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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO 2 THESSALONIANS 1 This chapter, besides the inscription and salutation, contains a thanksgiving for the flourishing condition in which the graces of the Spirit were in these saints, and consolation for them under their suffering circumstances. The inscription and salutation are in 2 Thessalonians 1:1 and are as usual: the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus,.... [See comments on 1 Thessalonians 1:1].
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
Introduction. (a. d. 52.) 1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: 2 Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. All nations have their special forms of salutation, and this is the Christian’s greeting to his fellow-Christians, “Grace unto you, and peace.” How much there...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians — Paul loved to associate his fellow-workers with himself when writing to his brethren and sisters in Christ. Although he had a superior experience to theirs, he put Silvanus, and Timothy, his own son in the faith, with him as his fellow-evangelists in writing to “the church...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the Lord Jesus Christ:s grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the apostle’s usual salutation when he is writing to a Christian church. When he is writing to a minister, it is “grace, mercy, and peace,” for God’s most prominent servants especially need great mercy on account of their heavy...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Grace be unto you, and peace,.... [See comments on Romans 1:7].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
We are bound to thank God,.... Since all blessings, temporal and spiritual, come from him: and that always: seeing he is ever giving out fresh favours, or continuing former ones; and because those, especially which are of a spiritual nature, always abide, such as faith and love; which the apostle particularly takes notice of, the members of this...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, We do not feel this bond as much as we ought; we often feel ourselves bound to grumble and complain, but I question whether we think enough about being bound to praise God; and if we do not thank God as we ought for ourselves, it is little marvel if we are very slack in the duty of thanking him...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth; so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure: which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth; What a kind of sacred network Christian love makes, intertwisting every believer in Christ with every other believer! “The love of every one of you all toward each...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
So that we ourselves glory in you,.... Or "of you"; for though they were the subject concerning which, yet not the object in which they gloried; the apostle elsewhere advises not to glory in men, but only in the Lord; nor was this his practice contrary to his advice, for he did not boast of these persons with respect to their carnal things; he did...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure: which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, One of the clearest proofs of the judgment to come is to be found in the present sufferings of the saints through persecutions and tribulations;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God,.... That is, according as some think, that God should glorify those that are persecuted, and punish their persecutors: this sense indeed may seem to agree with what follows; but the apostle is speaking not of something future, but of something present; not of what God will do hereafter,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye do suffer: seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; and to you who are troubled rest with us, For us who believe in Jesus there is a long Sabbath yet to come, to be spent with the apostles and the other holy ones around the throne...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Seeing it is a righteous thing with God,.... That which is righteous in itself, is righteous in the sight of God, but it is not always so with men; men may think it a righteous thing that they should be rewarded for persecuting the followers of Christ, supposing they hereby do God good service; but on the contrary, with God, and in his sight and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And to you who are troubled, rest with us,.... This is another branch of the justice of God, in rendering to them who are afflicted and persecuted for righteousness sake, "rest"; a relaxation or rest from persecutions, for a while at least; as the churches of Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had, from that persecution raised at the death of Stephen,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, This rest, then, it seems, is to be given to us mainly when Christ shall come with his mighty angels.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; when he shall come to be glorified in his...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
In flaming fire,.... Which may either refer to Christ, who will be revealed from heaven in such a manner; and whose coming will be as the lightning, not only sudden, but glorious, illustrious, and visible; he will be seen and easily discerned; there will be such a light and flaming fire about him, which, as it will serve to make him visible, will...