McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries
2 Thessalonians 1:7
and to you that are afflicted rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power in flaming fire,
and to you that are afflicted rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power in flaming fire,
Verse 7. _AND TO YOU WHO ARE TROUBLED, REST WITH US_] And while they have _tribulation_, you shall have that eternal _rest_ which remains for the people of God. _WHEN THE LORD JESUS SHALL BE REVEALED...
AND TO YOU WHO ARE TROUBLED - That is, “it will be a righteous thing for God to give to you who are persecuted rest in the last day.” As it will be right and proper to punish the wicked, so it will he...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE REVELATION OF THE LORD JESUS FROM HEAVEN CHAPTER 1 _ 1. Salutation and thanksgiving (2 Thessalonians 1:1)_ 2. The revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven (2 Thessa...
Introductory. Thanksgiving for the past and prayer for the future. Paul thanks God for the growing love of the Thessalonian Christians and their loyalty under persecution, and prays that they may be c...
LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS (2 Thessalonians 1:1-10)...
Paul and Silas and Timothy send this letter to the Church of the Thessalonians which is in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Brothers, we ought always to thank God for you, as it is fitting, b...
REST. Greek. _anesis._ See Acts 24:23. WITH. App-104. WHEN, &C. = in (Greek. _en)_ the revelation (App-106.) of. LORD. App-98. JESUS. App-98. HEAVEN. Singular. See Matthew 6:9;...
_rest with us_ St Paul's was a life full of harassment and fatigue, and the hope of _rest_was sweet to him (note the outburst of Galatians 6:17). Men of an easy untroubled life miss the delight of the...
Section II. The Approaching Retribution Ch. 2 Thessalonians 1:5-12 These _vv._contain further reasons for _thanksgiving_on the writer's part, concluding with a _prayer_that his readers may receive th...
§ 2. 2 Thessalonians 1:5-12. THE APPROACHING JUDGEMENT The thought of the recompense awaiting the persecuted Thessalonian Church and its persecutors, respectively, swells the opening thanksgiving of t...
ἐν φλογι πυρος is the reading of BDG 47 71, vg cop syr pesh, hcl txt, Tert; it appears to be a conformation to Isaiah 66:15; Exodus 3:2 (_Hebrew_): so Acts 7:30, with a _varia lectio_;...
ΘΛΙΒΟΜΈΝΟΙΣ _praes. pass. part. от_ ΘΛΊΒΩ (G2346) подвергать давлению (_см._ 2 Thessalonians 1:6). ΆΝΕΣΙΣ (G425) послабление, отдых. В классическом греческом это слово обозначало отвязывание каната ...
DISCOURSE: 2211 CHRIST’S COMING TO JUDGE THE WORLD 2 Thessalonians 1:7. The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God,...
DISCOURSE: 2210 THE STATE OF THE THESSALONIAN CHURCH 2 Thessalonians 1:3. We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charit...
SEEING IT IS A RIGHTEOUS THING WITH GOD, &C.— _His justice is equally concerned to afflict those in their turns who have afflicted you;_ 2 Thessalonians 1:7 _and to grant to you who have been afflicte...
TEXT (2 Thessalonians 1:6-7) 6 IF SO BE THAT IT IS A RIGHTEOUS THING WITH GOD TO RECOMPENSE AFFLICTION TO THEM THAT AFFLICT YOU, 7 AND TO YOU THAT ARE AFFLICTED REST WITH US, AT THE REVELATION OF THE...
And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, REST - governed by "to recompense" (2 Thessalonians 1:6) [ Anesin (G425), relaxat...
While Silvanus and Timothy are associated with Paul in this salutation, the epistle is practically by Paul himself and its genuineness is attested at the close by Paul's own signature (2Th_3:17). THA...
SALUTATIONS. THE SECOND ADVENT 1-4. Greeting and thanksgiving for their constant faith and love and patience under persecution: cp. 1 Thessalonians 1:3. 5-C. 2 THESSALONIANS 2:17. The Coming of Chri...
REST] better, 'relief.' The true rest and relief comes to the faithful when Christ comes....
