These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
That small light of Christ might have been snuffed out when Paul left, yet those Thessalonians went forward in reading Scripture daily, proving how effectual his preaching was. The Spirit works with power even in the absence of the preacher, and it is rare indeed when the great and proud of this world lay down their dignity to embrace the cross.
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The apostles fled not for their own hides but to carry on their work elsewhere, as Christ commanded. The devil meant to stop the gospel by persecution and was outshot in his own bow; the brethren's care to send them away by night became the very means to spread it further. Flight was their charge, not their shame.
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Commenting on Acts 17:10-15
The Bereans' nobility lay not in birth, all were Jews, but in their candid and ingenuous minds, willing to hear without blasphemy or contradiction. This openness was not natural to them; it came from grace bestowed by God, which showed itself in their readiness to receive the word and examine it with patience.
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