έχομεν praes. ind. act. от εχω (G2192) иметь,
τύπος (G5179) тип, пример (см. 1 Thessalonians 1:7; TDNT).
δώμεν aor. conj. act. от δίδωμι (G1325) давать. Conj. с 'ίνα (G2443) выражает цель,
μιμεϊσθαι praes. med. (dep.) inf. от μιμέομαι (G3401) подражать. Артикулированный inf. с είς 1 (G1519) выражает цель или результат.
Verse 9. _NOT BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT POWER_] We have the power, εξουσιαν, the _right_, to be maintained by those in whose behalf we labour. _The labourer is worthy of his hire_, is a maxim universally a...
NOT BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT POWER ... - See the notes on 1 Corinthians 9:6, 1 Corinthians 9:12, 1 Corinthians 9:14....
III. THANKSGIVING, PRAYER, EXHORTATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS Chapter S 2:13-3:18 _ 1. Thanksgiving and prayer (2 Thessalonians 2:13)_ 2. Prayer for the Word and for deliverance (2 Thessalonians 3:1) 3....
THE REBUKE TO THE DISORDERLY. Under _the_ influence of the Parousia Hope some Thessalonian Christians abandoned their ordinary occupations and claimed the right to be supported by the Church. Paul poi...
2 THESSALONIANS 3. FINAL COUNSELS AND EXHORTATIONS. The apostle (_a)_ asks for the prayers of the Thessalonian Christians on his own behalf (2 Thessalonians 3:1); (_b_) warns them against dis orderly...
A FINAL WORD (2 Thessalonians 3:1-5)...
Brothers, we command you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, keep yourselves from every brother who behaves like a truant from duty and who does not conduct himself in accordance with the teaching w...
POWER. App-172. TO. in order that (as 2 Thessalonians 3:1) we may. ENSAMPLE. Greek. _tupos._ Compare Philippians 1:3, Php 1:17. 1 Thessalonians 1:7;...
Section V. Discipline for the Disorderly Ch. 2 Thessalonians 3:6-15 In his former letter St Paul had found it needful to exhort his readers to live a quiet life and to attend to their daily duties a...
_not because we have not power_ Better, HAVE NOT THE RIGHT (moral power, authority) viz., "to lay the charge of our maintenance upon the Church;" see note on 1 Thessalonians 2:6. In the other Epistle...
ΟΥ̓Χ ὍΤΙ ΟΥ̓Κ ἜΧΟΜΕΝ ἘΞΟΥΣΊΑΝ, _not that we are without right_ (to act otherwise, to claim our maintenance: _scil._ ἐξουσίαν τοῦ δωρεὰν ἄρτον φαγεῖν· τοῦ φαγεῖν καὶ πεῖν, τοῦ μὴ ἐργάζεσθαι—see 1 Corin...
§ 5. 2 Thessalonians 3:6-15. THE CASE OF THE IDLERS This section contains the chief matter pointed to in ΤῸ ΛΟΙΠΌΝ of 2 Thessalonians 3:1 (see note above). But the added homily is no afterthought; it...
NOT BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT POWER;— St. Paul would not here leave room. for any person to insinuate, as we find his enemies did at Corinth, 1 Corinthians 9:1; 1 Corinthians 9:27 that he knew himself not t...
TEXT (2 Thessalonians 3:9) 9 NOT BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT THE RIGHT, BUT TO MAKE OURSELVES AN ENSAMPLE UNTO YOU, THAT YE SHOULD IMITATE US. Translation and Paraphrase 9. (Now we did) not (labor to suppo...
Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us. (1 Corinthians 9:4, etc.; .)...
EXHORTATIONS, REBUKES, AND BENEDICTION 2. Unreasonable] almost 'outrageous.' FAITH] better, 'the Faith.'...
POWER] better, 'the right.' We have the right to be supported, but for the sake of example we waived it in your case (1 Corinthians 9:3)....
THE *LORD HAS NOT COME YET 2 THE THESSALONIANS _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 3 A REQUEST FOR PRAYER 3:1-2 V1 For the rest, *brothers and *sisters, please pray for us. Ask the *Lord that he will use us...
POWER. — Rather, _authority,_ which is power _plus_ legitimacy, How jealously St. Paul guards the rights of the Apostolate! not for himself, but for the brethren of the Lord and Cephas (1 Corinthians...
CHAPTER 23 THE CHRISTIAN WORTH OF LABOUR 2 Thessalonians 3:6 (R.V.) THIS passage is very similar in contents to one in the fourth chapter of the First Epistle. The difference between the two is in t...
The apostles had the right to be maintained by the church, but in this case they had refused to avail themselves of it. The Thessalonians are not to misconstrue their action....
Injunctions upon church-life and order....
SEPARATE; INDUSTRIOUS; PERSEVERING 2 Thessalonians 3:6 From his high expectations of the Advent, the Apostle turns to the prosaic commonplaces of daily toil. There was need for this, because the expe...
In conclusion the apostle urged them to pray for him that the preaching of the Word in other places might be with power and victory. He affirmed his confidence in them, and expressed his desire for th...
PAUL'S EXAMPLE AMONG THEM Paul urged them to remember the example he had set when in Thessalonica (1 Thessalonians 2:9). He had worked night and day so that they might hear the gospel and he could ear...
