Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
The Lord Jesus, х Ton (G3588) Kurion (G2962) Ieesoun (G2424)] - 'Jesus THE LORD.' This enhances the enormity of their sin: in killing Jesus they killed the LORD (cf. Acts 3:14-15).
Their own. Omitted in 'Aleph (') A B Delta G f g, Vulgate.
Prophets (Matthew 21:33-41; Matthew 23:31-37; Luke 13:33.)
Persecuted us, [margin, ekdiooxantoon (G1559)] - 'by persecution drove us out' (Luke 11:49). Their killing the prophets and persecuting us refutes the plea of ignorance (Acts 3:17).
Please not God - are habitually pursuing a course not pleasing to God, notwithstanding their boast of being God's special people, as certainly as, by the universal voice of the world, they are declared to be perversely "contrary to all men." Josephus, their own historian (Apion, 2: 14), represents one calling them 'atheists and misanthropes, the dullest of barbarians;' and Tacitus ('Histories,' 1 Thessalonians 2:5), 'they have a hostile hatred toward all others.' The contrariety to all men here is, that they 'forbid us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved' (1 Thessalonians 2:16).