Justin Edwards' Family Bible NT (1851)
1 Thessalonians 5:23
The coming of our Lord; his second coming in glory. See note to chap 1 Thessalonians 3:13.
The coming of our Lord; his second coming in glory. See note to chap 1 Thessalonians 3:13.
Verse 23. _AND THE VERY GOD OF PEACE_] That same God who is the author of peace, the giver of peace; and who has sent, for the redemption of the world, the _Prince of peace_; may that very God _sanct...
AND THE VERY GOD OF PEACE - The God who gives peace or happiness; compare notes, Romans 1:7. SANCTIFY YOU - See the notes at John 17:17. WHOLLY - ὁλοτελεῖς
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
CONCLUSION. 1 Thessalonians 5:23. The closing benediction commending the Thessalonian Christians to God. SPIRIT AND SOUL AND BODY: if we press the phrase, human nature is threefold, consisting of: (_a...
May the God of peace himself consecrate you through and through; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept complete so that you will be blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. You can re...
LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT (1 Thessalonians 5:1-11)...
THE VERY, &C. = may the God of peace Himself. Compare Acts 7:2.Hebrews 13:20. SANCTIFY. See John 17:17. WHOLLY. Greek. _holoteles._ Only here. WHOLE, &C Read, "your spirit and soul and body be
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...
_And the very God of peace_ THE GOD OF PEACE HIMSELF (R. V.) so "God Himself" in ch. 1 Thessalonians 3:11, and "our Lord Jesus Christ Himself" in 2 Thessalonians 2:16, where the like contrast is impli...
ΑΥ̓ΤῸΣ ΔῈ Ὁ ΘΕῸΣ ΤΗ͂Σ ΕἸΡΉΝΗΣ—. _But may the God of peace Himself_ …: cf. 1 Thessalonians 3:11 (see note), and 2 Thessalonians 2:16, where a like contrast seems to be implied, under Αὐτὸς δέ, between...
§ 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...
ΆΓΙΆΣΑΙ _aor._ opt. _act. от_ ΑΓΙΆΖΩ (G37) освящать. Об использовании opt. в молитвах, выражающих желание, _см._ PIP, 32f. ΌΛΟΤΕΛΉΣ (G3651) полностью, целиком, в полной мере совершенный. Это слово под...
DISCOURSE: 2209 COMPLETE SANCTIFICATION TO BE SOUGHT AFTER 1 Thessalonians 5:23. _The very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless...
PROVE ALL THINGS, &C.— Though they were not to _despise prophesyings,_ yet they were not to receive every thing which might be so called; but to _prove_ and _examine_ all things that went under that n...
AND THE VERY GOD OF PEACE, &C.— "And may that God himself, who is reconciled to you by the blood of Christ, and is the author, giver, and approver of peace one with another, and in your own conscience...
TEXT (1 Thessalonians 5:23) 23 AND THE GOD OF PEACE HIMSELF SANCTIFY YOU WHOLLY; AND MAY YOUR SPIRIT AND SOUL AND BODY BE PRESERVED ENTIRE, WITHOUT BLAME AT THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. Tran...
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. AND - `But' [ de (G1161)]. THE V...
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)....
MAY YOUR SPIRIT (by which man maintains communion with God) AND SOUL (the feelings and emotions) AND BODY (which is to rise again) BE PRESERVED ENTIRE AND WITHOUT BLAME, and be so found at the Advent....
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...
AND. — The logic of such an expression as, “Do this, and may you be happy,” lies in the writer’s own connection with both the command and the prayer: “I bid you abstain from every evil kind of thing,...
CHAPTER 16 CONCLUSION 1 Thessalonians 5:23 (R.V.) THESE verses open with a contrast to what precedes, which is more strongly brought out in the original than in the translation. The Apostle has draw...
εἰρήνης, with a special allusion to the breaches of harmony and charity produced by vice (_cf._ connection of 1 Thessalonians 3:12-13 and 1 Thessalonians 4:3 f.), indolence, impatience of authority or...
“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...
PAUL'S PRAYER FOR THE THESSALONIANS AND A REQUEST Paul's prayer for the Thessalonians as he closed this letter was that God would continue setting them apart, or sanctifying, until they were complete....
And the very God of peace (i) sanctify you wholly; and [I pray God] your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. (i) Separate you from the worl...
_Spirit, and soul. The former marks the understanding, the latter the will: hence these two terms give the two principal faculties of the soul. (Bible de Vence)_...
(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...
_WHOLLY SANCTIFIED_ ‘The very God of peace sanctify you wholly.’ 1 Thessalonians 5:23 Has God, the God of peace, taken possession of our whole spirit? Have we given Him our spirit? Nay, have we eve...
