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.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
i.e. they were not (men) practising base things, but some were convinced, and the others (who were not), did nothing (of that sort). (β) Daily, it says, searching the Scriptures whether these things were so: not merely upon a sudden impetus or (burst of) zeal. More noble, it says: i. e. in point of virtue (α)Therefore many of them, etc.