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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Thessalonians 1:8

Taking vengeance] better, 'awarding retribution.' Them that know not God, and that obey not] better, (1) 'them that know not, and (2) them that obey not. 'Possibly (1) Gentiles and (2) Jews.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 8. _IN FLAMING FIRE_] εν φλογι πυρος. In _thunder and_ _lightning, taking vengeance_-inflicting just punishment _on them_ _that know not God_-the heathen who do not worship the true God, and wi...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    IN FLAMING FIRE - This is a circumstance which is not noticed in the account of his appearing in the parallel place in 1 Thessalonians 4:16. The object of the apostle here seems to be to represent him...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS (2 Thessalonians 1:1-10)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    FLAMING FIRE. fire of flame (Greek. _phlo_ x. Here; Luke 16:24.Acts 7:30; Hebrews 1:7; Revelation 1:14;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _in flaming fire_ Lit., FIRE OF FLAME; or, in other copies, FLAME OF FIRE. "Fire" is a symbol of Divine anger and majesty, in Scripture; and "flame" is fire in motion, leaping and blazing out. Accordi...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    § 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...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

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  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 2211 CHRIST’S COMING TO JUDGE THE WORLD 2 Thessalonians 1:7. The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God,...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT (2 Thessalonians 1:8) 8 RENDERING VENGEANCE TO THEM THAT KNOW NOT GOD, AND TO THEM THAT OBEY NOT THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS: Translation and Paraphrase 8. (For He shall be revealed) in fla...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: IN FLAMING FIRE - Greek 'In (encompassed with) flame of fire ' B Delta G g Vulgate...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    IN FLAMING FIRE. — Most critics agree to change the punctuation here, by omitting the comma after “angels” and inserting it after “fire.” The flaming fire here is not the instrument of the vengeance —...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    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

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _Those who know not God_ are of course not pagans as such but immoral pagans, in the sense of Romans 1:28 f. _Those who refuse obedience to the gospel_ are, as the repetition of the article suggests,...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    PUNISHMENT The apostle said Jesus would come in flaming fire and take "vengeance," which is from the same root as "righteous" in verses 5 and 6. The punishment for wrongs committed against God and man...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    In flaming fire taking vengeance on them (6) that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: (6) There is no knowledge of God to salvation, without the Gospel of Christ....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (7) And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, (8) In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey no...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    8_Who will inflict vengeance_. That he may the better persuade believers that the persecutions which they endure will not go unpunished, he teaches that this also involves the interests of God himself...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    IN FLAMING FIRE,.... Which may either refer to Christ, who will be revealed from heaven in such a manner; and whose coming will be as the lightning, not only sudden, but glorious, illustrious, and vis...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Ver. 8. _In flaming fire_] Natural fire, 2 Peter 3:6,7, whereby the elements shall m...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    The prosperity, injustice, and cruelty of the wicked, and the adversity, meekness, patience, and submission of the righteous, show that men are not in this world treated according to their character;...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    IN FLAMING FIRE TAKING VENGEANCE ON THEM THAT KNOW NOT GOD, AND THAT OBEY NOT THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST;...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    PAUL'S PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING AND INTERCESSION. A prayer of thanksgiving for steadfastness in the midst of afflictions:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    (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...

  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

    Vengeance belongs to God, not man. Daniel 7:13-14 teaches that Jesus will be given a kingdom, dominion and authority to execute judgment. "Vengenace" does not indicate a vindictive spirit of retaliati...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    TAKING: Or, yielding...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    “RENDERING VENGEANCE TO THEM THAT KNOW NOT GOD, AND TO THEM THAT OBEY NOT THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS” “Rendering vengeance”: “Lit., ‘out of justice or righteousness', indicating this is not out of...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    But his coming will be upon another account to many others, which is said here to be to take vengeance, for which purpose he is said to be revealed _with his mighty angels, _ or angels of might; and e...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus [The patience and faith of the Thessalonians were a manifest token (i. e., pledge, proof or demons...

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    Tertullian Against Marcion Book V For as the apostle declares that the Lord will come "to take vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the gospel, who," he says, "shall be punished with...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Thessalonians 1:8 in G1722 flaming G5395 fire G4442 taking G1325 (G5723) vengeance G1557 do G1492 not G33

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And to you who are afflicted rest with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from Heaven, with the angels of his power, in flaming fire, rendering vengeance to those who do not know God, and to thos...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    _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...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    2 Thessalonians 1:8. IN FLAMING FIRE. This accompaniment of the revelation of Jesus Christ is the same which under the Old Testament symbolized the majesty and holiness of God. See the references. The...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    RENDERING (διδοντος). Genitive of present active participle of διδωμ, to give, agreeing with Ιησου.VENGEANCE (εκδικησιν). Late word from εκδικεω, to vindicate, in Polybius and LXX.TO THEM THAT KN...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    2 Thessalonians 1:7 The rest awaiting Christ's troubled saints is in the fullest sense to be their possession at the revelation of the Lord Jesus. He who is emphatically the coming One is to be revea...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    WITH A FLAMING FIRE. Christ's Second Coming will mean brightness and glory to those who belong to Christ, but death and destruction to the ungodly (see _note on_ Jude 1:14-15). This does not mean _ann...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _When the Lord Jesus Christ shall be revealed from heaven--This passage both consolatory and doctrinal--consolation designed for a persecuted Church--instruction for the world._ Our subject: the gene...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and obey not the gospel _ CHRIST’S COMING I. The terrible manner of Christ’s coming. “In flaming fire,” which serves-- 1. To set forth the...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 2 THESSALONIANS 1:8 IN FLAMING FIRE. See Isaiah 66:15....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 2 Thessalonians 1:8. IN FLAMING FIRE.—Lit. “in a fire of flame.” “Fire is a symbol of divine anger and majesty in Scripture; and flame is fire in motion, leaping and b...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 15:34; 1 Peter 1:2; 1 Peter 3:6; 1 Peter 4:17; 1 Sam

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    In flaming fire [ε ν π υ ρ ι φ λ ο γ ο ς]. Lit. in a fire of flame. Comp. 1 Corinthians 1:13; 2 Peter 3:7. Taking vengeance [δ ι δ ο ν τ ο ς ε κ δ ι κ η σ ι ν]. Lit. giving or rendering. Vengeance is...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Taking vengeance — Does God barely permit this, or (as "the Lord" once "rained brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven," Genesis 19:24) does a fiery stream go forth from him for ever? Who know...

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