1 Thessalonians 5:12. The transition from the last paragraph to this is easy. Having exhorted them to comfort one another, he naturally passes on to inculcate the duty of attending to those whose special work it was to instruct and edify them.

To know. ‘That is, to appreciate, not to be unaware of their real work' (Vaughan).

Those who labour among you, and preside over you and admonish you. All three functions belong to the same office. Those who presided over them were the same persons who instructed them: ruling and teaching were the two grand divisions of ecclesiastical labour ' But if not in Thessalonica, in other churches, symptoms soon appeared of a separation of the ruling from the teaching elders. See 1 Timothy 5:17.

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