THE *LORD HAS NOT COME YET 2 THE THESSALONIANS _IAN MACKERVOY_ ABOUT THE LETTER 1 THE WRITERS Like 1 Thessalonians, this letter is from Paul, Silas and Timothy. The writer of this letter used th...
REST WITH US. — Why “with us”? It shows sympathy in their present trials, for it implies that the writers themselves had earned or were earning (see Acts 18:12) that rest by the like trials. The word...
CHAPTER 18 SUFFERING AND GLORY 2 Thessalonians 1:5 (R.V.) IN the preceding verses of this chapter, as in the opening of the First Epistle, the Apostle has spoken of the afflictions of the Thessaloni...
The address (2 Thessalonians 1:1-2) is followed first by a thanksgiving (2 Thessalonians 1:3-10) which passes into a prophetic piece of consolation, and then by a brief prayer (2 T
After noting the principle of recompence (2 Thessalonians 1:5-7 _a_), Paul proceeds (7 _b_ 10), to dwell on its time and setting, especially in its punitive aspect. He consoles the Thessalonians by de...
FAITHFUL THROUGH FAITH IN A RIGHTEOUS GOD 2 Thessalonians 1:1 Notice the remarkable couplets of this chapter. Grace and peace, 2 Thessalonians 1:2; faith and love, 2 Thessalonians 1:3
Evidently, this letter was intended primarily to correct certain mistakes which the Thessalonians were making concerning the Second Advent. They were failing to distinguish between the two phases, the...
GOD'S COMING JUDGMENT The very fact that they were able to endure such hardships was a clear indication that God was with them. It also foreshadowed a day when God would judge all and punish those who...
And to you who are troubled rest (4) with us, (5) when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, (4) He strengthens and encourages them also along the way by this means, th...
(7) And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, (8) In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey no...
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...
7_When the Lord shall be manifested_. Here we have a confirmation of the foregoing statement. For as it is one of the articles of our faith, that Christ will come from heaven, and will not come in vai...
In the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, the apostle corrects some errors into which these disciples had fallen with regard to the day of the Lord through certain false teachers; as in part of the...
AND TO YOU WHO ARE TROUBLED, REST WITH US,.... This is another branch of the justice of God, in rendering to them who are afflicted and persecuted for righteousness sake, "rest"; a relaxation or rest...
And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, Ver. 7. _Rest with us_] As Noah's ark, after much tossing, rested upon the mountain...
_Seeing it is a righteous thing_ However men may judge of it; _with God_ To whom _belongeth vengeance_, (Romans 12:19,) and who _will avenge his elect that cry unto him day and night; to recompense tr...
WHEN THE LORD JESUS SHALL BE REVEALED; at the day of judgment....
AND TO YOU WHO ARE TROUBLED REST WITH US, WHEN THE LORD JESUS SHALL BE REVEALED FROM HEAVEN WITH HIS MIGHTY ANGELS,...
PAUL'S PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING AND INTERCESSION. A prayer of thanksgiving for steadfastness in the midst of afflictions:...
(V. 1) Again, the same brotherly character of address is used as in the first epistle. The threatened dangers to the Thessalonians did not change this, except in the use of the more gentle expression...
God is righteous and will judge all men righteously. "To recompense" means he will pay back with a full and complete payment. God is a God of mercy and love. He is also a God of justice and wrath. (Ro...
HIS MIGHTY ANGELS: _ Gr._ the angels of his power...
“AND TO YOU THAT ARE AFFLICTED REST WITH US, AT THE REVELATION OF THE LORD JESUS FROM HEAVEN WITH THE ANGELS OF HIS POWER IN FLAMING FIRE” “And to you”: Notice that the wicked and the righteous are b...
5-10 Religion, if worth anything, is worth every thing; and those have no religion, or none worth having, or know not how to value it, cannot find their hearts to suffer for it. We cannot by all our...
OLBGrk; Having spoken of the recompence of the troublers, here of the TROUBLED: and in this we may observe a parallel, as in the former. The recompence to these is expressed by REST; in the Greek, dis...
