Geneva Study Bible Commentary
1 Thessalonians 5:9
(4) For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
(4) He urges us forward by setting a most certain hope of victory before us.
(4) For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
(4) He urges us forward by setting a most certain hope of victory before us.
Verse 9. _FOR GOD HATH NOT APPOINTED US TO WRATH_] So then it appears that _some_ were _appointed to wrath_, εις οργην, _to_ _punishment_; on this subject there can be no dispute. But _who_ are they?...
FOR GOD HATH NOT APPOINTED US TO WRATH - This is designed as an encouragement to effort to secure our salvation. The wish of God is to save us, and therefore we should watch and be sober; we should ta...
V. THE DAY OF THE LORD AND EXHORTATIONS CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The day of the Lord 1 Thessalonians 5:1)_ 2. Exhortations 1 Thessalonians 5:12) 3. Conclusions 1 Thes
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...
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...
LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT (1 Thessalonians 5:1-11)...
FOR. Because. Greek. _hoti._ GOD. App-98. HATH. Omit. TO. App-104. WRATH. Compare 1 Thessalonians 1:10. OBTAIN. obtaining. Greek. _peripoiesis._ See Ephesians 1:14. LORD. App-98. JESUS CHRIST. A...
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...
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
_For God hath not appointed us to wrath_ In the strict order of the words, APPOINTED US NOT UNTO WRATH, BUT (to something very different) UNTO THE OBTAINING OF SALVATION THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST....
§ 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...
ο θεος ημας (in this order) B 37, 116; similarly in 1 Thessalonians 2:16 B distinguishes itself by the order εφθακεν η οργη επʼ αυτους. B aeth omit ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ: the general probability of the insertion of...
ΈΘΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. от_ ΤΊΘΗΜΙ (G5087) помещать, предназначать (Best; МТ, 55; BD, 165). ΌΡΓ (G3709) гнев, ярость, ΠΕΡΙΠΟΊΗΣΙΣ (G4047) достижение, приобретение (Morris; Moore), ΔΙΆ (G1223) с _gen....
FOR GOD HATH NOT APPOINTED US TO WRATH,— The primary design of God in sending his Son into this world, was _not to condemn the world,_ but to _save it._ He did not reveal the gospel that men might sin...
TEXT (1 Thessalonians 5:9-10) 9 FOR GOD APPOINTED US NOT UNTO WRATH, BUT UNTO THE OBTAINING OF SALVATION THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, 10 WHO DIED FOR US, THAT, WHETHER WE WAKE OR SLEEP, WE SHOULD L...
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, FOR - the ground of our "hope" (1 Thessalonians 5:8). APPOINTED US, [ etheto (G5087)] - 'set' ...
THE LORD'S PRESENCE THOSE DROWSING THOSE DROWSING 4 The day of the Lord with its terrors and destruction is not for us. The cry of "peace and security" should not lull us to sleep. We should be on t...
TO OBTAIN SALVATION] (Philippians 2:12) or, perhaps, 'for the adoption which consists in salvation': cp. 2 Thessalonians 2:14....
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)....
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 5 WHEN THE *LORD WILL COME 5:1-11 V1 Now, brothers and s...
FOR. — This is not the reason for being watchful, but for being hopeful of salvation. The image of the soldier is abandoned’ as suddenly as it was introduced. HATH NOT APPOINTED. — Rather, _did not ap...
CHAPTER 12 THE DAY OF THE LORD 1 Thessalonians 5:1 (R.V.) THE last verses of the fourth chapter perfect that which is lacking, on one side, in the faith of the Thessalonians. The Apostle addresses h...
The mention of the future σωτηρία starts Paul off, for a moment, on what it involves (1 Thessalonians 5:9-10)....
περὶ τῶν χρόνων καὶ τῶν καιρῶν....
READY FOR “THE DAY OF THE LORD” 1 Thessalonians 5:1 To the Apostle “the day of the Lord” was near. He expected it in his lifetime, and if we remember that the Lord's words with reference to it were...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
9_For God hath not appointed us_. As he has spoken of the _hope of salvation, _he follows out that department, and says that God has appointed us to this — that we _may obtain salvation through Christ...
The Lord's coming again into this world assumes therefore a very different character from that of a vague object of hope to a believer as a period of glory. In Chapter 5 the apostle speaks of it, but...
FOR GOD HATH NOT APPOINTED US TO WRATH,.... To destruction and ruin, the effect of wrath; though there are some that are vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction, of old ordained to condemnation, and...
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Ver. 9. _God hath not appointed us_] As he hath all drunken beasts,1 Corinthians 4:10. Yet, all those dry dru...
