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Verse 8. _PUTTING ON THE BREASTPLATE_] We are not only called to
WORK, but we are called also to _fight_; and that we may not be
surprised, we must _watch_; and that we may be in a condition to
defen...
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BUT LET US, WHO ARE OF THE DAY, BE SOBER - Temperate, as people
usually are in the daytime.
PUTTING ON THE BREAST-PLATE OF FAITH AND LOVE - This is a favorite
comparison of the apostle Paul; see it e...
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V. THE DAY OF THE LORD AND EXHORTATIONS
CHAPTER 5
_ 1. The day of the Lord 1 Thessalonians 5:1)_
2. Exhortations 1 Thessalonians 5:12)
3. Conclusions 1 Thes
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PAUL'S WARNING TO THE CHRISTIANS TO BE PREPARED FOR THE PAROUSIA.
1 Thessalonians 5:2. as a thief in the night: _ cf._ the words of
Jesus (Matthew 24:43). Throughout this paragraph the suddenness of...
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LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT (1 Thessalonians 5:1-11)...
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You have no need, brothers, that anything should be written to you
about the times and seasons; for you yourselves well know that, as a
thief in the night, so the day of the Lord comes. When they are...
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BREASTPLATE. Greek. _thorax._ See Ephesians 6:14.
FAITH. App-150.
LOVE. App-135.
HELMET. Greek. _perikephalaia._ See Ephesians 6:17....
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_But let us, who are of the day, be sober_ Better, SINCE WE ARE OF THE
DAY (R. V.); comp. notes on "sober" (1 Thessalonians 5:6), and "day"
(1 Thessalonians 5:5).
_Watchfulness_has been sufficiently u...
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Section VI. The Coming of the Lord Jesus
Ch. 1 Thessalonians 4:13 to 1 Thessalonians 5:11
This solemn topic, as we have already seen (note on ch. 1
Thessalonians 1:10, and Intro
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Section VI. (continued): 1 Thessalonians 5:1
The first part of this Chapter stands in close connection with the
last six verses of ch. 4. Together they form the most distinctive and
the weightiest se...
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§ 9. 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11. The Coming of the Day
The second misgiving of the Thessalonians respecting the
παρουσία (see _Introd._ to § 8, and general _Introd._ p.
xxxvi.) was closely connected with...
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ἩΜΕΙ͂Σ ΔῈ ἩΜΈΡΑΣ ὌΝΤΕΣ ΝΉΦΩΜΕΝ: _but let
us, since we are of the day_ (not _qui diei sumus_, Vulg., &c., as if
οἱ … ὄντες; but _quum diei simus_), _be sober_. The
νήφω of 1 Thessalonians 5:6 is resume...
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ΌΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть,
ΈΝΔΥΣΆΜΕΝΟΙ _aor. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΈΝΔΎΩ
(G1746) одеваться, надевать. _Aor. part._
выражает действие, идентичное или
одновременное по отношению к...
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DISCOURSE: 2204
THE DUTIES OF MODERATION AND WATCHFULNESS
1 Thessalonians 5:8. _Let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on
the breast-plate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of
sal...
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DISCOURSE: 2203
WATCHFULNESS ENJOINED
1 Thessalonians 5:1. Of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have
no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the
day of the Lord so come...
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PUTTING ON THE BREASTPLATE OF FAITH AND LOVE, &C.— The breast and
head being particularly exposed in battle, and wounds in these parts
being extremely dangerous, the ancients carefully defended the br...
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TEXT (1 Thessalonians 5:8)
8 BUT LET US, SINCE WE ARE OF THE DAY, BE SOBER, PUTTING ON THE
BREASTPLATE OF FAITH AND LOVE; AND FOR A HELMET, THE HOPE OF
SALVATION.
Translation and Paraphrase
8.
But...
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But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate
of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
Faith, hope, and love, the three pre-eminent graces (; ). We must n...
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THE LORD'S PRESENCE THOSE DROWSING
THOSE DROWSING
4 The day of the Lord with its terrors and destruction is not for us.
The cry of "peace and security" should not lull us to sleep. We should
be on t...
