1Thessalonians:1:8

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rwp @1Thessalonians:1:8 @{From you hath sounded forth } (\aph ' hum “n ex ˆch ˆtai \). Perfect passive indicative of \ex ˆche “\, late compound verb (\ex , ˆchos , ˆch “, ˆch ˆ\, our echo ) to sound out of a trumpet or of thunder , to reverberate like our echo . Nowhere else in the N .T . Songs :"from you " as a sounding board or radio transmitting station (to use a modern figure ). It marks forcibly "both the clear and the persuasive nature of the \logos tou Kuriou \" (Ellicott ). This phrase , the word of the Lord , may be subjective with the Lord as its author or objective with the Lord as the object . It is both . It is a graphic picture with a pardonable touch of hyperbole (Moffatt ) for Thessalonica was a great commercial and political centre for disseminating the news of salvation (on the Egnation Way ). {But in every place } (\all ' en panti top “i \). In contrast to Macedonia and Achaia . The sentence would naturally stop here , but Paul is dictating rapidly and earnestly and goes on . {Your faith to God-ward } (\h ˆ pistis hum “n h ˆ pros ton theon \). Literally , {the faith of you that toward the God }. The repeated article makes clear that their faith is now directed toward the true God and not toward the idols from which they had turned (verse 10 |). {Is gone forth } (\exel ˆluthen \). Second perfect active indicative of old verb \exerchomai \, to go out , state of completion like \ex ˆch ˆtai \ above . {Songs:that we need not to speak anything } (\h “ste m ˆ chreian echein h ˆm ƒs lalein ti \). \H “ste \ with the infinitive for actual result as in verse 7 |. No vital distinction between \lalein \ (originally to chatter as of birds ) and \legein \, both being used in the _Koin ‚ _ for speaking and preaching (in the N .T .).

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