EXHORTATIONS TO CHASTITY; BROTHERLY LOVE; QUIET INDUSTRY; ABSTINENCE FROM UNDUE SORROW FOR DEPARTED FRIENDS, FOR AT CHRIST'S COMING ALL HIS SAINTS SHALL BE GLORIFIED. (1Th. 4:1-18)
Furthermore--Greek, "As to what remains." Generally used towards the close of his Epistles (Eph 6:10; Phi 4:8).
then--with a view to the love and holiness (Th1 3:12-13) which we have just prayed for in your behalf, we now give you exhortation.
beseech--"ask" as if it were a personal favor.
by, &c.--rather as Greek, "IN the Lord Jesus"; in communion with the Lord Jesus, as Christian ministers dealing with Christian people [EDMUNDS].
as ye . . . received--when we were with you (Th1 2:13).
how--Greek, the "how," that is, the manner.
walk and . . . please God--that is, "and so please God," namely, by your walk; in contrast to the Jews who "please not God" (Th1 2:15). The oldest manuscripts add a clause here, "even as also ye do walk" (compare Th1 4:10; Th1 5:11). These words, which he was able to say of them with truth, conciliate a favorable hearing for the precepts which follow. Also the expression, "abound more and more," implies that there had gone before a recognition of their already in some measure walking so.
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