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Verse 6. _LET US NOT SLEEP, AS_ DO _OTHERS_] Let _us_ who are of the
_day_-who believe the Gospel and belong to Christ, not give way to a
careless, unconcerned state of mind, like to the Gentiles and...
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THEREFORE LET US NO SLEEP, AS DO OTHERS - As the wicked world does;
compare notes, Matthew 25:5.
BUT LET US WATCH - That is, for the coming of the Lord. Let us regard
it as an event which is certainly...
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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
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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...
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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...
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LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT (1 Thessalonians 5:1-11)...
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SLEEP. App-171.
OTHERS. App-124.
WATCH. See Matthew 24:42.
BE SOBER. Greek. _nepho._ Here, 1Th 5:8. 2 Timothy 4:5; 1 Peter 1:13.
1Pe 4:7....
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_Therefore_ More exactly, ACCORDINGLY THEN. The double conjunction
here employed is an idiom peculiar to St Paul, which appears once in 2
Thess. (ch. 1 Thessalonians 2:15), eight times in Romans, and...
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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
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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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ΩΣ without και, א*AB 17, cop syrpesh: και belongs to the
Western and Syrian witnesses; cf. 1 Thessalonians 4:13; Ephesians 2:3.
6. ἌΡΑ ΟΥ̓͂Ν ΜῊ ΚΑΘΕΎΔΩΜΕΝ ὩΣ ΟἹ
ΛΟΙΠΟΊ, ἈΛΛᾺ ΓΡΗΓΟΡΩ͂ΜΕΝ ΚΑῚ
ΝΉΦΩΜΕΝ: a...
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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...
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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...
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TEXT (1 Thessalonians 5:6-7)
6 SO THEN LET US NOT SLEEP, AS DO THE REST, BUT LET US WATCH AND BE
SOBER. 7 FOR THEY THAT SLEEP SLEEP IN THE NIGHT; AND THEY THAT ARE
DRUNKEN ARE DRUNKEN IN THE NIGHT....
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Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be
sober.
OTHERS, [ hoi (G3588) loipoi (G3062)] - 'the rest' of the world (1
Thessalonians 4:13). "Sleep" here is worldly apathy...
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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...
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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)....
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LET US NOT SLEEP] i.e. in carelessness and sin. OTHERS] better, 'the
others.'
8-10. Mason paraphrases, 'Let us arm ourselves with a brave hope of
our salvation, for it will be against God's will if w...
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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...
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LET US NOT SLEEP. — The metaphor here expresses not so much actual
sin (Ephesians 5:14) as carelessness in spiritual and moral things.
“Let _us_ not say, ‘Peace and safety,’ and resign ourselves to
in...
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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...
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περὶ τῶν χρόνων καὶ τῶν καιρῶν....
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To be alert, in one's sober senses (νήφειν), is more than to be
merely awake. Here, as in 1 Thessalonians 5:8, the Christians are
summoned to live up to their privileges and position towards the Lord....
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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...
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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...
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ENCOURAGEMENT TO WATCHFULNESS
Sinful people, in contrast, are part of the kingdom of darkness. Those
without a hope of being raised from the dead are like a guard who
sleeps on duty. Instead of being...
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(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...
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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...
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6_Therefore let us not sleep_. He adds other metaphors closely allied
to the preceding one. For as he lately shewed that it were by no means
seemly that they should be blind in the midst of light, so...
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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...
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THEREFORE LET US NOT SLEEP AS DO OTHERS.... As the rest of the
Gentiles, as unconverted persons, who are in a state of darkness, and
are children of the night; let us not act that part they do, or be...
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Therefore let us not sleep, as _do_ others; but let us watch and be
sober.
Ver. 6. _As do others_] What wonder that the Grecians live loosely?
saith Chrysostom; but that Christians do so, this is wor...
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_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...
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SLEEP; live in stupidity and carnal security, unmindful of and
uninfluenced by the great truths of the gospel. As we know that God
will call us to judgment, but cannot know when, we should be always
r...
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THEREFORE LET US NOT SLEEP, AS DO OTHERS, BUT LET US WATCH AND BE
SOBER....
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The alertness and vigilance of the Christians:...
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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...
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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...
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“SO THEN LET US NOT SLEEP, AS DO THE REST, BUT LET US WATCH AND BE
SOBER”
“So then”: Since we live in the light (John 8:12). “LET US NOT
SLEEP”: “Sleep in. figurative or spiritual and moral sense.
'A...
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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...
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The apostle draws this inference from the foregoing verses in a
twofold duty:
1. Negative; LET US NOT SLEEP, AS DO OTHERS; sleep is not proper for
the children of the day, but of the night. And as the...
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so then let us not sleep, as do the rest [the pagans]_, but let us
watch and be sober_....
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Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV
But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of
faith and love, and as an helmet the hope of salvation."[210]...
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1 Thessalonians 5:6 Therefore G686 G3767 us G2518 not G3361 sleep
G2518 (G5725) as G5613 G2532 others...
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‘So then let us not sleep as do the rest, but let us watch and be
sober, for those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are
drunken, are drunken in the night, but let us, since we are of the
d...
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1 Thessalonians 5:6. THEREFORE, LET US NOT SLEEP. There _is_ a conduct
appropriate to every position. Our position as children of light
implies a certain corresponding wakefulness. We are the children...
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_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...
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SO THEN
(αρα ουν). Two inferential particles, accordingly therefore, as
in 2 Thessalonians 2:15 and only in Paul in N.T.LET US NOT SLEEP
(μη καθευδωμεν). Present active subjunctive (volitive),
le...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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WE SHOULD BE AWAKE AND SOBER. Christians must be alert to spiritual
danger, and must live transformed lives (_see_ 1 Thessalonians
4:11-12; Luke 21:34-36)....
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_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...
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_Therefore let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be
sober _
SLEEP
I. The sleep of sin--Scripture teaches us, with the utmost
explicitness, that a state of sin is a state of slumber. Sl...
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1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 5:6 SO THEN. Paul gives
general instructions based on the reassurances in v. 1 Thessalonians
5:5....
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 15:34; 1 Corinthians 16:13; 1 Peter 1:13; 1 Peter 4:7;...
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Others [ο ι λ ο ι π ο ι]. The rest, as ch. 4 13.
Let us watch [γ ρ η γ ο ρ ω μ ε ν]. See on Mark 13:35, and
comp. Ephesians 5:14.
Be sober [ν η φ ω μ ε ν]. Primarily in a physical sense, as
opposed t...
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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...
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Awake, and keep awake — Being awakened, let us have all our
spiritual senses about us....
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The apostle having acquainted the Thessalonians with the privilege of
their converted state, that they were the children of the light,
having received. light of knowlege,. light of grace and holiness,...