And pray that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men; for not everyone holds to the faith.
that we . . . be delivered from unreasonable . . . men--literally, men out of place, inept, unseemly: out of the way bad: more than ordinarily bad. An undesigned coincidence with Act 18:5-9. Paul was now at Corinth, where the JEWS "opposed themselves" to his preaching: in answer to his prayers and those of his converts at Thessalonica and elsewhere, "the Lord, in vision,"...
2 That we may be delivered. The old interpreter has rendered it, not unhappily, in my opinion — unreasonable Importunos. Wiclif (1380) renders it noyous.—Ed. Now, by this term, as also by that which immediately follows, (τῶν πονηρῶν,) evil, Paul means wicked and treacherous men, who lurked in the Church, under the name of Christians, or at least Jews, who with a mad zeal for...
And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men,.... Either from the unbelieving Jews, see Rom 15:30 who were the avowed enemies of the Gospel, and did all they could to hinder the spread of it; and who were the implacable and constant adversaries of the apostle; who often lay in wait for him, and opposed him, and gave him trouble in all...