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Therefore comfort one another with these words.
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The Specific Words of Comfort
Commentators stress that Christian comfort isn't a vague feeling but is grounded in the specific truths Paul just shared: the dead in Christ will rise, they will not be disadvantaged, and all believers—living and dead—will be reunited to dwell with the Lord forever. Scholars suggest that repeating "these very words" to one another is the prescribed remedy for grief.
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1 Thessalonians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Wherefore comfort one another. The marginal reading is exhort. The word comfort probably best expresses the meaning. The…
With these words (εν τοις λογοις τουτοις). In these words. They were a comfort to the Thessalonians as they still comfort the peop…
19th Century
Anglican
Comfort one another.—Here is a balm for the “sorrow” of 1 Thessalonians 4:13. Rather, “in these word…
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With this word of assurance, Paul gives a basis for his converts to “encourage [GK 4151] each other.”
16th Century
Protestant
Comfort. He now shows more openly what I have previously stated — that in the faith of the resurrection we have good ground for consolatio…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Wherefore comfort one another with these words . Or doctrines; as that the saints, when they die, do not cease to be…
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Here is comfort for the relations and friends of those who die in the Lord. Grief for the death of friends is lawful; we may weep for our own loss,…
13th Century
Catholic
Previously, Paul aimed to bring the Thessalonians to the practice of self-control instead of sinful desire, and to curtail their idleness. Now he u…
