1 Thessalonians 2:13

13. Thank we God From whom the power of accepting comes.

Received By the ear.

Received Different Greek word from the former received, signifying acceptance by will.

Word of God It was preached as gospel of God, and was correspondently accepted as word of God.

Effectually But not resistlessly, worketh. Yet conviction is often resistless, though conversion be free and voluntary. And if powerful conversion be ever resistless, perseverance is not. St. Paul declares that their acceptance was by divine inworking spirit and grace, just as the preaching was in our God. There was a double correspondent divine work in the offer and in the acceptance, which in neither case excluded the freedom of man, but in both cases called for thanks to God, 1Th 1:2 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:13.