“For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.”
— WEB
1 Thessalonians 3:4
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“For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.”
— KJV
“For verily, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction; even as it came to pass, and ye know.”
— ASV
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Commentary
that we should suffer--Greek, "that we are about (we are sure) to suffer" according to the appointment of God (Th1 3:3). even as--"even (exactly) as it both came to pass and ye know"; ye know both that it came to pass, and that we foretold it (compare Joh 13:19). The correspondence of the event to the prediction powerfully confirms faith: "Forewarned, forearmed" [EDMUNDS]. The repetition of "ye know," so frequently, is designed as an argument, that being forewarned of coming affliction, they should be less readily "moved" by it.
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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