6—9.
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, να, ον > ae A a a , ὁ νιαν τοῦ ULOU αὐτοῦ Ιησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ Κυρίου ημών.
13; Heb. x. 23, xi. τα; Deut. vii. ϱ; Isa. xlix. 7.
I Pet. i 15, ii. 9, v. 10; 2 Pet. i. 3. fii. 14.
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Cor. 1. 18; 1 Th.v. 24; 2 Th. Π1.3; 2 Tim. ii. b Ver. 26, vii. 15 ff.; 10 times besides in P.;
αχ. 16; 2 Cor. vi. 14£; Ph. iii. 10; 1 Jo. i. 3; of. Heb. it 14,
1B om. ἄριστον, bracketed by W.H. as doubtful ; cf. 2 Cor. i. 14.
eagerly awaited (or eagerly awaiting, as you did) the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ”. The vb. is one of P.’s charac- teristic intensive compounds (see parls.). The anarthrous pr. ptp. implies a con- tinuous state conditioning that of the foregoing clause: the unstinted plenty of Divine gifts continued while the re- cipients fixed their thought upon the day of Christ; xv. 12, 33 f. show that this expectation had been in many instances relaxed. Rom. viii. and Col. iii. (also 1 John ii. 28-iii. 3) illustrate the bearing of faith in the παρουσία on Christian eharacter; cf. Matt. xxv., Luke xii. 32 Π., etc. It is an ἀποκάλυψις, an “ un- veiling” of Christ that the Cor. looked for; since although they are “in Christ,” still he is hidden (Col. iii. 3 f.); His presence is a mystery (Col. i. 27, Eph. v. 32). “Παρουσία denotes the fact of Christ’s (future) presence, ἐπιφάνεια its visibility” and splendour, “ ἀποκάλυψις its inner meaning” (Ed.); φανέρωσις (it might be added: Col. iii. 4) its open ‘display. The Cor. were richly blessed with present pood, while expecting a good far exceeding it: “a tacit warning against fancied satisfaction in the pre- sent’? (Gd.: cf. iv. 8).
Ver. 8. ὃς καὶ βεβαιώσει ὑμᾶς echoes ἐβεβαιώθη (6); cf. the thanksgiving of Phil. i. 6. ἕως τέλους (see paris.) points to a consummation, not a mere termination of the present order; cf. Rom. vi. 21 f. ἀνεγκλήτους, ‘“unimpeached,” synony- mous with ἀμέμπτους (unblamed), but judicial in significance,—in view of the μέρα τοῦ Κυρίου: “free from charge when the day of the Lord shall come’’; cf. Rom. viil. 33, τίς ἐγκαλέσει;- ὃς refers to the foregoing κύριος |. X., not to the distant Θεὸς of νετ. 4; the Saviour “‘ who will make sure’’ the innocence of the Cor. on that day is the Judge who will pronounce upon it (cf. Col. i. 22, Eph. v. 27, where Christ is to “present” the Church “ unblemished and unimpeached ” before Himself): He will then confirm them and vindicate their character, as they have confirmed the testimony about Him (cf. Luke ix. 26). P. does not say the Cor. are ἀνέγκλητοι now; he hopes
that they will prove so then. ‘The day of our Lord Jesus Christ” (cf. note on iii. 13) is the O.T. “day of Jehovah” (LXX, τ. Κυρίου), translated into the “day of Christ,” since God has revealed His purpose to “judge through Jesus Christ’? (Rom. ii. 16, Acts xvii. 31).--- ἐν τ. ἡμέρᾳ-- ἐν τ. παρουσίᾳ τ. κυρ. Ἰ. Χ. (1 Thess. v. 23, etc.), with the added connotation of judgment, to which the ἀποκάλυψις of ver. 7 leads up: for this connexion of thought, see Rom. ii. 5, 2 Thess. i. 7 ff. P. does not say “His day,” though ὅς recalls 6 κύρ. Ἰ. X.: Christ’s name is repeated ten times in the first ten vv.—six times, as here, in full style—with sustained solemnity of emphasis (cf. the repetition of ‘“‘God” in 20-29); “Ῥ. thus prepares for his exhortations these Cor., who were dis- posed to treat Christianity as a matter of human choice and personal liking, under the sense that in a Christian Church Christ is the one thing and everything ”’ Hf.).