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1 THESSALONIANS 3:13 auvtou/@( avmh,n#) {C}
Was avmh,n dropped by copyists who thought it inappropriate in the
body of a Pauline epistle (just as avmh,n was omitted by a scattering
of witnesses at th...
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Verse 1 Thessalonians 3:13. _TO THE END HE MAY ESTABLISH YOUR
HEARTS_] Without _love_ to God and man, there can be no establishment
in the religion of Christ. It is _love_ that produces both _solidit...
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TO THE END HE MAY STABLISH YOUR HEARTS - That is, “may the Lord
cause you to increase in love 1 Thessalonians 3:12, in order that you
may be established, and be without blame in the day of judgment.”...
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III. AFFLICTIONS AND COMFORT
CHAPTER 3
_ 1. Timotheus, Paul's messenger 1 Thessalonians 3:1)_
2. His return with good tidings and the apostle's comfort and joy 1
Thessalonians 3:6)
3. This earnest...
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THE MISSION OF TIMOTHY TO THESSALONICA. Paul's distress and anxiety
with regard to the fate of the Church led him to send Timothy upon a
mission of inquiry. He describes the effect produced upon him b...
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May he who is our God and Father and the Lord Jesus Christ direct our
way to you. May the Lord increase you and make you to abound in love
to each other and to all men, even as we do towards you, in o...
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THE PASTOR AND HIS FLOCK (1 Thessalonians 3:1-10)...
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TO THE END. App-104.
STABLISH Greek. _sterizo._ See Romans 1:11.
UNBLAMEABLE. Greek. _amemptos._ See Philippians 1:2; Philippians 1:15.
HOLINESS. Greek. _hagiosune_. See
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_to the end he may stablish your hearts_ On "stablish" see note to 1
Thessalonians 3:2; and on "hearts," ch. 1 Thessalonians 2:4; comp.
also 2 Thessalonians 2:17.
This is an O.T. phrase, f
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section iv
St Paul's Present Relations to the Thessalonians. Ch. 1 Thessalonians
2:17 to 1 Thessalonians 3:13
The Apostle had been drawn aside in the last paragraph, by a sudden
and characteristic b...
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ΑΜΕΜΠ-τως, for -ΤΟΥΣ, BL: perhaps due to 1 Thessalonians
2:10; 1 Thessalonians 5:23. See Expository Note.
αγιοσυνῃ: this unusual spelling in B*DG—a frequent itacism
(ο for ω). So DG in...
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§ 6. 1 Thessalonians 3:6-13. The Good News brought by Timothy
Timothy has just returned from Thessalonica; and his report is
entirely reassuring (1 Thessalonians 3:6), so that it gives new life
to Pau...
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DISCOURSE: 2200
THE EFFECT OF LOVE ON UNIVERSAL HOLINESS
1 Thessalonians 3:12. _The Lord make you to increase and abound in
love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
to t...
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THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH ALL HIS SAINTS.— How often
and how skilfully does St. Paul mention the Lord Jesus Christ, and his
coming to judgment, to support and animate them both to do an...
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TEXT (1 Thessalonians 3:13)
13 TO THE END HE MAY ESTABLISH YOUR HEARTS UNBLAMABLE IN HOLINESS
BEFORE OUR GOD AND FATHER, AT THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS WITH ALL
HIS SAINTS.
Translation and Paraphra...
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To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before
God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all
his saints.
YOUR HEARTS - naturally the spring of unholi...
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THE LORD'S PRESENCE
12 Paul gives us the true motive and incentive of a holy life and a
steadfast faith. It springs from the overflow of love to our fellow
saints and to all others as well. It looks f...
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3:13 holiness (d-11) _ Hagiosune_ . See Note i at Romans 1:4 ....
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THE APOSTLE'S ANXIETY ABOUT HIS CONVERTS
1. Forbear] better, 'endure the suspense.'...
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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 3
WHY THEY SENT TIMOTHY 3:1-5
V1 When we could wait no l...
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TO THE END. — A beautiful connection of thought. Perfect and settled
sanctification in the eyes of God is the object in view, and the means
by which it is to be attained is growing and overflowing lov...
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CHAPTER 8
LOVE AND PRAYERS
1 Thessalonians 3:6 (R.V.)
THESE verses present no peculiar difficulty to the expositor. They
illustrate the remark of Bengel that the First Epistle to the
Thessalonians i...
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CHAPTER 7
ABSENCE AND LONGING
1 Thessalonians 2:17; 1 Thessalonians 3:1 (R.V.)
THE Apostle has said all that he means to say of the opposition of the
Jews to the gospel, and in the verses before us...
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to 1 Thessalonians 3:13. Paul's _apologia pro absentia suâ_....
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The security and purity of the Christian life are rested upon its
brotherly love (so Ep. Arist., 229); all breaches or defects of
ἁγιωσύνη, it is implied, are due to failures there (_cf._ 1
Thessaloni...
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AWAKENING THANKSGIVING AND INTERCESSION
1 Thessalonians 3:1
At the outset observe that marginal reading by which Timothy is
described as _a fellow-worker with God_. What a wonderful phrase, and
yet i...
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The special purpose of the next movement in his letter was the
strengthening of the Thessalonians in their sufferings. Their "work of
faith" had brought them into a place of service which entailed
suf...
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PAUL'S PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH IN THESSALONICA
Paul's prayer, directed to the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,
clearly shows he thought Jesus was God too. Such is emphasized by the
singular verb being...
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(11) В¶ Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ,
direct our way unto you. (12) And the Lord make you to increase and
abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we...
