Not as an enemy
(μη ως εχθρον). This is always the problem in such ostracism as discipline, however necessary it is at times. Few things in our churches are more difficult of wise execution than the discipline of erring members. The word εχθρος is an adjective, hateful, from εχθος, hate. It can be passive,hated
, as in Romans 11:28, but is usually activehostile
, enemy, foe.
Verse 15. _COUNT_ HIM _NOT AS AN ENEMY_] Consider him still more an enemy to himself than to you; and _admonish him as a brother_, though you have ceased to hold religious communion with him. His soul...
YET COUNT HIM NOT AS AN ENEMY, BUT ADMONISH HIM AS A BROTHER - This shows the true spirit in which discipline is to be administered in the Christian church. We are not to deal with a man as an adversa...
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...
COUNT. reckon. Greek. _hegeomai._ See Philippians 1:2; Philippians 1:6....
_Yet count_him _not as an enemy, but admonish_him _as a brother_ Lit., AND DO NOT REGARD HIM AS AN ENEMY, &c. The R.V. retains "yet" in italics ("And _yet_"); but the contrast thus implied is not in S...
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...
ΚΑῚ ΜῊ ὩΣ ἘΧΘΡῸΝ ἩΓΕΙ͂ΣΘΕ, ἈΛΛᾺ ΝΟΥΘΕΤΕΙ͂ΤΕ ὩΣ�. _And do not regard_ (_him_) _as an enemy, but admonish_ (_him_) _as a brother_. The R.V. retains the intruded “yet” (after “and,” καί) of the A.V.; but...
§ 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...
ΉΓΕΊΣΘΕ _praes. imper. med. (dep.) от_ ΉΓΈΟΜΑΙ (G2233) считать, сводить баланс, ΝΟΥΘΕΤΕΊΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΝΟΥΘΕΤΈΩ (G3560) наставлять, исправлять (_см._ 1 Thessalonians 5:12)....
TEXT (2 Thessalonians 3:14-15) 14 AND IF ANY MAN OBEYETH NOT OUR WORD BY THIS EPISTLE, NOTE THAT MAN, THAT YE HAVE NO COMPANY WITH HIM, TO THE END THAT HE MAY BE ASHAMED. 15 AND YET COUNT HIM NOT AS...
Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. ADMONISH HIM AS A BROTHER - not yet excommunicated (cf. ). Do not shun him in contemptuous silence, but tell him why he is so avoided...
EXHORTATIONS, REBUKES, AND BENEDICTION 2. Unreasonable] almost 'outrageous.' FAITH] better, 'the Faith.'...
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...
YET. — The original is simply _And,_ which is much more beautiful, implying that this very withdrawal from brotherly intercourse was an act of brotherly kindness. AN ENEMY. — In the private, not the...
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...
Injunctions upon church-life and order....
Disapproval, as a means of moral discipline, loses all its effect if the offender does not realise its object and reason (νουθετεῖτε), or if it is tainted with personal hostility. ὡς ἀδελφόν. Compare...
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...
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR THE FAITHFUL Despite the fact that some had been lazy, Paul encouraged Christians to continue in all good works which were in accord with God's will. As Lipscomb says, "Nothing disco...
(14) Yet count [him] not as an enemy, but admonish [him] as a brother. (14) We must avoid familiarity with the one who has been excommunicated in such a way, that we diligently seek every occasion an...
Do not regard him as an enemy. A necessary introduction for those whom Providence has placed over others, to admonish and correct them, but with charity and peace; so that we neither be, nor give them...
(13) But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing. (14) And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. (15) Yet count him not as...
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...
15_Regard him not as an enemy_. He immediately adds a softening of his rigor; for, as he elsewhere commands, we must take care that the offender be not _swallowed up with sorrow_, (2 Corinthians 2:7,)...
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...
YET COUNT HIM NOT AS AN ENEMY,.... As an enemy of Christ, and the Christian religion, as the Jews and Pagans were; or as an enemy of all righteousness, as Elymas the sorcerer was; as one that has an i...
And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. 15 Yet count _him_ not as an enemy, but admonish _him_ as a brother. Ver. 15. _...
_But ye, brethren_ Who are not guilty of these, and such like miscarriages; _be not weary in well-doing_ In pursuing that line of conduct which is reputable and useful, which brings glory to God, and...
YET COUNT HIM NOT AS AN ENEMY, BUT ADMONISH HIM AS A BROTHER. Instead of condoning the tendency toward loafing, toward disorderly conduct, which was evident in the Thessalonian congregation, the apost...
The apostle once more urges church discipline:...
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...
“AND YET COUNT HIM NOT AS AN ENEMY, BUT ADMONISH HIM AS. BROTHER” “And yet”: The Bible is always quick to "check" us from falling into extremes. “COUNT HIM NOT AS AN ENEMY”: Morris notes, “He is eage...
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; They having thus proceeded against the disorderly and disobedient, the apostle directs them about their after-carriage, which either respects their inward opinion of the mind, or outward actio...
And yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. [They were not to give him the complete estrangement of Matthew 18:17. The purpose of discipline is to save (1 Corinthians 5:5). It is...
Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians I am deeply grieved, therefore, brethren, for him (Valens) and his wife; to whom may the Lord grant true repentance! And be ye then moderate in regard to this m...
2 Thessalonians 3:15 Yet G2532 not G3361 count G2233 (G5737) as G5613 enemy G2190 but G235 admonish G3560
2 Thessalonians 3:15. COUNT HIM NOT AS AN ENEMY. Though deprived, as we say, of church privileges, and shut out from fellowship with the members of the church, he was not to be counted hopeless. This...
_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 3:6 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...
INSTEAD, WARN HIM AS A BROTHER. Punishment has a way of getting _out of hand!_ The whole point of it, is not to _damn him to hell,_ but to _save him in eternity!_...
2 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 2 THESSALONIANS 3:6 The Problem of Lazy Christians. Paul instructs the Thessalonians to discipline those refusing to work....
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 2 Thessalonians 3:14. HAVE NO COMPANY WITH HIM.—The difference between this treatment of a delinquent and excommunication may be more in idea than fact. He would feel...
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 4:14; 1 Corinthians 5:5; 1 Thessalonians 5:14; 2 Corinthians 10:8;...
Admonish [ν ο υ θ ε τ ε ι τ ε]. See on Acts 20:31, and Ephesians 6:4....
Admonish him as a brother — Tell him lovingly of the reason why you shun him....