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...example of the apostles, were equally desirous to imitate him in the use of it.) He then adds, " So being affectionately desirous of you, " we were willing...also our own souls, because " ye were dear unto us." No comment can do justice to the spirit of this sentiment, or to the force of the expression in the...

...I Thess. ii. 7. But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children. Ver. 8. So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing...also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. Ver. 1 1. As ye know how we exhorted, and comforted, anil charged every one of you, as a father doth...

...breast, and feeds them with her milk, the quintessence of her own blood ; " so," saith St. Paul, " being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you the sincere milk of the word, even the gospel of God, the most precious thing we had to communicate...

...; being so affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted to you, not the gospel only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. 2. Diligent, sincere, and frequent preaching of the word unto them, with administration of all ordinances....

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...speaking of himself, and fellow labourers, says, " and labour, working with our own hands." — again, *' Labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you."1 We conceive there is nothing in all these passages, or any other part of the New Testament,...

...even as a nurse cJurhfieth her children : so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were willmg to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but our own satils, became ye were dear unto its. So also he !is of his bowels of love, Phil. i. 8. Phikm....

...1 Thess. ii. 7. But we were gentle among you, even as a rrurse cherisheth her children. Ver. 8. So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing...also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. Ver. 11. As ve know how we exhorted, and comforted, and charged every one of you. as a father doth...

...to the conversion of many of whom he had been directly instrumental, he seems to ,be all love. "So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing...but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us — But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time, in presence, not in heart* endeavored...