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2 Thessalonians 3:8
Instead, we worked and tolled. Compare note on Acts 18:3. Paul places strong emphasis on the moral discipline of work.
Instead, we worked and tolled. Compare note on Acts 18:3. Paul places strong emphasis on the moral discipline of work.
2 THESSALONIANS 3:8 nukto.j kai. h`me,raj A majority of the Committee preferred the reading with the genitives (supported by a B F G 33 81 104 255 256 263 442 1611 1845 1908 2005), which is in confor...
Verse 8. _NEITHER DID WE EAT ANY MAN'S BREAD FOR NAUGHT_] We paid for what we bought, and worked with our hands that we might have money to buy what was necessary. _LABOUR AND TRAVAIL NIGHT AND DAY_...
NEITHER DID WE EAT ANY MAN’S BREAD FOR NOUGHT - We were not supported in idleness at the expense of others. We gave a fair equivalent for all that we received, and, in fact, labored for our own suppor...
III. THANKSGIVING, PRAYER, EXHORTATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS Chapter S 2:13-3:18 _ 1. Thanksgiving and prayer (2 Thessalonians 2:13)_ 2. Prayer for the Word and for deliverance (2 Thessalonians 3:1) 3....
THE REBUKE TO THE DISORDERLY. Under _the_ influence of the Parousia Hope some Thessalonian Christians abandoned their ordinary occupations and claimed the right to be supported by the Church. Paul poi...
2 THESSALONIANS 3. FINAL COUNSELS AND EXHORTATIONS. The apostle (_a)_ asks for the prayers of the Thessalonian Christians on his own behalf (2 Thessalonians 3:1); (_b_) warns them against dis orderly...
A FINAL WORD (2 Thessalonians 3:1-5)...
Brothers, we command you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, keep yourselves from every brother who behaves like a truant from duty and who does not conduct himself in accordance with the teaching w...
NEITHER. Greek. _oude._ ANY MAN'S BREAD. bread from (Greek. _para,_ App-104.) any one (App-123.) FOR NOUGHT. Greek. _dorean._ See John 15:25. WROUGHT. working. WITH. App-104. TRAVAIL. Greek. _moch...
_neither did we eat any_man's _bread for nought_ This clause follows up and makes application of the last, showing by contrast in what lay the chief complaint against the "brethren walking disorderly....
Section V. Discipline for the Disorderly Ch. 2 Thessalonians 3:6-15 In his former letter St Paul had found it needful to exhort his readers to live a quiet life and to attend to their daily duties a...
ΝΥΚΤΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΗΜΕΡΑΣ, אBG and six minn.; νυκτα και ημεραν, ADKLP &c. See Expository Note. 8. ΟΥ̓ΔῈ ΔΩΡΕᾺΝ ἌΡΤΟΝ ἘΦΆΓΟΜΕΝ ΠΑΡΆ ΤΙΝΟΣ, _nor indeed ate bread for nought at the hand of any one_: whereas the...
§ 5. 2 Thessalonians 3:6-15. THE CASE OF THE IDLERS This section contains the chief matter pointed to in ΤῸ ΛΟΙΠΌΝ of 2 Thessalonians 3:1 (see note above). But the added homily is no afterthought; it...
ΔΩΡΕΆΝ (G1432) даром, бесплатно, безвозмездно. В одном месте в папирусе это слово используется по отношению к работе бесплатно или за мизерную плату (Milligan; MM; Moore). О ситуации в Фессалонике _см...
TEXT (2 Thessalonians 3:7-8) 7 FOR YOURSELVES KNOW HOW YE OUGHT TO IMITATE US: FOR WE BEHAVED NOT OURSELVES DISORDERLY AMONG YOU; 8 NEITHER DID WE EAT BREAD FOR NOUGHT AT ANY MAN'S HAND, BUT IN LABOR...
Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you: EAT ANY MAN'S BREAD - Greek, 'eat bread from any ma...
EXHORTATIONS, REBUKES, AND BENEDICTION 2. Unreasonable] almost 'outrageous.' FAITH] better, 'the Faith.'...
Cp. 1 Thessalonians 2:9....
THE *LORD HAS NOT COME YET 2 THE THESSALONIANS _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 3 A REQUEST FOR PRAYER 3:1-2 V1 For the rest, *brothers and *sisters, please pray for us. Ask the *Lord that he will use us...
NEITHER. — They might have thought it possible to live on others without incurring so serious a charge as “disorderliness.” EAT ANY MAN’S BREAD. — Still more literally, _eat bread from any man_ — _i.e...
CHAPTER 23 THE CHRISTIAN WORTH OF LABOUR 2 Thessalonians 3:6 (R.V.) THIS passage is very similar in contents to one in the fourth chapter of the First Epistle. The difference between the two is in t...
Paul's practice of a trade and emphasis upon the moral discipline of work are quite in keeping with the best Jewish traditions of the period. Compare _e.g._, the saying of Gamaliel II. (_Kiddusch_. i....
Injunctions upon church-life and order....
SEPARATE; INDUSTRIOUS; PERSEVERING 2 Thessalonians 3:6 From his high expectations of the Advent, the Apostle turns to the prosaic commonplaces of daily toil. There was need for this, because the expe...
In conclusion the apostle urged them to pray for him that the preaching of the Word in other places might be with power and victory. He affirmed his confidence in them, and expressed his desire for th...
