class Questions

         
    QUESTIONS OVER
    I THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 2:

    1. Paul reminds them of his first coming to Thessalonica: "For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto [coming to] you, that it was not in ____________ ."

    2. What does this word (one that goes in the blank) literally mean?

    3. What did the Thessalonians know about what had happened to Paul before he came to Thessalonica, but he didn’t let it hinder him in preaching the gospel there?

    4. According to Paul, why was his exhortation not presented in deceit, uncleanness and guile, nor to please men?

    5. What did the Thessalonians know about Paul’s use of words, which they were not (as sometimes men used them as a cloak for covetousness)?

    6. When Paul speaks of "we" (Paul, Silas and Timothy) not being burdensome "as the apostles of Christ," in what sense is he using the word "apostle"?

    7. What are three or four other Scriptural examples of the use of the word "apostle" in this way (not like the twelve apostles and Paul as the officially commissioned eye-witnesses of Christ)?

    8. What words does Paul use in describing how gentle these preachers had been among the Thessalonians?

    9. Showing how much the Thessalonians meant to them, what does Paul say they were willing or pleased to impart to the Thessalonians even beyond giving them the gospel?

    10. How were the preachers sustained while preaching the gospel at Thessalonica? 

    11. "Ye are witnesses, and God also, how ____________ and ____________ and _______________________ we behaved ourselves among you that believe."

    12. "As ye know, how we exhorted and comforted and charged everyone of you, as ______________________________________ ____________________ ."

    13. Who were they to walked worthy of?

    14. In what way had they not received the Word of God, and how had they received it?

    15. As the Thessalonians became followers of the churches of God in Judea, what did they have in common with them as stated here?

    16. What were the Jews doing that further filled up the measure of their sins in view of the wrath to come?

    17. Paul speaks of "being taken from" the Thessalonians, although he greatly desired to be with them—what does this expression literally mean in the language of the New Testament?

    18. Although more than once Paul would have come to them, what does he say as to why he hadn’t come?

    19. What did Paul say was his (their, these preacher’s) hope, joy and crown of rejoicing?

    20. The word for crown here, stephenas, had its origin in what connection?

    NAME: _________________________ DATE: ________________

    ANSWERS: 1. I Thess. 2:1; 2. Empty, thus futile; 3. How he had been shamefully treated at Philippi, I Thess. 2:2 (Acts 16:22-40); 4. I Thess. 2:3,4--He wanted to live up to the trust God had in him, as he had been approved of God for this work; 5. They were not with flattery, I Thess. 2:5; 6. More general sense of the meaning of the word, one sent on a mission (not like the 12 apostles or himself as offical eyewitnesses of Christ); 7.  (1) Acts 14:4,14: (2) I Corinthians 4:9 (apostles here include Paul, Apollos and Cephas--I Cor. 3:3-5,21-23; 4:1,9); (3) II Corinthians 8:23 (apostolos is here translated "messengers," the ones sent by the churches to taken the benevolent offering to Palestine); (4) Philippians 2:25 ( Epaphroditus was a "messenger," Greek: apostolos, of the church at Philippi in bringing help to Paul); 8. As a nursing mother, I Thess. 2:7; 9. Their own souls, I Thess. 2:8; 10. They worked aside from preaching the gospel (I Thess. 2:9), and the church at Philippi sent support (Philippinas 4:15,16); 11. I Thess. 2:10; 12. I Thess. 2:11; 13. I Thess. 2:12; 14. I Thess. 2:13; 15. I Thess. 2:14; 16. I Thess. 2:16; 17. To be orphaned from them; 18. I Thess. 2:18; 19. I Thess. 2:19; 20. Crown, Stephanos--The victory wreath made of various leaves, given in the Greek games; also worn in celebrating military victories.

     
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