Discovery Box1 Thessalonians 2:8 
Context2:8 with such affection for you 1 we were happy 2 to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become dear to us.
1 Thessalonians 2:16
Context2:16 because they hinder us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they constantly fill up their measure of sins, 3 but wrath 4 has come upon them completely. 5
1 tn Grk “longing for you in this way.”
2 tn Or “we are happy.” This verb may be past or present tense, but the context favors the past.
3 tn Grk “to fill up their sins always.”
4 tc The Western text (D F G latt) adds τοῦ θεοῦ (tou qeou) to ὀργή (orgh) to read “the wrath of God,” in emulation of the normal Pauline idiom (cf., e.g., Rom 1:18; Eph 5:6; Col 3:6) and, most likely, to clarify which wrath is in view (since ὀργή is articular).
tn Or “the wrath,” possibly referring back to the mention of wrath in 1:10.
5 tn Or “at last.”