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5:8 hope (a-23) Compare 1 Corinthians 13:13 . 'faith, hope, love,
these three things.'...
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THE NEED OF WATCHFULNESS. FINAL INJUNCTIONS
1. Times and seasons] St. Paul always lays stress on the uncertainty
as to the TIME of the Advent (2 Thessalonians 2:2 cp. 2 Peter 3:3)....
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A new metaphor (cp. Ephesians 6:13; Isaiah 59:17), but suggested by
the idea of watchfulness....
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WHEN JESUS CHRIST COMES
1 THE THESSALONIANS
_IAN MACKERVOY_
A word list is at the end. It explains words with a *star by them.
CHAPTER 5
WHEN THE *LORD WILL COME 5:1-11
V1 Now, brothers and s...
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PUTTING ON. — A curiously abrupt transition, suggested by the sober
vigilance just advocated. The Christian must be careful to watch, not
only because the Lord is coming back at some unexpected hour,...
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CHAPTER 12
THE DAY OF THE LORD
1 Thessalonians 5:1 (R.V.)
THE last verses of the fourth chapter perfect that which is lacking,
on one side, in the faith of the Thessalonians. The Apostle addresses
h...
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ἐνδυσάμενοι θώρακα κ. τ. λ., the thought of 1
Thessalonians 2:12-13; the mutual love of Christians, which forms the
practical expression of their faith in God, is their true fitness and
equipment for...
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περὶ τῶν χρόνων καὶ τῶν καιρῶν....
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READY FOR “THE DAY OF THE LORD”
1 Thessalonians 5:1
To the Apostle “the day of the Lord” was near. He expected it in
his lifetime, and if we remember that the Lord's words with reference
to it were...
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Under the figure of a camp in which fully armed soldiers are waiting
for the break of day, while those not expecting this are sleeping and
drunken, the apostle shows that those waiting for the Son are...
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ENCOURAGEMENT TO WATCHFULNESS
Sinful people, in contrast, are part of the kingdom of darkness. Those
without a hope of being raised from the dead are like a guard who
sleeps on duty. Instead of being...
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(3) But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the
breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of
salvation.
(3) We must fight with faith and hope, and therefore we should
ce...
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The Christian's panoply is not faith alone, but faith, hope and
charity, as we see here....
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(4) But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should
overtake you as a thief. (5) Ye are all the children of light, and the
children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. (6...
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There is a special interest in examining the epistles to the
Thessalonians, more particularly the first, because, in point of fact,
it was the earliest of the letters of the apostles; and as the first...
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8_Having put on the breastplate_. He adds this, that he may the more
effectually shake us out of our stupidity, for he calls us as it were
to arms, that he may shew that it is not a time to sleep. It...
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The Lord's coming again into this world assumes therefore a very
different character from that of a vague object of hope to a believer
as a period of glory. In Chapter 5 the apostle speaks of it, but...
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BUT LET US, WHO ARE OF THE DAY, BE SOBER,.... As in body, so in mind;
let us cast off the works of darkness, and have no fellowship with
them; since the day of grace has passed upon us, the darkness i...
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_For they that sleep, sleep in the night_, &c. Night is the time for
sleep, and they that are guilty of drunkenness, gluttony, and other
vices of intemperance, generally choose to hide them under the...
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BREASTPLATE-HELMET; see Ephesians 6:13-18, and notes....
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BUT LET US, WHO ARE OF THE DAY, BE SOBER, PUTTING ON THE BREASTPLATE
OF FAITH AND LOVE, AND FOR AN HELMET THE HOPE OF SALVATION....
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The alertness and vigilance of the Christians:...
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In contrast to the new revelation Paul gives at the end of ch. 4, he
now tells them in ch. 5 that "of the times and seasons" there was no
need to write, for this was a matter of which they were well a...
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D. The certainty of Christ's coming, 5:1-11
1 BUT OF THE TIMES AND THE SEASONS, BRETHREN, YE HAVE NO NEED THAT I
WRITE UNTO YOU.
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh a...
