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Κύριος “ κατευθύναι ὑμῶν τὰς καρδίας εἰς τὴν " ἀγάπην τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ
6. "Παραγγέλλομεν δὲ ὑμῖν, ἀδελφοί, "ἐν ὀνόματι τοῦ Κυρίου
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5 Cf. Ignat. ad Polyk. @ 5 ν
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μιμεῖσθαι ἡμᾶς - ὅτι οὐκ ἠτακτήσαμεν
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ee IY: πρὸς ὑμᾶς, τοῦτο παρηγγέλλομεν ὑμῖν, ὅτι “ εἴ τις οὐ θέλει ἐργάζ- loafer” (Rutherford). w Cf. 1. i. 6, ii. 14, and on τ Cor. iv. 16. ΧῚ πι, πι Ὁ. Ἐς y Οἵ αι, 9, 2 Cor. xi. 27, Herm. Sim. v. 6, 2, etc., “toiling and moiling ” (Rutherford). z I. ii. 9 (with a different motive). a See on τ Cor. ix. 3-18, and 2 Cor. i. 24. b See on Phil. iii. 17. ο Did.
Kil. 3:
1 Read παρελαβετε, with BG, 43, 73, 80, 6, goth., syr.p, arm., etc. (so Lach., Tr., WH, Bj., Weiss), or παρελαβοσαν (ελαβοσαν D*) with ΜΑ, d, e, 17, etc. (Ti., Al., Zim., Lgft., Wohl., Findlay [Tr., WH, Lach., all in marg.}).
quires, cf. Ignat. ad. Rom., last words) correspond to the double experience of love and hope in ii. 16. It is by the sense of God’s love alone, not by any mere acquiescence in His will or stoical endurance of it, that the patience and courage of the Christian are sustained. Cf. Ep. Arist., 195, ἐπὶ τῶν καλλίστων πράξεων οὐκ αὐτοὶ κατευθύνομεν τὰ βουλευθέντα - θεὸς δὲ τελειοῖ τὰ πάντων. Connect with ver. 3 and cf. Mrs. Brown- ing’s line, “1 waited with patience, which means almost power ”’.
Vy. 6-16. Injunctions upon church- life and order. Ver. 6. How necessary it was to pro-
mote ὑπομονή with its attendant virtues of diligence and order at Thessalonica, is evident from the authoritative (ἐν év. τ. Κυρίου) tone and the crisp detail of the following paragraph. Παραγγ.. like ἀτά- κτως, has a military tinge (cf. on I. iv. 2, and Dante’s Paradiso, xii. 37-45). στελλ., for his own sake (ver. 14), as well as for yours: a service as well as a Ῥτεσαι- tion. The collective action of his fellow- Christians, besides preserving (1 Cor. v. 6) themselves from infection—and no- thing is so infectious as an insubordinate, indolent, interfering spirit — will bring home to him a sense of his fault. Light- foot aptly cites the παράγγελμα of Ger- manicus to his mutinous troops: “ dis- cedite a contactu, ac diuidite turbidos: id stabile ad paenitentiam, id fidei uinculymn erit”’ (Tacit. Annal., i. 43).—The ἄτακτοι of 6-12 are excitable members who “ break
the ranks ἡ by stopping work in view of the near advent, and thus not only dis- organise social life but burden the church with their maintenance. The apostles had not been idle or hare-brained en- thusiasts, and their example of an orderly, self-supporting life is held up as a pattern. Insubordination of this kind is a breach of the apostolic standard of the Christian life, and Paul deals sharply with the first symptoms of it. He will not listen to any pious pleas for this kind of conduct.
Ver. 8. Paul’s practice of a trade and emphasis upon the moral discipline of work are quite in keeping with the best Jewish traditions of the period. Compare e.g., the saying of Gamaliel 11. (Kiddusch. i. 11): ‘‘He who possesses a trade is like a fenced vineyard, into which no cattle can enter, etc.’”-—8wpedv = ‘ for nothing, gratis”.
Ver. 9. The apostles had the right to be maintained by the church, but in this case they had refused to avail themselves of it. The Thessalonians are not to mis- construe their action.