520 B
520 B
became imitators of the churches...
They experienced similar hostility from other Thessalonians just as the first believers experienced persecution from the Jewish leaders. Alternate translation: "became like the churches..."
from your own countrymen
"from other Thessalonians"
They forbid us to speak
"They seek to make us stop speaking"
to always fill up their sins
"to continue to sin"
Wrath has come on them
"God's punishment has come on them" or God's anger has come on them"