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Verse 5. _A MANIFEST TOKEN OF THE RIGHTEOUSNESS JUDGEMENT OF_ _GOD_]
The persecutions and tribulations which you endure, are a manifest
proof that God has judged righteously in calling you Gentiles i...
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WHICH IS A MANIFEST TOKEN OF THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT OF GOD - The word
“which” is supplied by our translators, and there may be some
doubt to what the apostle has reference as being “a manifest token
o...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS (2 Thessalonians 1:1-10)...
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MANIFEST TOKEN. Greek. _endeigma._ Only here.
RIGHTEOUS. App-191.
JUDGMENT. App-177. Compare Philippians 1:1; Philippians 1:28.
THAT YE MAY BE. to (Greek. _eis)_ your being.
COUNTED WORTHY. See...
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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...
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which is _a manifest token of the righteous judgement of God_ Better,
without the connecting words of the English version, A TOKEN OF THE
RIGHTEOUS JUDGEMENT OF GOD.
The heroic faith of the Thessalon...
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§ 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...
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ἜΝΔΕΙΓΜΑ ΤΗ͂Σ ΔΙΚΑΊΑΣ ΚΡΊΣΕΩΣ ΤΟΥ͂
ΘΕΟΥ͂, _a plain token of the righteous judgement of God_.
Ἔνδειγμα, not _exemplum_, as in the Vulg.—this renders
παράδειγμα; but _indicium_ (Beza), or better still,...
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DISCOURSE: 2210
THE STATE OF THE THESSALONIAN CHURCH
2 Thessalonians 1:3. We are bound to thank God always for you,
brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly,
and the charit...
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WHICH IS A MANIFEST TOKEN— The exercise of God's justice has a
double object; respecting good men for their purification, and
respecting bad men for their punishment. Persecution inflicted and
suffere...
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TEXT (2 Thessalonians 1:5)
5 _WHICH IS_ A MANIFEST TAKEN OF THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT OF GOD; TO THE
END THAT YE MAY BE COUNTED WORTHY OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD, FOR WHICH YE
ALSO SUFFER;
Translation and P...
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Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye
may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
WHICH. Your enduring tribulations is a 'token of the (futu...
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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...
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SALUTATIONS. THE SECOND ADVENT
1-4. Greeting and thanksgiving for their constant faith and love and
patience under persecution: cp. 1 Thessalonians 1:3.
5-C. 2 THESSALONIANS 2:17. The Coming of Chri...
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A MANIFEST TOKEN] The words refer to their sufferings and their
patience. If God is righteous there must come a time when wrongs such
as theirs shall be righted, and patience like theirs be rewarded....
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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...
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WHICH IS... — In the fervid eloquence of the original these
connecting words are omitted, and the clause added in a kind of
apposition to the words “in all your persecutions;” the effect is
the same a...
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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...
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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
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ἔνδειγμα, in apposition to the general thought of the
preceding clause; it does not matter to the sense whether the word is
taken as an elliptic nominative or an appositional accusative. “All
this is...
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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
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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...
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GOD'S COMING JUDGMENT
The very fact that they were able to endure such hardships was a clear
indication that God was with them. It also foreshadowed a day when God
would judge all and punish those who...
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(2) [Which is] a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that
ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also
suffer:
(2) He shows the source of all true comfort, that is,...
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For an example of the just judgment of God. That is, that the
persecutions and troubles you suffer in this world shew the justice of
God in punishing men for their sins, even in this life, so that by...
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(3) We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet,
because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of
everyone of you all toward each other aboundeth; (4) So that we
o...
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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...
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5_A demonstration of the righteous judgment of God_. Without
mentioning the exposition given by others, I am of opinion that the
true meaning is this — that the injuries and persecutions which
innocen...
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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...
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WHICH IS A MANIFEST TOKEN OF THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT OF GOD,.... That
is, according as some think, that God should glorify those that are
persecuted, and punish their persecutors: this sense indeed may...
