may even denote good angels.1 Ex. xii. 23 ; 2 Sam. xxiv. 16. awtfov, the face) This face will be intolerable to them ; they shall not see it, but they shall be made to feel it. Face and glory are generally parallel. — /V^iW, of His might) Lay aside your fierceness (haughty confidence of ' might') ye wicked men !
10. 'Ei/, in) Saints and believers shall not only behold Him, but by them the admirable glory of Christ will put itself forth in its fulness. See the following verses. — •«//&/£, the saints) The
lention of glory, and the saints, is sweetly joined, as is also the mtion of admiration (Christ coming " to be admired"), and,
ilievers (" them that believe"). — iraai, all) This word, not added the saints, but to them that believe, intimates, that the term believers [u them that believe"] has a somewhat wider significa tion than saints. See Acts xx. 32, note. So all, Phil. i. 9,2 note. ( Saints' are those of the circumcision ; < believers' are
icy of the Gentiles, among whom were also the Thessalonians [who, when the testimony of the Apostles had reached also them, received it with praise-worthy firmness of mind. — Y. g.]. Comp. the two expressions3 standing in antithesis to these, ver. 8, note. — or/, because) The motive of 6 admiration' [which shall prompt
lem to " admire Christ"] will be, that the testimony of the Apostles concerning Christ, having obtained faith among the Thessalonians, proves to be what it professed [stands forth un shaken] in that day, on which truth alone stands firm. Comp. Phil. ii. 16 ; 1 Thess. ii. 19. — eviarevOq) p&O, warty stood forth as faithful [was proved to be trustworthy and stedfast], and as such was received [credited] by you, upon whom it (the testimony) had come. — i<f upas \among you, i.e.'] even to you) coming as far as to you, in the wrest. — IM 7r\) construe with
1 "He cast upon them the fierceness of His anger — by sending evil angels among them." LXX. S/ dyythtuv Trovripuv. — ED.
2 "I pray that your love may abound — in knowledge and in adjudgment:" where the all is prefixed before ' judgment ' as being the more general term ; but not before knowledge as being more special and limited. So here, all before " them that believe," but not before the more restricted term, " the saints." — ED.
3 Viz. rots ^>j tiloai ®tov, " them that know not God," namely, Gentiles ; and roi> ^53 V7ra,x.ovovaw, u them that obey not, namely, the Jews who re fused to believe, though the Gospel was preached to them. — ED.