so that no one would be shaken by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are appointed for this, for indeed when we were with you we told you beforehand that we were about to be afflicted, just as indeed it happened, and you know. Because of this, I also, when I[a] could endure it no longer, sent in order to know your faith, lest somehow the tempter tempted you and our labor should be in vain.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 3:5 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“could endure”) which is understood as temporal