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Verse 11. _COMFORT - ONE ANOTHER_] Rest assured that, in all times and
circumstances, it shall be well with the righteous; let every man lay
this to heart; and with this consideration _comfort_ and _e...
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WHEREFORE COMFORT YOURSELVES - notes, 1 Thessalonians 4:18.
AND EDIFY ONE ANOTHER - Strive to build up each other, or to establish
each other in the faith by these truths; notes, Romans 14:19....
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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
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PAUL'S WARNING TO THE CHRISTIANS TO BE PREPARED FOR THE PAROUSIA.
1 Thessalonians 5:2. as a thief in the night: _ cf._ the words of
Jesus (Matthew 24:43). Throughout this paragraph the suddenness of...
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You have no need, brothers, that anything should be written to you
about the times and seasons; for you yourselves well know that, as a
thief in the night, so the day of the Lord comes. When they are...
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LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT (1 Thessalonians 5:1-11)...
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COMFORT. App-134. Same as in 1 Thessalonians 4:18.
ALSO YE DO. ye are doing also....
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Section VI. (continued): 1 Thessalonians 5:1
The first part of this Chapter stands in close connection with the
last six verses of ch. 4. Together they form the most distinctive and
the weightiest se...
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Section VI. The Coming of the Lord Jesus
Ch. 1 Thessalonians 4:13 to 1 Thessalonians 5:11
This solemn topic, as we have already seen (note on ch. 1
Thessalonians 1:10, and Intro
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_Wherefore comfort yourselves together_ EXHORT (or ENCOURAGE) ONE
ANOTHER same verb as in ch. 1 Thessalonians 4:18 (see note, and on ch.
1 Thessalonians 3:2).
While "encouragement" would be drawn esp...
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§ 9. 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11. The Coming of the Day
The second misgiving of the Thessalonians respecting the
παρουσία (see _Introd._ to § 8, and general _Introd._ p.
xxxvi.) was closely connected with...
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ΔΙῸ ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΕΙ͂ΤΕ�, a repetition of 1 Thessalonians
4:18, showing that the matter of this section is closely bound up with
that of the last; their misgiving about the lot of Christians dying
prematurel...
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ΔΙΌ (G1352) следовательно,
ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΕΪ́ΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_
ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΈΩ (G3870) ободрять, утешать (_см._ 1
Thessalonians 2:12).
ΆΛΛΉΛΩΝ (G240) друг друга,
ΟΙΚΟΔΟΜΕΊΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΟΊΚ...
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WHEREFORE COMFORT YOURSELVES TOGETHER,— He had used this expression
ch. 1 Thessalonians 4:18. All that he has said since, concerning the
time of Christ's coming, and the necessity of preparing for it,...
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TEXT (1 Thessalonians 5:11)
11 WHEREFORE EXHORT ONE ANOTHER, AND BUILD EACH OTHER UP, EVEN AS ALSO
YE DO.
Translation and Paraphrase
11.
Wherefore comfort (and exhort) one another, and each one of...
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Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as
also ye do.
COMFORT YOURSELVES, [ alleelous (G240)] - "one another." Here he
reverts to consolation, as in 1 Thessalonians 4:1...
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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...
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EDIFY] better, 'build up.' AS ALSO YE DO] St. Paul always praises and
encourages where he can.
12-28. Exhortations to respect for their clergy, orderly living,
prayer and other spiritual duties, and...
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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)....
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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 5
WHEN THE *LORD WILL COME 5:1-11
V1 Now, brothers and s...
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COMFORT. — Rightly translated. St. Paul is here catching up once
more the thought of 1 Thessalonians 4:18. They are to comfort one
another about their communion with the dead who live in Christ; but
p...
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CHAPTER 12
THE DAY OF THE LORD
1 Thessalonians 5:1 (R.V.)
THE last verses of the fourth chapter perfect that which is lacking,
on one side, in the faith of the Thessalonians. The Apostle addresses
h...
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περὶ τῶν χρόνων καὶ τῶν καιρῶν....
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The modification in the primitive attitude of Christians to the
Parousia of Jesus is significant. Instead of all expecting to be alive
at that blessed crisis, the inroads of death had now forced men t...
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READY FOR “THE DAY OF THE LORD”
1 Thessalonians 5:1
To the Apostle “the day of the Lord” was near. He expected it in
his lifetime, and if we remember that the Lord's words with reference
to it were...
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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...
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CHRISTIANS SHOULD COMFORT AND EDIFY EACH OTHER
Paul explained why the Christian should be sure to put on the
breastplate of love and faith and the helmet of the hope of salvation.
