Verse 20. _DESPISE NOT PROPHESYINGS._] Do not suppose that ye have no need of continual instruction; without it ye cannot preserve the Christian life, nor go on to perfection. God will ever send a me...
DESPISE NOT PROPHESYINGS - On the subject of prophesyings in the early Christian church, see the notes on 1 Corinthians 14:1 ff1 ff. The reference here seems to be to preaching. They were not to under...
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
SUNDRY COUNSELS AND EXHORTATIONS. 1 Thessalonians 5:12. Christians are urged to respect their leaders. No officers and ministers are mentioned in this epistle, but this verse implies that the Church h...
LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT (1 Thessalonians 5:1-11)...
We ask you, brothers, to give due recognition to those who labour among you and to those who preside over you in the Lord and admonish you, and to hold them very highly in love because of the work tha...
DESPISE. Greek. _exoutheneo._ See Acts 4:11. PROPHESYINGS. Compare 1 Corinthians 12:10 1 Corinthians 13:2,...
Section VII. Rules for the Sanctified Life. Ch. 1 Thessalonians 5:12-24 In Section v. (ch. 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12) the _saintship_of his readers supplied the basis and the nerve of the Apostle's char...
_Quench not the Spirit. Despise not prophesyings_ The R. V. properly reduces to a semi-colon the full stop between these sentences. What is _revelation_on God's part, is _prophecy_in its human instru...
§ 11. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24. Directions for Holy Living In § 7 (1 Thessalonians 4:1-12) _the saintship_ of the Thessalonians supplied the basis and the nerve of the Apostles’ charge. The virtues of...
19, 20. ΤῸ ΠΝΕΥ͂ΜΑ ΜῊ ΣΒΈΝΝΥΤΕ, ΠΡΟΦΗΤΕΊΑΣ ΜῊ ἘΞΟΥΘΕΝΕΙ͂ΤΕ. _The Spirit do not quench; prophesyings do not despise_. From _joy, prayer_, and _thanksgiving_ it is a natural transition to _the Spirit_ a...
DESPISE NOT PROPHESYINGS.— By _prophesying,_ here, we are not to understand barely a _foretelling of future events,_ but a _preaching by immediate inspiration;_ that is, speaking what tended to instru...
TEXT (1 Thessalonians 5:20) 20 DESPISE NOT PROPHESYINGS; Translation and Paraphrase 20. Do not treat with contempt (the) prophesyings (which your) teachings may give through divine inspiration)....
Despise not prophesyings. PROPHESYINGS - whether exercised in inspired teaching (as distinguished from [ didachee (G1322)] 'teaching' under the ordinary influences of grace), or in predicting. 'Des...
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...
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)....
The Christian prophets were an order of men specially inspired to reveal the will of God to others ('mission-preachers'), who might sometimes (Acts 11:27; Acts 21:10) be charged to foretell the future...
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...
DESPISE NOT PROPHESYINGS. — The highest outward or _charismatic_ manifestation of this inward fire was the gift of “prophecy” (1 Corinthians 12:28; 1 Corinthians 14:1; 1 Corinthians 14:5;...
CHAPTER 15 THE SPIRIT 1 Thessalonians 5:20 (R.V.) THESE verses are abruptly introduced, but are not unconnected with what precedes. The Apostle has spoken of order and discipline, and of the joyful...
As εὐχαριστεῖν was a special function of the prophets in early Christian worship (_cf._ Did. x. 7), the transition is natural. The local abuses of ecstatic prophecy in prediction (2 Thessalonians 2:2)...
General instructions for the church....
“WITHOUT BLAME” AT HIS COMING 1 Thessalonians 5:12 The remainder of the chapter is filled with brief sentences of exhortation, like cablegrams from our Heavenly Captain to his soldiers, who, in the p...
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...
GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR THE SPIRITUAL MAN In 1 Thessalonians 1:6, Paul had noted their joy. As he closed out this letter, the apostle wanted to urge the brethren to make joy an ever present part of the...
Despise not (g) prophesyings. (g) The explaining and interpreting of the word of God....
(12) And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; (13) And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at pea...
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...
20_Despise not prophesyings_. This sentence is appropriately added to the preceding one, for as the Spirit of God illuminates us chiefly by doctrine, those who give not teaching its proper place, do,...
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...
