1 Tesalonika 1:9

1:9 For people everywhere ¹  report how you welcomed us ²  and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

1 Tesalonika 4:17

4:17 Then we who are alive, who are left, ³  will be suddenly caught up ⁴  together ⁵  with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.

[1:9]  ¹ tn Grk “they themselves,” referring to people in the places just mentioned.

[1:9]  ² tn Grk “what sort of entrance we had to you” (an idiom for how someone is received).

[4:17]  ³ tc The words οἱ περιλειπόμενοι (Joi perileipomenoi, “[the ones] who are left”) are lacking in F G {0226^vid} ar b as well as a few fathers, but the rest of the textual tradition has the words. Most likely, the Western mss omitted the words because of perceived redundancy with οἱ ζῶντες (Joi zwnte", “[the ones] who are alive”).

[4:17]  ⁴ tn Or “snatched up.” The Greek verb ἁρπάζω implies that the action is quick or forceful, so the translation supplied the adverb “suddenly” to make this implicit notion clear.

[4:17]  ⁵ tn Or “simultaneously,” but this meaning does not fit as well in the parallel in 5:10.