As (emphatic):” we lived holily — just (in fact) as you remember we tried to induce each one of you to live.”
Every one, — Now they appeal to the individual recollection of the Thessalonians. It gives us an incidental glimpse of the apostolic method, — which was, to deal with individual souls. (Comp. Acts 20:20; Acts 20:31; Colossians 1:21.) St. Chrysostom exclaims: “Fancy! not one in all that multitude passed over!” The image is changed from that of motherly tenderness to that of fatherly direction.
Comforted is here used as almost equivalent to “exhorted,” or, rather, encouraged, when the moral aspirations were beginning to flag.
Charged. — Better, adjured; so Galatians 5:3.