DESPISE NOT PROPHESYINGS. Or "prophecies"; the prophecies of the Old Testament concerning the first coming of Christ, concerning his person, office, and work, his obedience, sufferings, and death, his...
Despise not prophesyings. Ver. 20. _Despise not_] _i.e._ Highly honour, and preciously esteem, as an honorary given by Christ to his Church at his wonderful ascension, Psalms 51:17; Ephesians 4:8; Ep...
_Despise not prophesyings_ That is, the preaching of God's word; for the apostle is not here speaking of extraordinary gifts, but of such as are ordinary. It seems one means of grace is put for all; a...
PROPHESYINGS; see note to 1 Corinthians 12:28....
The Christian's personal bearing and conduct:...
DESPISE NOT PROPHESYINGS....
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...
B. Appeal for steadfastness, 5:16-22 16 REJOICE EVERMORE. 17 Pray without ceasing. 18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 19 Quench not the Spi...
“DESPISE NOT PROPHESYINGS” “Despise”: To set at nought or view as being contemptible. “Do not make light of prophetic gifts” (TCNT). “do not hold prophecy in low esteem” (Knox). “Do not scoff at tho...
16-22 We are to rejoice in creature-comforts, as if we rejoiced not, and must not expect to live many years, and rejoice in them all; but if we do rejoice in God, we may do that evermore. A truly rel...
Thereby we may quench the Spirit, which usually works upon men's minds and hearts by it. By prophecy is sometimes meant foretelling of things to come, and speaking by extraordinary revelation, 1 CORIN...
despise not prophesyings [Prophesyings were instructions given through inspired men, and included moral and spiritual precepts as well as predictions as to the future. Such instructors stood next in r...
Shepherd of Hermas Vision Fourth on the doubters. Woe to those who hear these words, and despise them:[18] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V has already quenched and despised the thing which he des...
1 Thessalonians 5:20 not G3361 despise G1848 (G5720) prophecies G4394 1 Thessalonians 4:8;...
‘Do not quench the Spirit, do not despise prophesyings, prove all things, hold fast that which is good, abstain from every appearance (or ‘form') of evil.' The word for quench is often used of the que...
AS Paul's custom was, he concludes this Epistle with a number of practical injunctions suitable to the circumstances of those to whom he writes, and more or less connected with one another....
DESPISE NOT PROPHESYINGS (προφητειας μη εξουθενειτε). Same construction, stop counting as nothing (εξουθενεω, ουθεν=ουδεν), late form in LXX. Plutarch has εξουδενιζω. Plural form προφητειας (accusa...
1 Thessalonians 5:19 I. The Holy Spirit is here spoken of not strictly in respect of His Person, but in respect of His energising power in and on the heart. His workings, the Apostle would say, may be...
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...
DO NOT DESPISE INSPIRED MESSAGES. During the time when Paul wrote this, prophets were men inspired by God to speak his message. Yet each prophet was to be carefully tested (1 John 4:1-3; 1 Corinthians...
_Despise not prophesyings _ I. What prophesyings? 1. The Scriptures written (2 Peter 1:20; 2 Timothy 3:16). (1) The truths asserted (Acts 26:27). (2) Commands enjoined ...
1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 5:20 DO NOT DESPISE PROPHECIES. Believers are to be open to learning God’s will through fellow Christians exercising the gift of prophecy (see note on 1 Cor
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Thessalonians 5:19. QUENCH NOT THE SPIRIT.—When there has been excess, and a good has come into disrepute, it is natural to seek to stifle down further manifestatio...
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 11:4; 1 Corinthians 12:10; 1 Corinthians 12:28; 1 Corinthians 13:2;...
Prophesyings [π ρ ο φ η τ ε ι α ς]. The emphasis on prophesyings corresponds with that in 1 Corinthians 14:1-5; 1 Corinthians 14:22 ff. Prophecy in the apostolic church was directly inspired instructi...
SANCTIFICATION 1 Thessalonians 4:3; _1 Thessalonians 5:15_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS The doctrine of sanctification has been abused, but that does not mean that we should steer clear of God's message conce...
Despise not prophesyings — That is, preaching; for the apostle is not here speaking of extraordinary gifts. It seems, one means of grace is put for all; and whoever despises any of these, under whatev...
Note here, 1. How close this duty is coupled with the former. QUENCH NOT THE SPIRIT; DESPISE NOT PROPHESYINGS; plainly intimating to us, that the Spirit is then dangerously quenched, when prophesying,...