Verse 6
6. The verbs go and beyond, here, know, 1 Thessalonians 4:4, and abstain, 1 Thessalonians 4:3, are three co-ordinates, all unfolding the branches of sanctification of 1 Thessalonians 4:3. This third branch implies purity from business frauds.
Go beyond Overrun, or overreach his brother. That is, his brother Christian: but Lunemann well remarks, that St. Paul applies the precept to the treatment of Christians, not because he would not include all other men, but the Christian circle is what he has in his present view.
In any Rather, the.
Matter The business matter at any time in hand. See Winer’s New Testament Grammar on the phrase. We prefer, with Lunemann, against Alford, to interpret this verse of business fraud, rather than overreaching, etc., in sexual matters, because the Greek words lie in the former line of thought; because it supposes a less arbitrary complication of iniquity than the other; and because, in a community so full of commercial greed as well as license as Thessalonica, we can hardly suppose that St. Paul’s reproof would be confined to the last alone.
Avenger Punisher of all such as are guilty of fornication and fraud.
Forewarned The fore, says Lunemann, means before the execution of the judgment; the past tense warned places the utterance of the warning at St. Paul’s first visit.
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