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, is to be looked upon as a parenthesis, or digression, though an exceedingly proper and useful one: and here, by his using this expression again, he shews that he is returning to where he left off, and closing this part of his Epistle.
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...
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....
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
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...
LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT (1 Thessalonians 5:1-11)...
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...
COMFORT. App-134. Same as in 1 Thessalonians 4:18. ALSO YE DO. ye are doing also....
_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...
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
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...
§ 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)....
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...
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...
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...
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...
περὶ τῶν χρόνων καὶ τῶν καιρῶν....
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...
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...
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...
(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...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
The alertness and vigilance of the Christians:...
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...
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...
COMFORT: Or, exhort...
“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....
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...
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...
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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‘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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)....
_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...
_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...
_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...
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 10:23; 1 Corinthians 14:12; 1 Corinthians 14:29; 1 Corinthians 14:5;...
Comfort [π α ρ α κ α λ ε ι τ ε]. Rev. renders exhort; but comfort suits better the general drift of the passage, and corresponds with ch. 4 18. There is some force in Bornemann's suggestion that the t...
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...