He said that God did...
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(6) Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even
as also ye do.
(6) We must not only watch ourselves, but we are also bound to stir
up, and to strengthen and encourage one anoth...
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(4) But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should
overtake you as a thief. (5) Ye are all the children of light, and the
children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. (6...
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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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11_Exhort_. It is the same word that we had in the close of the
preceding chapter, and which we rendered _comfort_, because the
context required it, and the same would not suit ill with this passage
a...
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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...
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WHEREFORE COMFORT YOURSELVES TOGETHER,.... Either with the doctrine of
the resurrection of the dead, the second coming of Christ, and the
thoughts of being for ever with him, and one another, and so m...
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Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as
also ye do.
Ver. 11. _Comfort yourselves together_] This he subjoins as a singular
help to the practice of the former points of d...
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_For they that sleep, sleep in the night_, &c. Night is the time for
sleep, and they that are guilty of drunkenness, gluttony, and other
vices of intemperance, generally choose to hide them under the...
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WHEREFORE COMFORT YOURSELVES TOGETHER, AND EDIFY ONE ANOTHER, EVEN AS
ALSO YE DO.
The Day of Judgment will come suddenly to Christians and unbelievers
alike; but the contrast which the apostle brings...
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The alertness and vigilance of the Christians:...
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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...
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D. The certainty of Christ's coming, 5:1-11
1 BUT OF THE TIMES AND THE SEASONS, BRETHREN, YE HAVE NO NEED THAT I
WRITE UNTO YOU.
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh a...
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COMFORT:
Or, exhort...
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“WHEREFORE EXHORT ONE ANOTHER, AND BUILD EACH OTHER UP, EVEN AS ALSO
YE DO.”
“Wherefore”: Because of all the encouraging truths just mentioned!
“EXHORT”: Comfort, exhort, entreat, encourage, implore....
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6-11 Most of mankind do not consider the things of another world at
all, because they are asleep; or they do not consider them aright,
because they sleep and dream. Our moderation as to all earthly t...
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These words are an exhortation to the whole church of Thessalonica, to
comfort and edify one another. Though the ministry is appointed to
this by especial office, yet private Christians are to practis...
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Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye
do. [As Paul closed his main teaching about his Lord's coming with an
injunction that the Thessalonians comfort each other with i...
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1 Thessalonians 5:11 Therefore G1352 comfort G3870 (G5720) other G240
and G2532 edify G3618 (G5720) one G
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‘Wherefore exhort (or strengthen by coming alongside) one another,
and build each other up, even as also you do.'
The fact of the coming of Christ and the resurrection and
transformation of the people...
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_Exhortation to Sobriety and Watchfulness, founded in the Suddenness
of the Lord's Coming, and on their Character as Children of Light._
Having spoken so definitely of the Lord's coming, Paul anticipa...
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1 Thessalonians 5:11. WHEREFORE. There being such good grounds for
hopefulness about the departed, comfort one another.
EDIFY. ‘From the frequent application of the term _house_ or
_temple_ to Christ...
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BUILD EACH OTHER UP
(οικοδομειτε εις τον ενα). Literally, build ye,
one the one (εις nominative in partitive apposition with
unexpressed υμεις subject of οικοδομειτε. Then τον
ενα the accusative in...
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1 Thessalonians 5:9
I. This passage, 1 Thessalonians 5:9, has its interest and value as
showing us that the earliest and the latest of the Pauline Epistles
are all at one in regard to the central doct...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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FOR THIS REASON. That is, because of God's promises to us. ENCOURAGE.
Through faith, goodness, knowledge, self-control, etc. (2 Peter
1:5-11). HELP. With the loads of life (Galatians 6:1-5)....
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_Wherefore comfort and edify one another _
COMFORT AND EDIFICATION
I. Comfort implies--
1. The presence of discomfort, and the duty of mutual support under
trial. Men are troubled--
(1) By sin. We...
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_But of the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write
unto you--Perhaps because the apostle had told them, or because the
sudden coming of Christ was a universal belief._
So in modern...
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_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_
1 Thessalonians 5:1. TIMES AND SEASONS.—The one is the even,
continuous flow of the river, the other is the cataract. Seasons we
may represent as epochs. Our Lord in...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 10:23; 1 Corinthians 14:12; 1 Corinthians 14:29; 1
Corinthians 14:5;...
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THE LORD'S COMING
1 Thessalonians 5:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The question up for discussion is one of utmost importance. If it is
true that the Lord's Coming is near, and that at any moment we may
hear...