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“BUT LET US, SINCE WE ARE OF THE DAY, BE SOBER, PUTTING ON THE
BREASTPLATE OF FAITH AND LOVE; AND FOR. HELMET, THE HOPE OF
SALVATION”
“But”: In contrast to the indifference and immorality found among...
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6-11 Most of mankind do not consider the things of another world at
all, because they are asleep; or they do not consider them aright,
because they sleep and dream. Our moderation as to all earthly t...
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The apostle here commands two spiritual duties, and the former is
sobriety; which he mentioned before, 1 THESSALONIANS 5:6, as a
preparation for Christ's coming; but here, as that which was suitable
t...
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But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the
breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of
salvation. [The idea that the thief comes in the night as set forth in
verse...
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1 Thessalonians 5:8 But G1161 let G3525 us G2249 are G5607 (G5752) day
G2250 sober G3525 (G5725) on...
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‘So then let us not sleep as do the rest, but let us watch and be
sober, for those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are
drunken, are drunken in the night, but let us, since we are of the
d...
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_Exhortation to Sobriety and Watchfulness, founded in the Suddenness
of the Lord's Coming, and on their Character as Children of Light._
Having spoken so definitely of the Lord's coming, Paul anticipa...
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1 Thessalonians 5:8. PATTING ON THE BREASTPLATE OF FAITH AND LOVE. His
exhortation to sobriety and watchfulness has suggested to him his
favourite image of the soldier, or here specially the sentinel,...
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PUTTING ON THE BREASTPLATE OF FAITH AND LOVE
(ενδυσαμενο θωρακα πιστεως κα αγαπης).
First aorist (ingressive) middle participle of ενδυω. The same
figure of breastplate in Ephesians 6:14, only there...
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SALVATION
(_ See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16). _...
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1 Thessalonians 5:8
The Work and Armour of the Children of the Day.
I. First, this central injunction, into which all the moral teaching
drawn from the second coming of Christ is gathered "Let us be...
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1 Thessalonians 5:1
I. The Apostle having disclosed much in the foregoing verses about the
Lord's second coming, and the respective shares in its glory which are
to fall to those of His people who are...
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1 Thessalonians 5:1. _But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye
have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that
the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night._
It...
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CONTENTS: The model walk for the believer. The day of Jehovah.
Exhortations to believers.
CHARACTERS: Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul.
CONCLUSION: Let Christians live like men who are awake, living in
cons...
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1 Thessalonians 5:1. _Of the times and seaso_n _s, ye have no need
that I write to you._ Paul as a prophet might have said much
concerning the dispensations of providence which should attend the
churc...
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BUT WE BELONG TO THE DAY. The fact that he stresses this, may imply
that some were not living this way. He uses the symbolism of a
soldier's armor to emphasize what he is saying. FAITH AND LOVE. As a...
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_But of the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write
unto you--Perhaps because the apostle had told them, or because the
sudden coming of Christ was a universal belief._
So in modern...
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_But let us, who are of the day, be sober _
GOOD COUNSEL
I. The condition to be shunned. Christians must keep their natural
desires and appetites after the things of this world within due
bounds. “Le...
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1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 5:8 BREASTPLATE... HELMET.
Paul echoes Isaiah 59:17, where the Lord is a warrior wearing armor
(see...
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_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_
1 Thessalonians 5:1. TIMES AND SEASONS.—The one is the even,
continuous flow of the river, the other is the cataract. Seasons we
may represent as epochs. Our Lord in...
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EXPOSITION
CONTENTS.—With regard to the time of that glorious advent when
believers, whether dead or living, will be gathered together to
Christ, the Thessalonians had already been fully instructed. T...
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But of the times and seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write
unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so
cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace...
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1 Corinthians 13:13; 1 John 1:7; 1 John 3:1; 1 Peter 1:13; 1 Peter 1:3
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Putting on [ε ν δ υ σ α μ ε ν ο ι]. The son of day clothes
himself for the day's work or battle. The same association of ideas as
in vv. 6, 8, is found in Romans 13:12-14; Revelation 16:15; 1 Peter
1:...
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THE LORD'S COMING
1 Thessalonians 5:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The question up for discussion is one of utmost importance. If it is
true that the Lord's Coming is near, and that at any moment we may
hear...