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For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
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A Thief's Sudden Arrival
Commentators unanimously explain that comparing the Lord's return to a 'thief in the night' is not about His character, but about the manner of His arrival. It will be sudden, unexpected, and at a time no one can predict. This imagery, originally used by Jesus, was a core apostolic teaching to emphasize that all attempts to calculate the date of His return are futile and contrary to scripture.
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1 Thessalonians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For yourselves know perfectly. That is, they had been taught this. There could be no doubt in their minds concerning it.
The da…
Know perfectly (ακριβως οιδατε). Accurately know, not "the times and the seasons," but their own ignorance.
As a th…
19th Century
Anglican
Know perfectly.—Or, accurately. There is something of an oxymoron (see Note on [Refere…
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Baptist
But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so co…
For this reason he could say to the Thessalonians, “You know very well” the features of “the day of the Lord.” Their previous learning on this subj…
16th Century
Protestant
You know perfectly. He places exact knowledge in contrast with an anxious desire for investigation. But what is it that he says the Thessa…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For yourselves know perfectly With great exactness and accuracy, with great clearness and perspicuity, as a certain …
It is needless or useless to ask about the particular time of Christ's coming. Christ did not reveal this to the apostles. There are times and seas…
13th Century
Catholic
In what he had written before, Paul corrected the Thessalonians in matters that needed improvement, and now he begins to instruct them about the fu…
