18Comfort. He now shews more openly what I have previously stated — that in the faith of the resurrection we have good ground of consolation, provided we are members of Christ, and are truly united to him as our Head. At the same time, the Apostle would not have each one to seek for himself assuagement of grief, but also to administer it to others.
Verse 1 Thessalonians 4:18. _COMFORT ONE ANOTHER WITH THESE WORDS._] Strange saying! comfort a man with the information that he is going to appear before the judgment-seat of God! Who can feel comfor...
WHEREFORE COMFORT ONE ANOTHER - Margin, “exhort.” The word comfort probably best expresses the meaning. They were to bring these glorious truths and these bright prospects be fore their minds, in orde...
IV. THE SEPARATED WALK AND THE BLESSED HOPE CHAPTER 4 _ 1. The separated walk 1 Thessalonians 4:1)_ 2. The coming of the Lord for His saints 1 Thessalonians 4:13)...
THE CONDITION OF THE DEAD. This paragraph is written to allay a misgiving which had arisen among the Thessalonian Christians that certain of their friends who had died would be deprived of their share...
THE SUMMONS TO PURITY (1 Thessalonians 4:1-8)...
We do not wish you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who are asleep, because we do not wish you to sorrow as the rest of people do because they have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and...
WHEREFORE. So then. COMFORT. Same as "beseech", 1 Thessalonians 4:10....
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
_Wherefore comfort one another with these words_ Lit., IN THESE WORDS, in the revelation just communicated the readers are to find comfort for each other under their recent bereavement, and in all suc...
ὭΣΤΕ ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΕΙ͂ΤΕ�. _Therefore cheer one another in these words_,—the λόγος κυρίου which 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17 have communicated, and the other apostolic words accompanying it. Ὥστε with imperative,...
§ 8. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. Concerning them that fall asleep Thessalonian faith had its “deficiencies” on the doctrinal as well as the practical side (see note introductory to last section). In rega...
ΏΣΤΕ (G5620) следовательно, ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΕΊΤΕPRAES. _imper. act. от_ ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΈΩ (G3870) ободрять....
DISCOURSE: 2202 THE RESURRECTION 1 Thessalonians 4:13. I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For, if w...
TEXT (1 Thessalonians 4:17-18) 17 then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18 Wh...
Wherefore comfort one another with these words. COMFORT ONE ANOTHER - in your mourning for the dead ()....
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...
EXHORTATION TO PURITY AND BROTHERLY LOVE. THE SECOND ADVENT 1. 'You are already walking in the right path. I want you to advance in it more and more.' 3, 4. Translate, 'For this is a thing willed by...
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 4 HOW YOU OUGHT TO LIVE 4:1-8 V1 Brothers and sisters, y...
COMFORT ONE ANOTHER. — Here is a balm for the “sorrow” of 1 Thessalonians 4:13. Bather, “_in_ these words” than “_with_;” “Repeat these very words to one another, and you will find the comfort.” What...
CHAPTER 11 THE DEAD IN CHRIST 1 Thessalonians 4:13 (R.V.) THE restlessness of the Thessalonians, which caused some of them to neglect their daily work, was the result of strained expectations of Chr...
ἐν τοῖς λόγοις τούτοις. Paul had an intelligible word upon the future, unlike the Hellenic mysteries which usually made religion a matter of feeling rather than of definite teaching (Hardie's _Lect. o...
περὶ τῶν κοιμωμένων....
UNITED NOW AND HEREAFTER IN THE LORD 1 Thessalonians 4:9 It is suggested that God Himself is the teacher of love. Others may teach the lower classes in the school of grace, but the highest is reserve...
At this point in his letter the apostle turned to exhortation. Timothy's report concerning the Thessalonians' condition had indicated that they needed some words of kindly warning. The first subject i...
THE SECOND COMING IS A MESSAGE OF COMFORT Though Paul was many miles away from the young church in Thessalonica when he penned the words of this letter, he deeply desired that they know the comfort av...
(13) В¶ But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. (14) For if we believe that Jesus died and rose agai...
REFLECTIONS READER! what a blessed consideration is it, to the renewed soul in Christ, that He who is made of God to us wisdom, and righteousness; is no less our sanctification, and redemption? And, i...
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 apostle then turns to the dangers that beset the Thessalonians in consequence of their former habits (and which were still those of the persons that surrounded them), habits in direct contradictio...
WHEREFORE COMFORT ONE ANOTHER WITH THESE WORDS. Or doctrines; as that the saints, when they die, do not cease to be, but are asleep, and asleep in Jesus; that their souls are with him, and their bodie...
Wherefore comfort one another with these words. Ver. 18. _Wherefore comfort, &c._] Scripture comforts come home to the heart, so do not philosophical. _Nescio quomodo_ (saith Cicero of such _medicina...
_The Lord himself_ The Lord Christ, arrayed in all his own glory, and in that of his Father; _shall descend from heaven_ “This expression does not imply that the Lord Jesus will fix his tribunal on th...
