Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
Ver. 13. But was let hitherto] Either by Satan,1 Thessalonians 2:18; or by the Holy Spirit otherwise disposing of him, as Acts 19:6,7; or by some intervenient but important occasion, as Romans 15:20,21 .