Are asleep] better, 'are lying asleep.' The Thessalonians were anxious as to the part which those who had died in the Faith would take in the Second Advent, which was believed to be near at hand. Others] better, 'all the rest,' i.e. the heathen who, even if they believed in some sort of an existence after death, had no hope of immortality.
1 THESSALONIANS 4:13 koimwme,nwn The text is somewhat doubtful, external testimony being divided between koimwme,nwn, which is supported by Alexandrian witnesses (a A B 33 326), and kekoimhme,nwn, su...
Verse 13. _I WOULD NOT HAVE YOU TO BE IGNORANT_] Instead of εχομεν, _have_, θελομεν, _wish_, is the reading of ADEFG, many others, besides the _Arabic, AEthiopic, Armenian_, some of the _Slavonian_, t...
BUT I WOULD NOT HAVE YOU TO BE IGNORANT - I would have you fully informed on the important subject which is here referred to. It is quite probable from this, that some erroneous views prevailed among...
IV. THE SEPARATED WALK AND THE BLESSED HOPE CHAPTER 4 _ 1. The separated walk 1 Thessalonians 4:1)_ 2. The coming of the Lord for His saints 1 Thessalonians 4:13)...
THE CONDITION OF THE DEAD. This paragraph is written to allay a misgiving which had arisen among the Thessalonian Christians that certain of their friends who had died would be deprived of their share...
THE SUMMONS TO PURITY (1 Thessalonians 4:1-8)...
We do not wish you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who are asleep, because we do not wish you to sorrow as the rest of people do because they have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and...
I. Texts read "we". WOULD. App-102. HAVE YOU, &C. See Romans 1:13. CONCERNING. App-104. ASLEEP. falling asleep. App-171. OTHERS. the rest. App-124. Add "also". NO. not, as 1 Thessalonians 4:5....
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
_But I would not have you to be ignorant_ True reading, WE WOULD NOT, consistently with the first person plural ("Paul and Silas and Timothy") in which the Epistle commenced (ch. 1 Thessalonians 1:1)....
§ 8. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. Concerning them that fall asleep Thessalonian faith had its “deficiencies” on the doctrinal as well as the practical side (see note introductory to last section). In rega...
ΘΕΛΟΜΕΝ in all uncials, latt vg; θελω in many minn., syrr cop. ΚΟΙΜΩΜΕΝΩΝ, אAB 67** and other minn., latt vg (_dormientibus_) syrr. κεκοιμημενων is a patent Western and Syrian emendation, conformed t...
ΘΈΛΟΜΕΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΘΈΛΩ (G2309) желать, ΆΓΝΟΕΪ́Ν _praes. act. inf. от_ ΆΓΝΟΈΩ (G50) не знать, быть в неведении. _Inf._ как дополнение к основному гл.: "Мы не хотим, чтобы вы были в неведе...
DISCOURSE: 2202 THE RESURRECTION 1 Thessalonians 4:13. I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For, if w...
_1 THESSALONIANS 4:13_.— The Apostle had intimated, ch. 1 Thessalonians 3:10 that he wanted to make them another visit at Thessalonica, in order _to perfect that which was lacking in their faith._ Per...
TEXT (1 Thessalonians 4:13) 13 BUT WE WOULD NOT HAVE YOU IGNORANT, BRETHREN CONCERNING THEM THAT FALL ASLEEP; THAT YE SORROW NOT, EVEN AS THE REST, WHO HAVE NO HOPE. Translation and Paraphrase 13....
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. The leading topic of Paul's preaching at Thessalonica hav...
THE LORD'S PRESENCE 12 Paul gives us the true motive and incentive of a holy life and a steadfast faith. It springs from the overflow of love to our fellow saints and to all others as well. It looks f...
WHEN JESUS CHRIST COMES 1 THE THESSALONIANS _IAN MACKERVOY_ A word list is at the end. It explains words with a *star by them. CHAPTER 4 HOW YOU OUGHT TO LIVE 4:1-8 V1 Brothers and sisters, y...