The prospect of meeting our pious friends at the day of judgment, and with them, perfect in body and soul, ascending with Christ and all his redeemed, to be for ever like him, soothes the anguish of p...
INFORMATION ABOUT THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD....
WHEREFORE COMFORT ONE ANOTHER WITH THESE WORDS. It seems that the Thessalonian Christians, in their excessive eagerness concerning the second coming of the Lord, had stumbled into various misunderstan...
The end of Chapter 3 has encouraged their abounding love. Here the apostle adds to this the entreaty that they abound in obedience. No amount of love can make up for a disobedient walk, for love and o...
C. The problem about those who had died, 4:13-18 13 BUT I WOULD NOT HAVE YOU TO BE IGNORANT, BRETHREN, CONCERNING THEM WHICH ARE ASLEEP, THAT YE SORROW NOT, EVEN AS OTHERS WHICH HAVE NO HOPE. 14 Fo...
COMFORT: Or, exhort...
“WHEREFORE COMFORT ONE ANOTHER WITH THESE WORDS” “Comfort”: To call near, invite, invoke (by imploration, exhortation or consolation). “ONE ANOTHER”: The responsibility is mutual. “WITH THESE WORDS”:...
13-18 Here is comfort for the relations and friends of those who die in the Lord. Grief for the death of friends is lawful; we may weep for our own loss, though it may be their gain. Christianity doe...
The apostle makes application of all this discourse to the end he designed, which was to comfort them under their sorrows for departed Christian friends; and he saith not, be ye comforted, but COMFORT...
Wherefore comfort one another with these words. [Thus are we commanded to tell all Christians who mourn that they will meet their lost in Christ on the day that Christ appears, and that in sweet union...
1 Thessalonians 4:18 Therefore G5620 comfort G3870 (G5720) another G240 with G1722 these G5125 words G3056 Therefore -...
‘Wherefore comfort one another with these words.' The word for comfort is parakaleo, ‘comfort, strengthen, firmly assist'. The first comfort is found in that they need no longer fear at the thought of...
THE COMING OF CHRIST FOR HIS OWN (1 THESSALONIANS 4:13). Paul assures the Thessalonians that those who have died in Christ will not be disadvantaged as against those who will be alive at His coming,...
1 Thessalonians 4:18. WHEREFORE. There being no ground for your supposing that your dead friends will suffer any disadvantage from dying before Christ comes. COMFORT ONE ANOTHER WITH THESE WORDS. Pau...
_Comfort for the Bereaved concerning the Prospects of the Departed._ Paul had preached to the Thessalonians the doctrine of the Second Coming of Christ, and they had apparently taken up the impression...
WITH THESE WORDS (εν τοις λογοις τουτοις). In these words. They were a comfort to the Thessalonians as they still comfort the people of God....
1 Thessalonians 4:16 The Apostle draws aside yet more the curtain of futurity. He increases and confirms the comfort which "by the word of the Lord" he offers to believers, by revealing additional tru...
1 Thessalonians 4:18 Personal Identity in the Resurrection. I. The context states the identity of the saint after the resurrection and before it. We shall be the same persons hereafter that we are he...
1 Thessalonians 4:13. _But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope._ You cannot help sorrowing, for you...
CONTENTS: The model walk of the believer. The hope of Christ's return. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: The design of the Gospel is to teach men not only what they should believe, but also how t...
1 Thessalonians 4:1. _We beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us_ the moral maxims of life and conduct, not only in word but also in writing, _how ye ou...
CHEER EACH OTHER UP WITH THESE WORDS. Tell those who are sad about their fellow believers having died, that when they are called to meet the Lord, they will find their own dead raised to life and in t...
1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 4:18 Understanding about the Lord’s return should bring comfort and encouragement, not fear and division. THESE WORDS refers to vv....
1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 4:13 Paul answers the Thessalonians’ questions about Christians who die before Jesus returns. ⇐...
1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 4:1 Instruction and Exhortation. Paul gives instructions on pleasing God (1 Thessalonians 4:1), the seco
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Thessalonians 4:15. WE WHICH ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN UNTO THE COMING OF THE LORD.—“We must recognise that Paul here includes himself, along with the Thessalonians, amon...
EXPOSITION CONTENTS.—With this chapter the second portion of the Epistle—its practical application-commences. The apostle exhorts and entreats the Thessalonians to make progress in the Christian life,...
Let's turn to first Thessalonians chapter four. Paul the apostle was called of God by the Spirit to go to Macedonia, as he saw in a vision a man from Macedonia saying, "Come over and help us." It was...
1 Thessalonians 5:11; 1 Thessalonians 5:14; Hebrews 10:24; Hebrews 10:25;...
That is, draw matter of consolation to yourselves from the foregoing considerations, against the loss of your deceased friends; intimating, that the best and choicest of comforts, for supporting the s...