Thus, yearning after you, we could have been well-pleased to impart unto you - not only the glad-message of God, but, our own lives also, - because, very dear to us, had ye become.

Wherefore, no longer concealing our anxiety, we were well-pleased to be left in Athens, alone,

For, ye yourselves, perfectly well know - that, the day of the Lord, as a thief in the night, so, cometh;