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‘And to you who are afflicted rest with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from Heaven, with the angels of his power, in flaming fire, rendering vengeance to those who do not know God, and to thos...
2 Thessalonians 1:7. BEST. To those suffering persecution no promise could present greater attraction. ‘Their rest is not the rest of a stone, cold and lifeless, but of wearied humanity. They rest fro...
_Salutation Thanksgiving for the Faith of the Thessalonian Church under Persecution, Assurance of Compensation, and Prayer for the perfecting of their Faith._ Paul informs the Thessalonians of the emo...
REST WITH US (ανεσιν μεθ' ημων). Let up, release. Old word from ανιημ, from troubles here (2 Corinthians 2:13; 2 Corinthians 7:5; 2 Corinthians 8:13), and hereafter as in this verse. Vivid word....
ANGELS (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...
2 Thessalonians 1:7 The rest awaiting Christ's troubled saints is in the fullest sense to be their possession at the revelation of the Lord Jesus. He who is emphatically the coming One is to be revea...
2 Thessalonians 1:1 I. This Epistle opens with the mention of the same Apostolic group as does the first. Paul was not alone: Silvanus and Timotheus were still with him in closest fellowship of toil a...
2 Thessalonians 1:1. _Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord J...
2 Thessalonians 1:1. _Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians_ Paul loved to associate his fellow-workers with himself when writing to his brethren and sisters in Chri...
CONTENTS: Believer's comfort in persecution. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Silvanus, Timothy. CONCLUSION: The patient suffering of believers for Christ's sake, is a manifest token that they are wor...
2 Thessalonians 1:1. _Paul, and Silvanus,_ [the Roman name of Silas] _and Timotheus, to the church of the Thessalonians, in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ._ The inscription is the same as in...
AND HE WILL GIVE RELIEF TO YOU. God will _be just_ in this as well! HE WILL DO THIS WHEN. See notes on Revelation 14:13; Revelation 22:11-12....
_Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; and to you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed _ THE TWO TROUBLES AND THE...
_When the Lord Jesus Christ shall be revealed from heaven--This passage both consolatory and doctrinal--consolation designed for a persecuted Church--instruction for the world._ Our subject: the gene...
2 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 2 THESSALONIANS 1:7 WHEN THE LORD JESUS IS REVEALED FROM HEAVEN (see 1 Thessalonians 4:16). Jesus is called “Lord.” This
2 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 2 THESSALONIANS 1:6 God judges fairly. Those now causing trouble for the Thessalonian Christians will be afflicted. The believers will get RELIEF at the second coming....
2 THESSALONIANS 1:3 Thanksgiving and Comfort for the Persecuted Thessalonians. In Greek, vv. 2 Thessalonians 1:3 are one long sentence expressing Paul’s gratefulness and words of encouragement
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 2 Thessalonians 1:5. WHICH IS A MANIFEST TOKEN—“An _indication_.” The steadfast and resolute continuance in the profession and adornment of the Christian faith, in fa...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 2 Thessalonians 1:8. IN FLAMING FIRE.—Lit. “in a fire of flame.” “Fire is a symbol of divine anger and majesty in Scripture; and flame is fire in motion, leaping and b...
EXPOSITION CONTENTS.—Paul, after the address and salutation, commences this Epistle by rendering thanks to God for the welcome intelligence he had received of the increase of the faith and love of his...
Paul had come to Thessalonica with the gospel of Jesus Christ from Philippi where, as the result of his preaching, he had been imprisoned, beaten and really ordered out of the city. There in Thessalon...
1 Peter 3:22; 1 Peter 4:1; 1 Thessalonians 4:16; 1 Thessalonians 4:17;...
Rest [α ν ε σ ι ν]. See on liberty, Acts 24:23. With this exception only in Paul. With us. According to Paul's habit of identifying his experience with that of his Christian readers. See 1 Corinthians...
That is,"As God will certainly punish your persecutors, so he will ere long give rest to you his sufferers, together with us who are companions with you in the same sufferings; you that are troubled s...