4. πεποίθαμενδέκτλ.] The assurance that it is the Lord Who is protecting the Thessalonians gives the Apostles a corresponding confidence that the Thessalonians themselves will faithfully fulfil their part. Chrys.: δεῖμὲνγὰρτὸπᾶνἐπʼ αὐτὸνῥίπτειν, ἀλλʼ ἐνεργοῦνταςκαὶαὐτούς, τοῖςπόνοιςἐμβεβηκόταςκαὶτοῖςἀγῶσι. For ἐνκυρίῳ (see 1 Thessalonians 4:1), as the ground with correspondingly new resources in which all St Paul’ s hopes and desires are centred, cf. Galatians 5:10, Ephesians 4:17, Philippians 2:19; Philippians 2:24, and for ἐφʼ ὑμᾶς, instead of the class, dat., as marking the direction of the confidence displayed cf. Matthew 27:43, 2 Corinthians 2:3, Psalms 124. (125.) 1. ὅτιἃπαραγγέλλομενκτλ.] For a similar use of ὅτι introducing the objective statement of the Apostle’ s confidence cf. Philippians 2:24. Under ἃπαραγγέλλομεν must be understood not such injunctions as had already been given (e.g. 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12), but rather, as the resumption of the same verb in v. 6 proves, those that immediately follow, and which, on account of their hardness, are further prefaced by a short ejaculatory prayer. For παραγγέλλω see 1 Thessalonians 4:11 note, and as bringing out the idea of transmission contained in the word cf. P.Grenf. 1:40, 6 f. (2./b.c.) ἔκρινονγράψαισοιὅπωςεἰδὼςπαραγγείληςκαὶτ[οῖς] ἄλλοιςἱερεῦσι.