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Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)

1 Thessalonians 5:11

1 Thessalonians 5:11. Wherefore. There being such good grounds for hopefulness about the departed, comfort one another.

Edify. ‘From the frequent application of the term house or temple to Christians collectively (as 1 Corinthians 3:16, Know ye not that ye are the temple of God?) and individually (as 1 Corinthians 6:19, Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost?), the figure of building is naturally used to express their improvement and advancement in the life of God' (Vaughan).

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 11. _COMFORT - ONE ANOTHER_] Rest assured that, in all times and circumstances, it shall be well with the righteous; let every man lay this to heart; and with this consideration _comfort_ and _e...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WHEREFORE COMFORT YOURSELVES - notes, 1 Thessalonians 4:18. AND EDIFY ONE ANOTHER - Strive to build up each other, or to establish each other in the faith by these truths; notes, Romans 14:19....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT (1 Thessalonians 5:1-11)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    COMFORT. App-134. Same as in 1 Thessalonians 4:18. ALSO YE DO. ye are doing also....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Wherefore comfort yourselves together_ EXHORT (or ENCOURAGE) ONE ANOTHER same verb as in ch. 1 Thessalonians 4:18 (see note, and on ch. 1 Thessalonians 3:2). While "encouragement" would be drawn esp...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    § 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...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΔΙῸ ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΕΙ͂ΤΕ�, a repetition of 1 Thessalonians 4:18, showing that the matter of this section is closely bound up with that of the last; their misgiving about the lot of Christians dying prematurel...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    WHEREFORE COMFORT YOURSELVES TOGETHER,— He had used this expression ch. 1 Thessalonians 4:18. All that he has said since, concerning the time of Christ's coming, and the necessity of preparing for it,...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT (1 Thessalonians 5:11) 11 WHEREFORE EXHORT ONE ANOTHER, AND BUILD EACH OTHER UP, EVEN AS ALSO YE DO. Translation and Paraphrase 11. Wherefore comfort (and exhort) one another, and each one of...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. COMFORT YOURSELVES, [ alleelous (G240)] - "one another." Here he reverts to consolation, as in 1 Thessalonians 4:1...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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)....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    The modification in the primitive attitude of Christians to the Parousia of Jesus is significant. Instead of all expecting to be alive at that blessed crisis, the inroads of death had now forced men t...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    περὶ τῶν χρόνων καὶ τῶν καιρῶν....

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    CHRISTIANS SHOULD COMFORT AND EDIFY EACH OTHER Paul explained why the Christian should be sure to put on the breastplate of love and faith and the helmet of the hope of salvation. He said that God did...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (6) Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. (6) We must not only watch ourselves, but we are also bound to stir up, and to strengthen and encourage one anoth...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The alertness and vigilance of the Christians:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

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  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

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  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

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  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Bible Study New Testament

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 10:23; 1 Corinthians 14:12; 1 Corinthians 14:29; 1 Corinthians 14:5;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Comfort [π α ρ α κ α λ ε ι τ ε]. Rev. renders exhort; but comfort suits better the general drift of the passage, and corresponds with ch. 4 18. There is some force in Bornemann's suggestion that the t...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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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