BUT. — We pass to the _third_ clearly marked point: the share of the Christian dead in the Coming of Christ. Possibly an association of ideas may have caused St. Paul to join these two subjects, of qu...
CHAPTER 11 THE DEAD IN CHRIST 1 Thessalonians 4:13 (R.V.) THE restlessness of the Thessalonians, which caused some of them to neglect their daily work, was the result of strained expectations of Chr...
περὶ τῶν κοιμωμένων....
δὲ, after οὐ θέλομεν as a single expression. Affection for the living has another side, _viz._, unselfish solicitude for the dead. Since Paul left, some of the Thessalonian Christians had died, and th...
UNITED NOW AND HEREAFTER IN THE LORD 1 Thessalonians 4:9 It is suggested that God Himself is the teacher of love. Others may teach the lower classes in the school of grace, but the highest is reserve...
At this point in his letter the apostle turned to exhortation. Timothy's report concerning the Thessalonians' condition had indicated that they needed some words of kindly warning. The first subject i...
"I DO NOT WANT YOU TO BE IGNORANT" It appears some at Thessalonica thought the blessings of Christ's second coming would only be enjoyed by those who were living at the time of the Savior's return. S...
(9) But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, (10) concerning them (11) which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. (9) The third part of the epistle, which is m...
(13) В¶ But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. (14) For if we believe that Jesus died and rose agai...
There is a special interest in examining the epistles to the Thessalonians, more particularly the first, because, in point of fact, it was the earliest of the letters of the apostles; and as the first...
_THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS*_ ‘But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.’ 1 Thessalonians 4:13 The way...
13_But I would not have you ignorant_. It is not likely that the hope of a resurrection had been torn up among the Thessalonians by profane men, as had taken place at Corinth. For we see how he chasti...
The apostle then turns to the dangers that beset the Thessalonians in consequence of their former habits (and which were still those of the persons that surrounded them), habits in direct contradictio...
BUT I WOULD NOT HAVE YOU TO BE IGNORANT, BRETHREN,.... As they seem to have been, about the state of the pious dead, the rule and measure of mourning for them, the doctrine of the resurrection of the...
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. Ver. 13. _But I would not have, &c._] Ignorance is the moth...
_I would not have you ignorant, brethren_ The apostle had intimated, (1 Thessalonians 3:10,) that he desired to make them another visit at Thessalonica, in order _to perfect that which was lacking in...
ASLEEP; asleep in Jesus, who have died in union with Christ by faith, verse 1 Thessalonians 4:14. OTHERS; the unenlightened heathen, who have no hope of a resurrection and life of blessedness with Ch...
INFORMATION ABOUT THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD....
BUT I WOULD NOT HAVE YOU TO BE IGNORANT, BRETHREN, CONCERNING THEM WHICH ARE ASLEEP, THAT YE SORROW NOT, EVEN AS OTHERS WHICH HAVE NO HOPE....
The end of Chapter 3 has encouraged their abounding love. Here the apostle adds to this the entreaty that they abound in obedience. No amount of love can make up for a disobedient walk, for love and o...
C. The problem about those who had died, 4:13-18 13 BUT I WOULD NOT HAVE YOU TO BE IGNORANT, BRETHREN, CONCERNING THEM WHICH ARE ASLEEP, THAT YE SORROW NOT, EVEN AS OTHERS WHICH HAVE NO HOPE. 14 Fo...
“BUT WE WOULD NOT HAVE YOU IGNORANT, BRETHREN, CONCERNING THEM THAT FALL ASLEEP; THAT YE SORROW NOT, EVEN AS THE REST, WHO HAVE NO HOPE” “We would not have you ignorant”:. common expression that Paul...
13-18 Here is comfort for the relations and friends of those who die in the Lord. Grief for the death of friends is lawful; we may weep for our own loss, though it may be their gain. Christianity doe...