_For they that sleep, sleep in the night_, &c. Night is the time for sleep, and they that are guilty of drunkenness, gluttony, and other vices of intemperance, generally choose to hide them under the...
TO OBTAIN SALVATION; this was evident from their having believed in Christ. Those who believe in Christ and obey his commands show that they are elected to eternal life and are heirs of heaven....
The alertness and vigilance of the Christians:...
FOR GOD HATH NOT APPOINTED US TO WRATH, BUT TO OBTAIN SALVATION BY OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST,...
In contrast to the new revelation Paul gives at the end of ch. 4, he now tells them in ch. 5 that "of the times and seasons" there was no need to write, for this was a matter of which they were well a...
D. The certainty of Christ's coming, 5:1-11 1 BUT OF THE TIMES AND THE SEASONS, BRETHREN, YE HAVE NO NEED THAT I WRITE UNTO YOU. 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh a...
“FOR GOD APPOINTED US NOT INTO WRATH, BUT UNTO THE OBTAINING OF SALVATION THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST” “For God appointed us not into wrath”: The word "appointed" does not mean that God has "predes...
6-11 Most of mankind do not consider the things of another world at all, because they are asleep; or they do not consider them aright, because they sleep and dream. Our moderation as to all earthly t...
FOR GOD HATH NOT APPOINTED US TO WRATH, BUT TO OBTAIN SALVATION: some expositors make these words an argument to all the duties of holiness mentioned both in this and the foregoing Chapter s; and it i...
For God appointed us not unto wrath, but unto the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,...
1 Thessalonians 5:9 For G3754 God G2316 did G5087 not G3756 appoint G5087 (G5639) us G2248 to G1519 wra
‘For God appointed us not to wrath but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.' Here Paul tells us that God has ‘appointed' His own to the obtaining of salvation through Jesus Chr...
1 Thessalonians 5:9. FOR. Paul shows the reasonableness of this hope. GOD HATH NOT APPOINTED US TO WRATH. The truest parallel to this expression is that of Peter (1 Peter 2:8), where he speaks of the...
_Exhortation to Sobriety and Watchfulness, founded in the Suddenness of the Lord's Coming, and on their Character as Children of Light._ Having spoken so definitely of the Lord's coming, Paul anticipa...
BUT UNTO THE OBTAINING OF SALVATION THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST (αλλα εις περιποιησιν σωτηριας δια του Κυριου ημων Ιησου Χριστου). The difficult word here is περιποιησιν which may be passive, God'...
SALVATION (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16). _...
1 Thessalonians 5:9 God's Appointment concerning Man. I. Note, first, the persons in whose favour God's appointment is made. They are believers in Jesus. Salvation is limited to faith in Christianit...
1 Thessalonians 5:9 I. This passage, 1 Thessalonians 5:9, has its interest and value as showing us that the earliest and the latest of the Pauline Epistles are all at one in regard to the central doct...
1 Thessalonians 5:1. _But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye 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._ It...
CONTENTS: The model walk for the believer. The day of Jehovah. Exhortations to believers. CHARACTERS: Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: Let Christians live like men who are awake, living in cons...
1 Thessalonians 5:1. _Of the times and seaso_n _s, ye have no need that I write to you._ Paul as a prophet might have said much concerning the dispensations of providence which should attend the churc...
TO SUFFER HIS WRATH. God's act in Jesus Christ offers us a way to escape from the wrath which is to come! (_See_ Revelation 7:14-17.)...
_But of the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you--Perhaps because the apostle had told them, or because the sudden coming of Christ was a universal belief._ So in modern...
_For God hath not appointed us unto wrath _ GOD’S EVERLASTING PURPOSE I. God’s purpose is-- 1. That we should not be lost. We all deserve wrath. All have sinned, and every sin the Divine indignatio...
1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 5:9 FOR connects this verse with either vv. 1 Thessalonians 5:6 in general or with the specific instruction
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Thessalonians 5:1. TIMES AND SEASONS.—The one is the even, continuous flow of the river, the other is the cataract. Seasons we may represent as epochs. Our Lord in...
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...
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...
1 Peter 2:10; 1 Peter 2:8; 1 Thessalonians 1:10; 1 Thessalonians 3:3;...
For [ο τ ι]. Special emphasis is laid on the hope of salvation. The exhortation to put it on is enforced by the fact that God's appointment is to salvation and not to wrath. To obtain [ε ι ς π ε ρ ι π...
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...
God hath not appointed us to wrath — As he hath the obstinately impenitent....
Observe here, 1. reason enforcing the apostle's exhortation to holiness of life, FOR, or because GOD HAS NOT APPOINTED US TO WRATH, BUT TO OBTAIN SALVATION BY JESUS CHRIST. Note here, 1. What. Christ...