You are the children of light. That is, there is little danger of thieves in the day time, when it is light. Also watch and have arms to defend you, the coat of mail of faith; the helmet of hope: you are under the protection of Christ, who died for you, and for your salvation. See St. John Chrysostom, p. 293, &c. (Witham)
Verse 1 Thessalonians 5:5. _YE ARE ALL THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT_] Ye are children of God, and enjoy both his _light_ and _life_. Ye are _Christians_-ye belong to him who has brought _life_ and _immortal...
YE ARE ALL THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT - All who are Christians. The phrase” children of light” is a Hebraism, meaning that they were the enlightened children of God. AND THE CHILDREN OF THE DAY - Who live...
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...
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...
LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT (1 Thessalonians 5:1-11)...
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_Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day_ More correctly, FOR YOU ARE ALL SONS OF LIGHT AND SONS OF DAY. This confirms positively what was stated by way of denial in 1 Thessaloni...
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...
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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...
ΥΙΟΊ ΦΩΤΌΣ (G5207; G5457 "сыны света". Слово "сын" с последующим _gen._ представляет из себя семитский оборот со _знач._ "имеющий отличительные особенности" (Morris; BG, 15ff; BS, 161-66). Об использо...
DISCOURSE: 2203 WATCHFULNESS ENJOINED 1 Thessalonians 5:1. 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 come...
YE ARE ALL THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT,— Having compared our Lord's sudden and unexpected appearance to the coming of a thief in the night, he takes up the comparison again, 1 Thessalonians 5:4 and pursues...
TEXT (1 Thessalonians 5:5) 5 FOR YE ARE ALL SONS OF LIGHT, AND SONS OF THE DAY: WE ARE NOT OF THE NIGHT, NOR OF DARKNESS; Translation and Paraphrase 5. (But you cannot be in such darkness,) for yo...
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 'Aleph (') A B Delta G f g, Vulgate, read 'FOR ye are all,' etc. Ye have no reason for fear,...
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)....
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...
YE ARE ALL. — St. Paul recognises no exceptions, no inner distinctions, among the members of the Church: all stand alike so far as grace, privileges, and duties are concerned. The following exhortatio...
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...
περὶ τῶν χρόνων καὶ τῶν καιρῶν....
The present age is utter night (שֶׁכֻּלּוֹ לַיְלָה), as contemporary rabbis taught; the age to come is all day. Meantime faith is to be held fast through this night (_cf._ passages quoted in Schlatter...
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...
TRUE BELIEVERS ARE PREPARED God's people do not live in the darkness of wickedness but in the light of righteousness (Colossians 1:13; 1 Peter 2:9). Christians belong to the realm of light because the...
(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...
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...
YE ARE ALL CHILDREN OF LIGHT,.... Or enlightened persons, whose understandings were enlightened by the spirit of God, to see their lost state by nature, the exceeding sinfulness of sin, the insufficie...
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Ver. 5. _We are not of the night, &c._] Alexander willed that the Grecians and barbarians shou...
_But ye, brethren, are not_ As formerly; _in darkness_ In a state of gross ignorance respecting these and all other divine things; _that that_ awful _day_ Or the day of death, introductory thereto; _s...
YE ARE ALL THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT AND THE CHILDREN OF THE DAY; WE ARE NOT OF THE NIGHT NOR OF DARKNESS....
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...
“FOR YE ARE ALL SONS OF LIGHT, AND SONS OF THE DAY: WE ARE NOT OF THE NIGHT, NOR OF DARKNESS” “For”: The reason why it should not "overtake" us. “ALL”: The same level of morality is demanded of all b...
1-5 It is needless or useless to ask about the particular time of Christ's coming. Christ did not reveal this to the apostles. There are times and seasons for us to work in, and these are our duty an...
And because the night is the time of darkness, and the day of light, he therefore hereby describes their present state: 1. Positively: YE ARE ALL THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT, AND THE CHILDREN OF THE DAY; wh...
for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness;...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II For ye are all children of the light, and children of the day; we are not of the night, nor of the darkness."[184] Tertullian De Fuga in Persecutione he...
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‘For you are all sons of light, and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.' In contrast to those who are in darkness, Christians are ‘sons of light' and ‘sons of the day'. To be son...
1 Thessalonians 5:5. FOR ALL YE ARE SONS OF LIGHT AND SONS OF DAY. As ‘the children of this world' are those who wholly belong to it; as ‘the son of perdition' is the man of whom perdition is the most...
_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...
SONS OF LIGHT (υιο φωτος),SONS OF DAY (υιο ημερας). Chiefly a translation Hebraism (Deissmann, _Bible Studies_, pp. 161ff.). Cf. words of Jesus in Luke 16:8 and Paul in Ephesians 5:9. He repeats t...
1 Thessalonians 5:1 I. The Apostle having disclosed much in the foregoing verses about the Lord's second coming, and the respective shares in its glory which are to fall to those of His people who are...
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...
WHO BELONG TO THE LIGHT. Light is symbolic of truth. Truth makes you free (John 8:32). People of the night or the darkness reject Truth....
_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...
_Ye are all children of the light _ I. What it is to be of the night and darkness. This is a fitting symbol of a soul away from God, blind in understanding and heart and will. There is implied in it...
CHILDREN OF LIGHT Ye are all the children of light. 1 Thessalonians 5:5 (AV). Last winter I played a round game with a company of young people. In it the question was asked, “What does a certain wo...
1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 5:5 CHILDREN OF LIGHT. Those who belong to God and receive his salvation (Luke 16:8;...
_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...
Acts 26:18; Ephesians 5:8; John 12:36; Luke 16:8...
Ye are all. In the text gar for should be inserted after pantev all. Ye are not in darkness for ye are sons of light. Children of light [υ ι ο ι φ ω τ ο ς]. More correctly, sons of light. See on Mark...
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...