If I, to whom you are indebted for the preaching of the gospel, have yielded my claims, unwilling to receive any thing from you, and even labouring with my own hands for the necessaries of life, how a...
(6) В¶ Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us....
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...
9_Not because we have not_. As Paul wished by his laboring to set an example, that idle persons might not like drones (707) eat the bread of others, so he was not willing that this very thing (708) sh...
There is nothing very particular in the apostle's exhortations. His great concern was the explanation which we have been considering. He prays that God and the Lord Jesus Himself, who had given them t...
NOT BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT POWER,.... To forbear working, or require a maintenance from the churches to whom we minister, since Christ has ordained, that they that preach the Gospel should live of the Go...
Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us. Ver. 9. _Not because we have not power_] _Posse et nolle nobile est._ (Chrysost.) _See Trapp on "_ 1Co 9:4 _"_...
_We command you, brethren_ We solemnly charge you; _in the name of the Lord._ (see on 1 Corinthians 5:4,) the credit and progress of whose religion are so nearly concerned in the matter; _that ye with...
POWER; authority and right, according to the gospel, to receive support while preaching it. AN ENSAMPLE; of diligence in business and readiness to labor and suffer for the good of others. True benevo...
A warning against disorderly conduct, with Paul's example of right living:...
NOT BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT POWER, BUT TO MAKE OURSELVES AN ENSAMPLE UNTO YOU TO FOLLOW US....
As in the first epistle, so the apostle again asks for their prayers: first for the positive blessing of the Word of God which thy proclaimed that it might have free course to go forward and be glorif...
“NOT BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT THE RIGHT, BUT TO MAKE OURSELVES AND ENSAMPLE UNTO YOU, THAT YE SHOULD IMITATE US” “Not because we have not the right”: The right to be financially supported,. right that Pau...
6-15 Those who have received the gospel, are to live according to the gospel. Such as could work, and would not, were not to be maintained in idleness. Christianity is not to countenance slothfulness...
OLBGrk; The contents of this verse are already spoken to in the former, only the apostle asserts the right of maintenance due to the ministry by the name of POWER. It may be claimed by authority from...
not because we have not the right [to demand support while preaching-- Luke 10:7; 1 Corinthians 9:1-18], _but to make ourselves an ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us_. [Many of the Thessalon...
2 Thessalonians 3:9 not G3756 because G3754 not G3756 have G2192 (G5719) authority G1849 but G235 to G2443
_Exhortations to Industry, and Directions regarding the Treatment of Idle and Disorderly Persons._ In this concluding paragraph of his Epistle, Paul warns the Thessalonians against neglecting their wo...
2 Thessalonians 3:9. NOT BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT POWER. This is the idea which Paul expands in his First Epistle to the Corinthians, chap. 9; where he shows at large the reasonableness of ministerial work...
NOT BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT THE RIGHT (ουχ οτ ουκ εχομεν εξουσιαν). Paul is sensitive on hisRIGHT to receive adequate support (1 Thessalonians 2:6; 1 Thessalonians 2:1 where he uses the same word εξο...
2 Thessalonians 3:6 I. In this passage the Apostle teaches the Thessalonians that in tranquillity, sedateness of heart and life, they are severally, not only to work, but to do their own work, and so...
2 Thessalonians 3:1. _Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:_ A most important request. What can the ministers of th...
CONTENTS: Paul's encouragements and exhortations to the Thessalonians. CHARACTERS: Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: It is required of those who have professed Christianity, that they live according to the p...
2 Thessalonians 3:1. _Finally, brethren, pray for us._ This request is of constant occurrence. Ephesians 6:18. Paul often ascribes his preservation to the prayers of the saints. He solicits prayer tha...
TO BE AN EXAMPLE. Paul had every right to be supported by the church, (and he did this some times, 2 Corinthians 11:8); but here conditions demanded he set them an example. But the Thessalonians must...
2 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 2 THESSALONIANS 3:6 The Problem of Lazy Christians. Paul instructs the Thessalonians to discipline those refusing to work....
2 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 2 THESSALONIANS 3:7 The missionaries had taught the need to work for a living both by example and through instruction. ⇐...
2 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 2 THESSALONIANS 3:8 EAT ANYONE’S BREAD WITHOUT PAYING FOR IT. Paul refused to depend on others for his living. He took on manual labor in addition to his ministry commitments t...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— 2 Thessalonians 3:8_ Self-denying Labour. Pioneer work involves hard toil and much patience and self-denial. The character and surroundings of the people whose hig...
EXPOSITION CONTENTS.—The apostle now comes to the conclusion of his Epistle. He beseeches the Thessalonians for an interest in their prayers, that the gospel may be rapidly diffused and glorified by n...
Finally, brethren, pray for us (2 Thessalonians 3:1), Now again Paul is calling for prayer for him. I think that maybe sometimes we are guilty of not praying for those in spiritual leadership feeling...
1 Corinthians 9:4; 1 Peter 2:21; 1 Thessalonians 2:6; 2 Thessalonians 3:7;...
Power [ε ξ ο υ σ ι α ν]. Better, right. See on Mark 2:10; John 1:12....