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REFLECTIONS
Who can behold the affection, manifested by the Apostle to the Church,
as set forth in this Chapter, without being struck with the
conviction, that there is, there must be, in every faithf...
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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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13_That he may confirm your hearts_. He employs the term _hearts _here
to mean _conscience_, or the innermost part of the soul; for he means
that a man is acceptable to God only when he brings holines...
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Now this forced removal of the apostle as the chief labourer, without
weakening the bond between him and the disciples, formed other links
which would consolidate and strengthen the assembly, knitting...
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TO THE END HE MAY STABLISH YOUR HEARTS,.... Which are very unstable
and inconstant in their frames, and in the exercise of grace, and have
need to be established in the love of God, against the fears...
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To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before
God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all
his saints.
Ver. 13. _To the end he may stablish_] Love is...
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1 Thes. 3:13. "To the end he may stablish your hearts unblamable in
holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ with all his saints." This and these other parallel tex...
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_What thanks can we render to God_ That is, what sufficient thanks;
_for you_ On account of your perseverance; _for all the joy_
That I have thereby such unfeigned cause of rejoicing; so that the
apos...
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AT THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST; when the result of God's work
of sanctification in the hearts of believers shall be made manifest in
its perfection. Increasing love to Christians on account of...
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TO THE END HE MAY ESTABLISH YOUR HEARTS UNBLAMABLE IN HOLINESS BEFORE
GOD, EVEN OUR FATHER, AT THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH ALL
HIS SAINTS.
Paul here rises to an enthusiasm bordering on ec...
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The apostle prays for their further establishment in faith and love:...
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Paul had been driven by persecution from Thessalonica, then from Berea
to Athens. Alone at Athens for a time (Acts 17:1), he sent word for
Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed (17:15). Evid...
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E. Paul's prayer, 3:11-13
11 NOW GOD HIMSELF AND OUR FATHER, AND OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, DIRECT
OUR WAY UNTO YOU. DIRECT: OR, GUIDE
12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward...
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“TO THE END HE MAY ESTABLISH YOUR HEARTS UNBLAMEABLE IN HOLINESS
BEFORE OUR GOD AND FATHER, AT THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS WITH ALL
HIS SAINTS:
“To the end”: “So that”. This verse infers that the bi...
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11-13 Prayer is religious worship, and all religious worship is due
unto God only. Prayer is to be offered to God as our Father. Prayer is
not only to be offered in the name of Christ, but offered up...
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These words some refer only to the verse immediately preceding: by
increasing and abounding in love, their hearts would be established
UNBLAMABLE IN HOLINESS. Which is true, for that holiness is justl...
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to the end he may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before
our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his
saints. [The "you" of verse 12 is emphatic, and stands in contras...
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Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh
Likewise: "Before God, even our Father, at the coming of the Lord
Jesus Christ, with the whole company of His saints."[165]...
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1 Thessalonians 3:13 that G1519 establish G4741 (G5658) your G5216
hearts G2588 blameless G273 in G1722 holiness...
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‘Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our
way to you. And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love, one
toward another, and towards all men, even as we also do toward...
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1 Thessalonians 3:13. THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. This Paul
looks forward to as the time when those who are holy shall be
acknowledged and manifested as such; and beyond which there is no fea...
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_Paul describes the Feelings he had towards the Thessalonians after he
had left them._
This paragraph is remarkable chiefly as a manifestation of the ardent
affection which Paul felt for his churches....
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TO THE END HE MAY STABLISH
(εις το στηριξα). Another example of εις and the
articular infinitive of purpose. Same idiom in 1 Thessalonians 3:2.
From στηριζω, from στηριγξ, a support.UNBLAMEABLE
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1 Thessalonians 3:11
I. We have to notice very carefully to whom this ejaculatory prayer is
addressed: Now God Himself, even our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ.
It is quite evident that our Lord and...
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CONTENTS: The model Christian brotherhood. The sanctification of the
believer.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Timothy.
CONCLUSION: It is easy for the servant of Christ to bear afflictions
or persecut...
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1 Thessalonians 3:1. _Wherefore, when we could no longer forbear,_
seeing you were so oppressed with persecutions, we sent Timothy, and
preferred being left agone without a fellow-labourer at Athens....
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HE WILL MAKE YOUR HEARTS STRONG. Love makes us "unshakable!" See
Romans 13:8....
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1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 3:13 Jesus will someday
return WITH ALL HIS SAINTS (or “holy ones”—angels, Christians,
or, most likely, both; compare...
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_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_
1 Thessalonians 3:11. DIRECT OUR WAY UNTO YOU.— Acts 16:6 should be
read. Satan might hinder (1 Thessalonians 2:18); if God “makes
straight” the way, progress will
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EXPOSITION
CONTENTS.—The apostle, no longer able to repress his longing and
anxiety for the Thessalonians, resolved to be left alone at Athens,
and sent Timothy for the purpose of exhorting them to en...
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WHEREFORE when we could no longer forbear, we thought it would be good
to be left at Athens alone; And we sent Timothy, our brother, and
minister of God, and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ...
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1 Corinthians 1:7; 1 Corinthians 1:8; 1 Corinthians 15:23; 1 John
3:20;...
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With all his saints [μ ε τ α π α ν τ ω ν τ ω ν α γ ι
ω ν α υ τ ο υ]. Saints is often explained as angels; but the
meaning is the holy and glorified people of God. OiJ agioi is
uniformly used of these...
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With all his, Christ's, saints — Both angels and men....
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Here. particular and special reason is assigned, why he prayed so
fervently for their abounding in love, namely, in order to their
establishment IN FAITH AND HOLINESS; teaching us, that as true love
e...