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Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

III1 Thessalonians 4:13 to 1 Thessalonians 5:11Instruction and Exhortation in regard to the Coming of the Lord1 Thessalonians 4:13-181. They who have fallen asleep will rise again, and so at the Lord’s Advent will suffer no loss13But I would [we would]43 not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep [those who are falling asleep],44 that ye sorrows45 not, even as others [the rest also]46 which [who] have no hope. 14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - 1 Thessalonians 4:9-18

1 Thessalonians SMALL DUTIES AND THE GREAT HOPE 1Th_4:9-18 . ‘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 as a thief in the night.’-- 1Th_5:1-2 . This letter was written immediately on the arrival of Silas and Timothy in Corinth 1Th_3:6 , ‘even now’, and is all flushed with the gladness of relieved anxiety, and throbs with love. It gains in pathetic interest when we remember that,... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - 1 Thessalonians 4:9-18

United Now and Hereafter in the Lord 1 Thessalonians 4:9-18 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 reserved for the Supreme Teacher. Note that recurring more and more , 1 Thessalonians 3:12 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:1 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:10 . The distribution of goods in the early Church may have led to abuses, which the injunctions here given were intended to rectify. It is well to bring up every... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - 1 Thessalonians 4:1-18

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 is personal purity. Their life was lived in a city characterized by great moral looseness. The condition of the unregenerate Gentiles is revealed in the arresting phrase which describes them as living "in the passion of lust," and declares that the reason was that "they know not God." Hence the... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - 1 Thessalonians 4:13

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 in which Saints’ days appeal to different individuals must depend upon individual disposition. But however we regard the ordinary Saints’ day, there is surely one festival that must appeal to any one who thinks at all, and that is the festival of All Saints. I. The communion of Saints.—All Saints’ Day... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Thessalonians 4:13

‘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 grasped the idea that Jesus Christ was imminently returning and were in expectation that it would be very soon. Thus when some died before that glorious event took place they were concerned lest that meant that those dying would lose out in some way. In view of the parallel they probably thought that... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

The Coming of Christ for His Own (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 ). 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, and describes what will happen when Christ comes for His own. read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

1 Thessalonians 4:13-Job : . 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 in the glory of the promised Parousia. Paul dispels the doubt by asserting that the dead would be raised at the Parousia, and so would be at no disadvantage compared with the living. Cf. 1 Corinthians 1:5 *. 1 Thessalonians 4:13 . no hope: the hopelessness of the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Thessalonians 4:13

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 them; or else by Timothy, or some other way, he had heard of it. Wherein observe in general, he doth not condemn their sorrow, but the excess of it. Grace destroys not nature, but regulates it; nor reason, but rectifies it; nor takes away the affections, but moderates them; doth not make us Stoics,... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES1 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, “them that fall asleep,” as they drop off one after another. See on the expression our Lord’s beautiful words, Luke 8:52; John 11:11 f.MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—1 Thessalonians 4:13-14Sorrow for the Dead.The Thessalonians who cherished a vivid expectation of the near approach of the second... read more

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