_THREE IN ONE_ ‘I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.’ 1 Thessalonians 5:23 I want you to think of body, soul, and spirit,...
23_Now the God of peace himself_. Having given various injunctions, he now proceeds to prayer. And unquestionably doctrine is disseminated in vain, (620) unless God implant it in our minds. From this...
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...
AND THE VERY GOD OF PEACE,.... Or "the God of peace himself". The apostle follows his exhortations with prayer to God, knowing the weakness and impotency of the saints to receive them, and act accordi...
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and _I pray God_ your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Ver. 23. _That your whole spirit,...
_And the very God of peace_ Αυτος δε ο Θεος της ειρηνης, literally, _May the God of peace himself;_ that is, he who is ready to give you peace with himself after all you have done; who is in Christ re...
Concluding greetings:...
AND THE VERY GOD OF PEACE SANCTIFY YOU WHOLLY; AND I PRAY GOD YOUR WHOLE SPIRIT AND SOUL AND BODY BE PRESERVED BLAMELESS UNTO THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST....
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...
VI. Conclusion, 5:23-28 23 AND THE VERY GOD OF PEACE SANCTIFY YOU WHOLLY; AND [I PRAY GOD] YOUR WHOLE SPIRIT AND SOUL AND BODY BE PRESERVED BLAMELESS UNTO THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. 24 Fa...
“AND THE GOD OF PEACE HIMSELF SANCTIFY YOU WHOLLY; AND MAY YOUR SPIRIT AND SOUL AND BODY BE PRESERVED ENTIRE, WITHOUT BLAME AT THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST” “And”: Notice the connection between...
23-28 The apostle prays that they might be sanctified more perfectly, for the best are sanctified but in part while in this world; therefore we should pray for, and press toward, complete holiness. A...
OLBGrk; The apostle here concludes all with prayer, as knowing all his exhortations and admonitions before given would not be effectual without God; and he prays for their sanctification and preservat...
And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. [May God, who makes peace between him...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book II For he will not possess in that case the likeness and appearance of angels, but of those souls in whom also he receives shape; just as water when poured into a vesse...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 Now G1161 God G2316 peace G1515 Himself G846 sanctify G37 (G5659) you G5209 completely...
‘And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly, and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he who calls you who als...
1 Thessalonians 5:23. THE GOD OF PEACE. A term occurring towards the close of many of the Epistles see references. Perhaps the title varies slightly in meaning according to the context in which it is...
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....
THE GOD OF PEACE (ο θεος της ειρηνης). The God characterized by peace in his nature, who gladly bestows it also. Common phrase (Milligan) at close of Paul's Epistles (2 Corinthians 13:11; Romans 15:...
WHOLE SPIRIT AND SOUL AND BODY Man as a trinity. That the human soul and spirit are not identical is proved by the facts that they are divisible, (Hebrews 4:12), and that soul and spirit are sharply...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 I. There is much of instruction and comfort in this Apostolic prayer. The blessing prayed for is that the Thessalonian converts may be sanctified wholly, that their spirit and sou...
1 Thessalonians 5:23 St. Paul implies in the text that all three branches of our complicated nature are to undergo sanctification that this leavening process is to go through the entire mass, until th...
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...
MAKE YOU HOLY IN EVERY WAY. This is Paul's word of blessing on the Thessalonian Christians. But God will make each one of his people holy in every way [that is, those who follow 1 John 1:7]. AND KEEP...
_The very God of peace sanctify you wholly _ A SHORT BUT COMPREHENSIVE PRAYER The apostle had told the Thessalonians in the beginning of his Epistle, that he always made mention of them in his praye...
1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 5:23 GOD OF PEACE. God initiated the reconciliation of Christians with himself. He is now at peace with them. SPIRIT, SOUL,
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Thessalonians 5:23. SANCTIFY YOU WHOLLY.—“Rather—unto completeness. The apostle prays that they may be sanctified to the fullest extent” (_Ibid._). YOUR WHOLE SPIRIT...
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 1:2; 1 Corinthians 1:8; 1 Corinthians 1:9; 1 Corinthians 14:33;...
The very God of peace [α υ τ ο ς ο θ ε ο ς τ η ς ε ι ρ η ν η ς]. Better, the God of peace himself. God's work is contrasted with human efforts to carry out the preceding injunctions. The phrase God of...
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...
And may the God of peace sanctify you — By the peace he works in you, which is a great means of sanctification. Wholly — The word signifies wholly and perfectly; every part and all that concerns you;...
Observe here, 1, that our apostle having exhorted the Thessalonians to labour after the highest measures of sanctification, breathes out his soul here in. most affectionate prayer to God, to sanctify...