Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.
Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation, х tee (G3588) parakleesei (G3874)]. As the same word is in the next verse properly rendered "exhorted," the meaning is thought by some (as Beza, Meyer, Humphry, Webster and Wilkinson) to be 'they rejoiced for the exhortation' or 'advice,' (as in margin.) But since the prevalent feeling which this Letter would produce at Antioch was that of relief at the liberty from Jewish bondage which the zealots would fain have imposed upon them, and since 'exhortation' or 'advice' is not the burden of the Letter-not least what they naturally would "rejoice for" - we are inclined to prefer the sense of "consolation," as in our version (in which Luther, Calvin, Grotius, Beza, DeWette, Alford, and Lechler concur).