NT References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers
1 Thessalonians 5:3
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V
This, too, the apostle affirms: "When they shall say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction shall come upon them."[255]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V
This, too, the apostle affirms: "When they shall say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction shall come upon them."[255]
Verse 1 Thessalonians 5:3. _FOR WHEN THEY SHALL SAY, PEACE AND SAFETY_] This points out, very particularly, the state of the Jewish people when the Romans came against them; and so fully persuaded wer...
FOR WHEN THEY SHALL SAY, PEACE AND SAFETY - That is, when the wicked shall say this, for the apostle here refers only to those on whom “sudden destruction” will come; compare Matthew 24:36 notes; 2 Pe...
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)...
FOR. The texts omit. SHALL. Omit. SUDDEN. Greek. _aiphnidios._ Only here and Luke 21:34. DESTRUCTION. Greek. _olethros._ See 1 Corinthians 5:5. TRAVAIL. Greek. _odin_. See...
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...
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
_For when they shall say_ Rather, WHEN THEY ARE SAYING (R. V.). In the very act of their saying "Peace and safety" just when men of the world pronounce everything secure and quiet then the thief comes...
§ 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...
3. (_a_) ΟΤΑΝ alone: א*AG, 17, 47, latt syrpesh, Tert Cyp Orint. (_b_) ΟΤΑΝ ΔΕ, אcBD, cop syrhcl. (_c_) οταν γαρ, KLP, &c., vg, Dam Ambrst. This grouping of witnesses is peculiar. (_c_) may be rule...
ΌΤΑΝ (G3752) используется с _conj._, когда, когда бы ни. ΛΈΓΩΣΙΝ _praes. conj. act. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить, ΆΣΦΆΛΕΙΑ (G803) безопасность. В папирусах используется как юридический термин: гарантия...
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...
TEXT (1 Thessalonians 5:3) 3 WHEN THEY ARE SAYING, PEACE AND SAFETY, THEN SUDDEN DESTRUCTION COMETH UPON THEM, AS TRAVAIL UPON A WOMAN WITH CHILD; AND THEY SHALL IN NO WISE ESCAPE. Translation and P...
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. THEY - the men of the world. 1 Thessalonians 5:5;...
THE LORD'S PRESENCE 12 Paul gives us the true motive and incentive of a holy life and a steadfast faith. It springs from the overflow of love to our fellow saints and to all others as well. It looks f...
WHEN THEY SHALL SAY] i.e. when people are saying. 4, 5. THIEF] better, 'as thieves.' Thieves work in darkness. You are all children of light. Live up to your birthright....
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...
THEY. — Quite vague and general, like the French _on._ The plural is so used frequently in St. Luke (Luke 12:11; Luke 12:20, margin; Luke 16:9, probably; Luke 23
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...
ὅταν, κ. τ. λ., when the very words, “All's well,” “It is all right,” are on their lips. ἐπίσταται, of an enemy suddenly appearing (Isocrat., _Evag._, § 58 ἐπὶ τὸ βασίλειον ἐπιστάς, Herod. iv. 203). α...
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...
(1) В¶ 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 as a thief in the night. (3) For when the...
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...
3_For when they shall say_. Here we have an explanation of the similitude, _the day of the Lord will be like a thief in the night_. Why so? because it will come suddenly to unbelievers, when not looke...
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...
FOR WHEN THEY SHALL SAY,.... Or men shall say, that is, wicked and ungodly men, persons in a state of unregeneracy: PEACE AND SAFETY; when they shall sing a requiem, to themselves, promise themselves...
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. Ver. 3. _For when they shall say_] Security is the...
_For yourselves know perfectly_ It being a matter plainly revealed both by Christ and his apostles; _that the day of the Lord_ That great decisive day, to which our eyes and hearts are so much directe...
THEY; the wicked, who are living in careless security. Compare Matthew 24:37-39....
CHRISTIAN WATCHFULNESS WITH REFERENCE TO THE LAST DAY. The unexpected coming of the last day:...
FOR WHEN THEY SHALL SAY, PEACE AND SAFETY, THEN SUDDEN DESTRUCTION COMETH UPON THEM, AS TRAVAIL UPON A WOMAN WITH CHILD; AND THEY SHALL NOT ESCAPE. The same enthusiasm which looked forward to the comi...
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...
“WHEN THEY ARE SAYING, PEACE AND SAFETY, THEN SUDDEN DESTRUCTION COMETH UPON THEM, AS TRAVAIL UPON. WOMAN WITH CHILD; AND THEY SHALL IN NO WISE ESCAPE” “When”: Which connects 1 Thessalonians 1:3 with...
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...
FOR WHEN THEY SHALL SAY, PEACE AND SAFETY: by these words the apostle proves that the day of the Lord will come unexpected, by the security that will be then found in the world. They say it in their h...
When they [the thoughtless and careless] _are saying, Peace and safety_ [i. e., there is no ground for apprehension], _then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and...
1 Thessalonians 5:3 For G1063 when G3752 say G3004 (G5725) Peace G1515 and G2532 safety G803 then G5119
‘When they are saying “Peace and Safety (or ‘Certainty')”, then sudden destruction comes on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child, and they shall in no way escape.' This defines further the day o...
1 Thessalonians 5:3. WHEN THEY SHALL SAY. When ‘unbelieving and unthinking' men are persuading themselves that there is no cause for apprehension, then destruction comes upon them suddenly. AS TRAVAI...
_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...
WHEN THEY ARE SAYING (οταν λεγωσιν). Present active subjunctive picturing these false prophets ofPEACE AND SAFETY like Ezekiel 13:10 (Peace, and there is no peace). Ασφαλεια only in N.T. in Luke 1...
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...
WHEN PEOPLE say. Some think this means the signs which preceded the destruction of Jerusalem (_Matthew 24)_ will NOT appear again just before the Second Coming. People will be saying: "everything is q...
_When they shall say, Peace and Safety _ THE DAY OF DAYS If Scripture did not warrant the figure in which the future coming of the Lord is compared to the act of a felon breaking into a house at nig...
_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...
1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 5:2 The phrase DAY OF THE LORD is common in the OT Prophets (see note on Amos 5:18–20). It refers to the great and terrible day when Yahweh will punish the
_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...
2 Chronicles 32:19; 2 Peter 2:4; 2 Thessalonians 1:9; Acts 12:22;...
When they shall say. The prediction is thrown into dramatic form. Cometh upon [ε π ι σ τ α τ α ι]. See Luke 21:34; Luke 21:36. Often in N. T. of a person coming suddenly upon another; as Luke 2:9;...
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...
When they — The men of the world say....