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Verse 6. _SEEING_ IT IS _A RIGHTEOUS THING_] Though God neither
rewards nor punishes in this life in a general way, yet he often gives
proofs of his displeasure, especially against those who persecute...
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SEEING IT IS A RIGHTEOUS THING WITH GOD TO RECOMPENSE TRIBULATION TO
THEM THAT TROUBLE YOU - The sense is: “There will be a future
judgment, because it is proper that God should punish those who now
p...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS (2 Thessalonians 1:1-10)...
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SEEING. If so be. Greek. _eiper_.
WITH. App-104.
TROUBLE. Greek. _thlibo_, afflict. The noun in 2 Thessalonians 1:7....
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_seeing_it is _a righteous_thing _with God_ Lit., IF VERILY (if, as
all will admit) IT IS RIGHTEOUS WITH GOD.
The Apostle has just spoken (2 Thessalonians 1:5) of "God's righteous
judgement" as manif...
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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...
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ΕἼΠΕΡ ΔΊΚΑΙΌΝ ἘΣΤΙΝ ΠΑΡᾺ ΘΕΩ͂Ι, _if to be
sure it is righteous with God_. Εἴπερ is _siquidem_ (Ambrose,
&c.), not _si tamen_ (Vulg.); cf. Romans 3:30; Romans 8:9; Romans
8:17;...
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§ 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to
them that trouble you;
SEEING (THAT) IT IS A RIGHTEOUS THING - justifying the assertion that
there is a "righteous judgment" (2...
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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...
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1:6 least (a-3) This refers back to ver. 5....
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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...
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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...
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SEEING IT IS. — Literally, _if so be it is fair:_ a form very common
in St. Paul, when he wishes to argue from some fact which he knows his
readers will recognise (_e.g.,_ Romans 8:9). “Your persecuti...
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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...
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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
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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
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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...
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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...
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(3) Seeing [it is] a righteous thing with God to recompense
tribulation to them that trouble you;
(3) A proof: God is just, and therefore he will worthily punish the
unjust, and will do away the mise...
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Seeing [1] it is a just thing. Literally, If yet it be just. St. John
Chrysostom takes notice, that we must not expound the text as if St.
Paul made a doubt whether it was just or not for God to repay...
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(3) We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet,
because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of
everyone of you all toward each other aboundeth; (4) So that we
o...
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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...
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6_To appoint affliction_. We have already stated why it is that he
makes mention of the vengeance of God against the wicked — that we
may learn to rest in the expectation of a judgment to come, becaus...
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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...
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SEEING IT IS A RIGHTEOUS THING WITH GOD,.... That which is righteous
in itself, is righteous in the sight of God, but it is not always so
with men; men may think it a righteous thing that they should...
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Seeing _it is_ a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to
them that trouble you;
Ver. 6. _To recompense tribulation_] To trouble these troublers of
Israel, and that throughout all eterni...
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_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...
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SEEING IT IS A RIGHTEOUS THING WITH GOD TO RECOMPENSE TRIBULATION TO
THEM THAT TROUBLE YOU,...
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PAUL'S PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING AND INTERCESSION.
A prayer of thanksgiving for steadfastness in the midst of
afflictions:...
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(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...
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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...
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“IF SO BE THAT IT IS RIGHTEOUS THING WITH GOD TO RECOMPENSE
AFFLICTION TO THEM THAT AFFLICT YOU”
“If so be”: “It implies no doubt, but rhetorically puts.
recognized fact as. supposition” _(Vincent p....
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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...
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By these words the apostle doth illustrate his argument for a judgment
to come, taken from the persecutions and tribulations of the saints.
It is of necessity that God should be righteous, and recompe...
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if so be that it is a righteous thing with God to recompense
affliction to them that afflict you,...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV
you; and to you who are troubled rest with us, at the revealing of our
Lord Jesus Christ from heaven with His mighty angels, and in a flame
of fire, to take vengeance...
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2 Thessalonians 1:6 since G1512 thing G1342 with G3844 God G2316 repay
G467 (G5629) tribulation G2347 trouble...
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‘So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God, for your
patient endurance and faith in all your persecutions and in the
afflictions which you endure, a manifest token of the righteous
judg...
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2 Thessalonians 1:6. IF INDEED IT IS A RIGHTEOUS THING WITH GOD. The
confirmation of what has been said is put hypothetically to suggest
the impossibility of the contrary supposition, and so present t...
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_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...
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IF SO BE THAT IT IS A RIGHTEOUS THING WITH GOD
(ειπερ δικαιον παρα θεω). Condition of first class,
determined as fulfilled, assumed as true, but with ειπερ (if on
the whole, provided that) as in Rom...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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GOD WILL DO WHAT IS RIGHT. God will _be just_ in paying back those who
persecute his people....
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_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...
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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....
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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
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Deuteronomy 32:41; Isaiah 49:26; Psalms 74:22; Psalms 74:23;...
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Seeing it is [ε ι π ε ρ]. More literally, if so be that.
Confirming, in a hypothetical form, the assertion of God's judgment
upon persecutors, ver. 2 Thessalonians 1
:5It implies no doubt, but rhetori...
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It is a righteous thing with God — (However men may judge) to
transfer the pressure from you to them. And it is remarkable that
about this time, at the passover, the Jews raising a tumult, a great
num...
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Our apostle had shown in the foregoing verse, that their patience
under persecution was. manifest evidence of God's intending them.
portion of that kingdom, for which they suffered persecution; now in...