For not only did the message of the Lord ring out from you to Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone out to every place, so that we have no need to say anything more.
8 For from you sounded forth. Here we have an elegant metaphor, by which he intimates that their faith was so lively, “Si viue et vertueuse;” — “So lively and virtuous.” that it did, as it were, by its sound, arouse other nations.
In these words we have the evidence of the apostle's success among the Thessalonians, which was notorious and famous in several places. For, I. They were careful in their holy conversation to imitate the good examples of the apostles and ministers of Christ, Th1 1:6.
Commenting on 1 Thessalonians 1:6-10
For from you sounded out the word of the Lord,.... By which is meant the Gospel, and is so called because it is from the Lord, as the author of it: and it is of the Lord, as the subject of it; and it is by the Lord, as the minister or dispenser of it; and it is owing to the efficacy of his grace...