‘Wherefore comfort one another with these words.'

The word for comfort is parakaleo, ‘comfort, strengthen, firmly assist'. The first comfort is found in that they need no longer fear at the thought of those who die in Christ missing out. They will share all the glory of His coming. The second, of course, is in that these words are a comfort and a strengthener to all Christians, especially when the going gets tough. For all the sacrifices of ‘training' for success have the reaching of the objective firmly in mind.

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