SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:15
los cuales tambin mataron al Seor Jess y a sus propios profetas, y a nosotros nos han perseguido; y no agradan a Dios, y se oponen a todos los hombres;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Thessalonians 2:15
Verse 15. & 16. Who hath killed the Lord Jesus, &c.] What a finished but just character is this of the Jews! 1. They slew the Lord Jesus, through the most unprincipled and fell malice. 2. They killed their own prophets; there was no time in which the seed of the serpent did not hate and oppose spiritual things, they slew even their own prophets who declared to them the will of God. 3. They persecuted the apostles; showing the same spirit of enmity to the Gospel which they had shown to the law. 4. They did not please God, nor seek to please him; though they pretended that their opposition to the Gospel was through their zeal for God's glory, they were hypocrites of the worst kind. 5. They were contrary to all men; they hated the whole human race, and judged and wished them to perdition. 6. They forbade the apostles to preach to the Gentiles, lest they should be saved; this was an inveteracy of malice completely superhuman; they persecuted the body to death, and the soul to damnation! They were afraid that the Gentiles should get their souls saved if the Gospel was preached to them! 7. They filled up their sins always; they had no mere purposes or outlines of iniquity, all were filled up; every evil purpose was followed, as far as possible, with a wicked act! Is it any wonder, therefore, that wrath should come upon them to the uttermost? It is to be reckoned among the highest mercies of God that the whole nation was not pursued by the Divine justice to utter and final extinction.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 15. Who both killed the Lord Jesus , etc.] For though Pilate condemned him to death, and the Roman soldiers executed the sentence, yet it was through the malice and envy of the Jews that he was delivered to him, who brought charges against him, and insisted upon the crucifixion of him; and who are therefore said to have taken him with wicked hands, and crucified and slain him; and to have killed the Prince of life, and to have been the betrayers and murderers of him; and therefore it is no wonder that such persons should persecute the followers of Christ, whether in Judea or elsewhere: and their own prophets ; whom God sent unto them; these they not only mocked and misused, and persecuted, but many of them they put to death, as Isaiah and others; and though this was done by their fathers, yet the present generation were the children of them that killed the prophets; and showed themselves to be of the same principles, and by their practices approved of what they had done: hence our Lord addresses the city of Jerusalem thus, O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets, ( Matthew 23:31,34,37). The Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions leave out the phrase their own, and so does the Alexandrian copy; but it stands in the Syriac and Arabic versions, and is rightly retained, it having an emphasis in it; these prophets being of their own nation, born among them, and raised up in the midst of them, and sent unto them particularly, and yet were so used; and therefore it need not seem strange that they should treat in an ill manner persons of a lower character, that did not agree with them; the consideration of which serves to support under reproach and persecution; (see Matthew 5:12). And have persecuted us ; the apostles of Christ; have drove us out of our own country, and pursued us from place to place, and caused us to flee from one city to another: and they please not God : though they reckoned themselves his chosen people, the favourites of heaven, and whom God delighted in; but neither their persons nor their actions were pleasing to him, their carnal minds being enmity to him, to his law and to his Gospel; and they in the flesh, or in an unregenerate estate, and without faith in Christ, without which it is impossible to please God, and their actions such as before described: and are contrary to all men ; not only Christians, but Heathens; to all the Gentiles, who are called all men, the nations of the world, the world, and the whole world; they were contrary to these, both in their religious and civil principles, and had an aversion to them, of which the following is a full instance.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 13-16 - We should receive the word of God with affections suitable to it holiness, wisdom, truth, and goodness. The words of men are frail an perishing, like themselves, and sometimes false, foolish, and fickle but God's word is holy, wise, just, and faithful. Let us receive an regard it accordingly. The word wrought in them, to make them example to others in faith and good works, and in patience under sufferings and in trials for the sake of the gospel. Murder and persecution ar hateful to God, and no zeal for any thing in religion can excuse it Nothing tends more to any person or people's filling up the measure of their sins, than opposing the gospel, and hindering the salvation of souls. The pure gospel of Christ is abhorred by many, and the faithfu preaching of it is hindered in many ways. But those who forbid the preaching it to sinners, to men dead in sin, do not by this please God Those have cruel hearts, and are enemies to the glory of God, and to the salvation of his people, who deny them the Bible.
Greek Textus Receptus
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Vincent's NT Word Studies
15. Persecuted (ekdiwxantwn). Rev. more literally and correctly, drave out. The word only here, though it occurs as an alternative reading, Luke xi. 49. Probably with special reference to his own expulsion from Thessalonica. Acts xvii. 5-10.
Contrary to all men. Tacitus (Hist. v. 5) describes the Jews as stubborn in their faith, prompt in kindly offices to each other, but bitterly hostile toward everybody else: Juvenal (Sat. xiv. 102 f.) says that they observe and respect whatever Moses has taught in his mystical volume; not to show the way except to one who practices the same rites, and to show the well only to the circumcised.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
2:15 {Who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets} (twn kai ton kurion apokteinantwn iesoun kai tous profetas). First aorist active participle of apokteinw. Vivid justification of his praise of the churches in Judea. The Jews killed the prophets before the Lord Jesus who reminded them of their guilt (#Mt 23:29). Paul, as Peter (#Ac 2:23), lays the guilt of the death of Christ on the Jews. {And drove us out} (kai hemas ekdiwxantwn). An old verb to drive out or banish, to chase out as if a wild beast. Only here in N.T. It is Paul's vivid description of the scene told in #Ac 17:5ff. when the rabbis and the hoodlums from the agora chased him out of Thessalonica by the help of the politarchs. {Please not God} (qewi me areskontwn). The rabbis and Jews thought that they were pleasing God by so doing as Paul did when he ravaged the young church in Jerusalem. But Paul knows better now. {And are contrary to all men} (kai pasin anqrwpois enantiwn). Dative case with the adjective enantiwn (old and common word, face to face, opposite). It seems like a bitter word about Paul's countrymen whom he really loved (#Ro 9:1-5; 10:1-6), but Paul knew only too well the middle wall of partition between Jew and Gentile as he shows in #Eph 2 and which only the Cross of Christ can break down. Tacitus (_Hist_. V. 5) says that the Jews are _adversus omnes alios hostile odium_.