The apostle now proceeds to a new discourse, about moderating of their sorrow for the dead, not for all, but the dead in Christ. He had either observed their sorrow in this kind excessive, while with...
But we would not have you ignorant [This is Paul's habitual formula, used either negatively or positively, with which to start a new topic (Romans 1:13; Romans 11:25; Colossians 2:1;...
Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise...
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‘But we would not have you ignorant, brothers and sisters, concerning those who are falling asleep, that you sorrow not, even as the rest who have no hope.' It is clear that the Thessalonians had gras...
THE COMING OF CHRIST FOR HIS OWN (1 THESSALONIANS 4:13). Paul assures the Thessalonians that those who have died in Christ will not be disadvantaged as against those who will be alive at His coming,...
1 Thessalonians 4:13. WE WOULD NOT HAVE YOU TO BE IGNORANT. ‘A phrase by which St. Paul frequently introduces a new and important topic.' See references. THEM WHICH ARE ASLEEP. Death is called sleep...
_Comfort for the Bereaved concerning the Prospects of the Departed._ Paul had preached to the Thessalonians the doctrine of the Second Coming of Christ, and they had apparently taken up the impression...
WE WOULD NOT HAVE (ου θελομεν). We do not wish.YOU IGNORANT (υμας αγνοειν). Old word, not to know (α privative, γνο-, root of γινωσκω). No advantage in ignorance of itself.CONCERNING THEM THAT FA...
1 Thessalonians 4:13 The Sleep of the Faithful Departed. St. Paul, in the text, speaks of the saints unseen as of those that "sleep in Jesus"; and Christians are wont to call their burial-grounds ce...
1 Thessalonians 4:13 The Apostle now turns to speak of Christian hope. It is a transition to a new and all-important theme the hope of the Christian in regard to the saints at the second coming of the...
1 Thessalonians 4:13. _But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope._ You cannot help sorrowing, for you...
CONTENTS: The model walk of the believer. The hope of Christ's return. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: The design of the Gospel is to teach men not only what they should believe, but also how t...
1 Thessalonians 4:1. _We beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us_ the moral maxims of life and conduct, not only in word but also in writing, _how ye ou...
WE WANT YOU TO KNOW THE TRUTH. What the apostle has said about "a life that pleases God" in the first part of the chapter, likely has something to do with their misunderstanding of Christ's Coming. So...
1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 4:13 Paul answers the Thessalonians’ questions about Christians who die before Jesus returns. ⇐...
1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 4:1 Instruction and Exhortation. Paul gives instructions on pleasing God (1 Thessalonians 4:1), the seco
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Thessalonians 4:13. THEM WHICH ARE ASLEEP.—The R.V. reading changes the perfect participle (“them who have fallen asleep and continue to sleep”) unto the present, “t...
EXPOSITION CONTENTS.—With this chapter the second portion of the Epistle—its practical application-commences. The apostle exhorts and entreats the Thessalonians to make progress in the Christian life,...
Let's turn to first Thessalonians chapter four. Paul the apostle was called of God by the Spirit to go to Macedonia, as he saw in a vision a man from Macedonia saying, "Come over and help us." It was...
1 Corinthians 10:1; 1 Corinthians 12:1; 1 Corinthians 15:18; 1 Corinthians 15:19;...
I would not have you to be ignorant [ο υ θ ε λ ο μ ε ν υ μ α ς α γ ν ο ε ι ν]. The Greek is, we would not, etc. A formula often used by Paul to call special attention to what he is about to say. See R...
Now — Herein the efficacy of Christianity greatly appears, — that it neither takes away nor embitters, but sweetly tempers, that most refined of all affections, our desire of or love to the dead....
Did Paul teach the doctrine of soul-sleep? PROBLEM: Several times the Bible refers to the dead as being asleep. Does this mean that the soul is not conscious between death and resurrection? SOLUTION:...
Our apostle, from this verse to the end of the chapter, exhorts the Thessalonians to moderate their grief and sorrow for their friends who died in Christ, many of which, no doubt, were martyrs for the...