PAUL'S EXAMPLE AMONG THEM Paul urged them to remember the example he had set when in Thessalonica (1 Thessalonians 2:9). He had worked night and day so that they might hear the gospel and he could ear...
_Burthensome. By the Greek, he understands those who being idle, and not keeping themselves employed, lead a disorderly life. (Witham)_...
(6) В¶ Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us....
The second epistle takes up another difficulty. It was written in view of another abuse of the truth of the Lord's coming a danger that threatened the saints. As the first epistle was intended to guar...
There is nothing very particular in the apostle's exhortations. His great concern was the explanation which we have been considering. He prays that God and the Lord Jesus Himself, who had given them t...
NEITHER DID WE EAT ANY MAN'S BREAD FOR NOUGHT.... Or freely, at free cost, without paying for it; he signifies, that what they ate, they bought with their own money, and lived on no man, without givin...
Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you: Ver. 8. _Any man's bread for nought_] But earned it be...
_We command you, brethren_ We solemnly charge you; _in the name of the Lord._ (see on 1 Corinthians 5:4,) the credit and progress of whose religion are so nearly concerned in the matter; _that ye with...
NEITHER DID WE EAT ANY MAN'S BREAD FOR NAUGHT, BUT WROUGHT WITH LABOR AND TRAVAIL NIGHT AND DAY THAT WE MIGHT NOT BE CHARGEABLE TO ANY OF YOU;...
A warning against disorderly conduct, with Paul's example of right living:...
As in the first epistle, so the apostle again asks for their prayers: first for the positive blessing of the Word of God which thy proclaimed that it might have free course to go forward and be glorif...
“NEITHER DID WE EAT BREAD FOR NOUGHT AT ANY MAN'S HAND, BUT IN LABOR AND TRAVAIL, WORKING NIGHT AND DAY, THAT WE MIGHT NOT BURDEN ANY OF YOU” “Eat bread”: “Is. Hebraism which means ‘to take food' and...
6-15 Those who have received the gospel, are to live according to the gospel. Such as could work, and would not, were not to be maintained in idleness. Christianity is not to countenance slothfulness...
OLBGrk; NEITHER DID WE EAT ANY MAN'S BREAD FOR NOUGHT: the apostle here gives a particular positive instance of what before he speaks negatively, and in general; and brings his discourse home to the p...
neither did we eat bread for nought [gratis, without compensation] _at any man's hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you_ [1 Thessalonians 2:9]:...
Cyprian Epistle V Let them also follow the example of the Apostle Paul, who, after often-repeated imprisonment, after scourging, after exposures to wild beasts, in everything continued meek and humbl...
2 Thessalonians 3:8 nor G3761 eat G5315 (G5627) anyones G3844 G5100 bread G740 charge G1432 but G235 work
_Exhortations to Industry, and Directions regarding the Treatment of Idle and Disorderly Persons._ In this concluding paragraph of his Epistle, Paul warns the Thessalonians against neglecting their wo...
FOR NOUGHT (δωρεαν). Adverbial accusative, as a gift, gift-wise (δωρεα, gift, from διδωμ). Same claim made to the Corinthians (2 Corinthians 11:7), old word, in LXX, and papyri. He lodged with Jason...
2 Thessalonians 3:6 I. In this passage the Apostle teaches the Thessalonians that in tranquillity, sedateness of heart and life, they are severally, not only to work, but to do their own work, and so...
2 Thessalonians 3:1. _Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:_ A most important request. What can the ministers of th...
CONTENTS: Paul's encouragements and exhortations to the Thessalonians. CHARACTERS: Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: It is required of those who have professed Christianity, that they live according to the p...
2 Thessalonians 3:1. _Finally, brethren, pray for us._ This request is of constant occurrence. Ephesians 6:18. Paul often ascribes his preservation to the prayers of the saints. He solicits prayer tha...
2 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 2 THESSALONIANS 3:7 The missionaries had taught the need to work for a living both by example and through instruction. ⇐...
2 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 2 THESSALONIANS 3:8 EAT ANYONE’S BREAD WITHOUT PAYING FOR IT. Paul refused to depend on others for his living. He took on manual labor in addition to his ministry commitments t...
2 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 2 THESSALONIANS 3:6 The Problem of Lazy Christians. Paul instructs the Thessalonians to discipline those refusing to work....
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— 2 Thessalonians 3:8_ Self-denying Labour. Pioneer work involves hard toil and much patience and self-denial. The character and surroundings of the people whose hig...
EXPOSITION CONTENTS.—The apostle now comes to the conclusion of his Epistle. He beseeches the Thessalonians for an interest in their prayers, that the gospel may be rapidly diffused and glorified by n...
Finally, brethren, pray for us (2 Thessalonians 3:1), Now again Paul is calling for prayer for him. I think that maybe sometimes we are guilty of not praying for those in spiritual leadership feeling...
1 Corinthians 4:12; 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 1 Thessalonians 4:11; 2 Corinthians 11:9;...
Any man's bread [α ρ τ ο ν π α ρ α τ ι ν ο ς]. Lit. bread from any one, or at any man's hand. For nought [δ ω ρ ε α ν]. The word is a noun, meaning a gift. See John 4:10; Acts 2:38; Romans 5:15. The a...