Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)
2 Thessalonians 3:7
2 Thessalonians 3:7. On this and the following verse, see notes on the First Epistle, chap. 2.
2 Thessalonians 3:7. On this and the following verse, see notes on the First Epistle, chap. 2.
Verse 7. _WE BEHAVED NOT OURSELVES DISORDERLY_] ουκ ητακτησαμεν. _We did not go out of our rank_-we kept our place, and discharged all its duties....
FOR YOURSELVES KNOW HOW YE OUGHT TO FOLLOW US - You know what you should do in order to imitate us. FOR WE BEHAVED NOT OURSELVES DISORDERLY AMONG YOU - See the notes on 1 Thessalonians 2:10....
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....
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...
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...
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...
A FINAL WORD (2 Thessalonians 3:1-5)...
KNOW. App-132. FOLLOW. imitate. Greek. _mimeomai._ Occurs also 2 Thessalonians 3:9; Hebrews 13:7; 3 John 1:11; 3 John 1:11
_For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us_ Lit., IMITATE US: see note on 1 Thessalonians 1:6; and again, ch. 2 Thessalonians 2:14, and 2 Thessalonians 3:9 below. you know of yourse
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...
§ 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...
ΑΥ̓ΤΟῚ ΓᾺΡ ΟἼΔΑΤΕ. _For you know of yourselves_—“without our needing to tell it again”: see notes on καθὼς οἴδατε, 1 Thessalonians 1:5 f., 2 Thessalonians 2:1, &c. ΠΩ͂Σ ΔΕΙ͂ ΜΙΜΕΙ͂ΣΘΑΙ ἩΜΑ͂Σ, _in what...
ΟΪΔΑΤΕ _praes. ind. act._ от: ΟΙΔΑ (G1492) знать. Недостаточный perf. со _знач. praes._ ΔΕΊ _praes. ind. act._ (G1163) необходимо. Везличный гл. с _inf._ Слово обозначает логическую необходимость, во...
FOR WE BEHAVED NOT OURSELVES DISORDERLY, &C.— Ουκ ητακτησαμεν, _we did not go out of our rank;_ an allusion to soldiers standing or marching in their proper _ranks,_ out of which it is a great irregul...
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...
For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you; HOW YE OUGHT TO FOLLOW US - how ye ought to live so as to 'imitate' (so the Greek) us (cf. note, ;...
EXHORTATIONS, REBUKES, AND BENEDICTION 2. Unreasonable] almost 'outrageous.' FAITH] better, 'the Faith.'...
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...
FOR justifies the assertion that they _had_ received a better teaching. (Comp. 1 Thessalonians 2:1; 1 Thessalonians 4:9; 1 Thessalonians 5:2.) TO FOLLOW US. — The word, of course
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...
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...
(6) For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you; (6) Lest he might seem to deal harshly with them, he sets forth himself as an example, who beside...
(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...
FOR YOURSELVES KNOW HOW YE OUGHT TO FOLLOW US,.... The apostle goes on to dissuade from that which denominates persons disorderly walkers, and exposes them to the censure of the church, and that partl...
For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you; Ver. 7. _For yourselves know_] You idle addleheads, _a_ 2 Thessalonians 3:11. For these he here direc...
_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...
FOR YOURSELVES KNOW HOW YE OUGHT TO FOLLOW US; FOR WE BEHAVED NOT OURSELVES DISORDERLY AMONG 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...
“FOR YOURSELVES KNOW HOW YE OUGHT TO IMITATE US: FOR WE BEHAVED NOT OURSELVES DISORDERLY AMONG YOU” “For”: Not only were the disorderly ignoring clear commands, they were also ignoring the example th...
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...
Whereby the apostle intimates the aggravation of their crime who did walk disorderly, and so justifies the withdrawing from them. For they would be reproved not only by his doctrine, but example: what...
For yourselves know how ye ought to imitate us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;...
2 Thessalonians 3:7 For G1063 yourselves G846 know G1492 (G5758) how G4459 ought G1163 (G5748) follow G3401
HOW YE OUGHT TO IMITATE US (πως δε μιμεισθα ημας). Literally, how it is necessary to imitate us. The infinitive μιμεισθα is the old verb μιμεομα from μιμος (actor, mimic), but in N.T. only here (and...
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...
JUST WHAT WE DID. Paul and the other apostles can point to their own self-supporting and orderly lives as examples. See note on 1 Thessalonians 2:9....
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 3:6 The Problem of Lazy Christians. Paul instructs the Thessalonians to discipline those refusing to work....
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 2 Thessalonians 3:6. WALKETH DISORDERLY.—Falling out of the ranks and desertion of the post of duty are grave faults, which if the _esprit de corps_ do not prevent it...
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 11:1; 1 Corinthians 4:16; 1 Peter 5:3; 1 Thessalonians 1:6;...
Follow [μ ι μ ε ι σ θ α ι]. Better, imitate. Comp. 1 Corinthians 4:16; 1 Corinthians 11:1; Philippians 3:17; 1 Thess
In these verses the apostle plainly intimates, whom he meant by the DISORDERLY BROTHER mentioned in the foregoing verse; it is the idle person, called disorderly for this reason; because Almighty God...