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 breastplate to protect our "heart." Hope of salvation. As a helmet to protect our "head." The Christian's fight is against wicked spiritual forces (Ephesians 6:12). (Compare Ephesians 6:13-18.)
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...
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...
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
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...
LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT (1 Thessalonians 5:1-11)...
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...
BREASTPLATE. Greek. _thorax._ See Ephesians 6:14. FAITH. App-150. LOVE. App-135. HELMET. Greek. _perikephalaia._ See Ephesians 6:17....
_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...
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
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...
§ 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
5:8 hope (a-23) Compare 1 Corinthians 13:13 . 'faith, hope, love, these three things.'...
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)....
A new metaphor (cp. Ephesians 6:13; Isaiah 59:17), but suggested by the idea of watchfulness....
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...
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,...
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...
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...
περὶ τῶν χρόνων καὶ τῶν καιρῶν....
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...
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...
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...
(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...
The Christian's panoply is not faith alone, but faith, hope and charity, as we see here....
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. Ver. 8. _Be sober_] Drunkenness misbeseemeth any man, but especially...
_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...
BREASTPLATE-HELMET; see Ephesians 6:13-18, and notes....
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....
The alertness and vigilance of the Christians:...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
1 Thessalonians 5:8 But G1161 let G3525 us G2249 are G5607 (G5752) day G2250 sober G3525 (G5725) on...
‘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...
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,...
_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...
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...
SALVATION (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16). _...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
_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...
1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 5:8 BREASTPLATE... HELMET. Paul echoes Isaiah 59:17, where the Lord is a warrior wearing armor (see...
_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...
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...
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...
1 Corinthians 13:13; 1 John 1:7; 1 John 3:1; 1 Peter 1:13; 1 Peter 1:3
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:...
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...