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_Which is_ a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye
may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
Ver. 5. _Which is a manifest token_] ενδειγμα, _indigitati...
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_We are bound to thank God_ It is highly observable that the apostle
here wraps up his praise of men in praise to God, giving him the glory
of the increase of grace which was manifest in the Thessalon...
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A MANIFEST TOKEN; your "patience and faith," namely, "in all your
persecutions and tribulations," endured for Christ's sake, make it
manifest that a righteous judgment is coming when God will gracious...
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WHICH IS A MANIFEST TOKEN OF THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT OF GOD, THAT YE
MAY BE COUNTED WORTHY OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD, FOR WHICH YE ALSO SUFFER;...
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PAUL'S PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING AND INTERCESSION.
A prayer of thanksgiving for steadfastness in the midst of
afflictions:...
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(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...
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Paul often begins his letters by expressing gratitude for the faith of
those to whom the epistle is addressed. Their faith was growing
exceedingly. They showed love for each other.
4. Paul rejoices i...
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“WHICH IS. MANIFEST TOKEN OF THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT OF GOD; TO THE
END THAT YE MAY BE COUNTED WORTHY OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD, FOR WHICH YE
ALSO SUFFER”
“Which is”: “We come now to the main point of. The...
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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...
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OLBGrk;
These words seem to follow by way of argument, to comfort these
Thessalonians under their sufferings:
1. By what they MANIFEST, viz. THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT OF GOD; they are
a plain indication...
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which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God; to the end
that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also
suffer :...
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2 Thessalonians 1:5 evidence G1730 righteous G1342 judgment G2920 God
G2316 that G1519 you G5209 worthy G2661 ...
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‘So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God, for your
patient endurance and faith in all your persecutions and in the
afflictions which you endure, a manifest token of the righteous
judg...
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_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...
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2 Thessalonians 1:5. A TOKEN OF THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT OF GOD. The
just judgment of God here referred to is that future and final
allotment of rewards and punishments which is to take place at the
sec...
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A MANIFEST TOKEN OF THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT OF GOD
(ενδειγμα της δικαιας κρισεως του
θεου). Old word from ενδεικνυμ, to point out, result
reached (-μα), a thing proved. It is either in the accusative...
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2 Thessalonians 1:1
I. This Epistle opens with the mention of the same Apostolic group as
does the first. Paul was not alone: Silvanus and Timotheus were still
with him in closest fellowship of toil a...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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WE MUST THANK GOD AT ALL TIMES FOR YOU. In 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13,
Paul says he spoke to God _day and night_ about them. Here he shows
that his prayers were answered. Paul's messenger had come back wi...
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_Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God _
PERSECUTIONS A DEMONSTRATION OF THE JUDGMENT
I. State the point.
1. It concerns us to be fully persuaded of the truth of a future
judgm...
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2 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 2 THESSALONIANS 1:5 The Thessalonians’
endurance and faith under persecution show EVIDENCE OF THE RIGHTEOUS
JUDGMENT OF GOD. God is giving them the grace to endure. He is clear...
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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
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_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_
2 Thessalonians 1:5. WHICH IS A MANIFEST TOKEN—“An
_indication_.” The steadfast and resolute continuance in the
profession and adornment of the Christian faith, in fa...
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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...
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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...
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1 Peter 4:14; 1 Thessalonians 2:14; 2 Thessalonians 1:11; 2
Thessalonians 1:6;...
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A manifest token [ε ν δ ε ι γ μ α]. N. T. o. Comp. endeixiv,
Philippians 1:28. The token is the patience and faith with which they
endure persecution and tribulation. It is a token of the righteous
ju...
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A manifest token — This is treated of in 2 Thessalonians 1:6 and
following verses....
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As if he had said, " Which tribulations and persecutions, or which
patience under your present persecutons, is. sign and token, yea, and
evidence and manifestation, that God, the righteous judge, will...