Christ; in him, aa the ec,urce of authority; the <leeign or obiect of thus noting him. "ln hie Name." That with quietness. In Ae if the apoetle had eaid. " Bring the contra.et to being busybodies, with calmness force of Christian opinion to bear npon him. of spirit, freedom from excitement. They Show your moral indignation by exduding work, and eat their own bread ; not the him from the Ohriatian community." The bread of others, but their own, for which noting or excommunicating was more of they ho.ve laboured and which they have the nature of a correction 1.!ian of e. punish- ~arned. They would thus be independent ment, and ite deeign was the reclaiming of of' the liberality and generosity of others. the offender. (For eimile.r exhorte.tione, eee 1 These. iv. Ver. 15.-Yet; or aa it is in the original, 11: Eph. iv. ~8.) and; e. purely connective particle. Count Ver. 13.-Bnt ye, brethren; contrasted him not as an enemy; e.n entire outcast. with those whowe.lk disorderly, ye who ho.ve But admonieh him as a brother; a Chris- not neglected your worldly employments. tian brother. No hostile feeling was to be Be not weary in well-doing; or, as it is in united with thie avoidance of intercouree the margin, faint not in well-doing ; " loee not with the erring, but rather loving admo- heart in well-doing" (Ellicott). The phrase nition, ine.emucb e.e he was still a Christian he.a been differi-ntly interpreted. Thue brother. Chryeostom explains it that indolent pereon.s, Ver. 16.-Now the Lord of peaoe himself. however justly they may be condemned, mUBt In 1 Thees. v. 23 it ia " the God of peace" not be eu1fered to perieh from want-ii. mean- who ia invoked: "And the very God of ing opposed to the context. Ce.lvin rendere peace eanctify you wholly." Here it is it that, although there are many that are Chriet who ia named ae" the Lord of peace." undeserving and abuse our liberality, we He ia the Lord of peace, a.e the Author, the must not on thie account leave oft' helping Procurer. the Mediator of peace. Peace ia thoee who need our aid: let not the elotl1 of here to be taken in its widest eenee-pea.ce thoee disorderly pereons hinder or damp with God, complete salvation. Give yon your charity-a moet needful admonition, peaoe always by all means. Some mann- but it doee not exhaust all that ie meant by scripte read "in every place." but the read- the precept. Othere reetrict it to diligence ing in om version is best atteeted-" always in our earthly dutiee : though others be by all means ; " "at all times a.nd in every idle, working not at e.11, let not their example way; " whether it be outward or in !Verd, for lead you aetray; be not ye weary in doing time or for eternity. The apoetle could what is right and proper (Liinemann). But deeire uo higher blessing for hie con verta. the phrase ie to be underetood in ite genere.l The. Lord be with yon all. eense, denoting holy and uprtght oonduot Ver. 17.-The salutation of Paul with mine (see Gal. vi. 9, where the same exhortation own hand. The apostle usually dictated is given). hie Epietlee to e.u amanuensis, but wrote Ver. 14.-And if any man obey not our the concluding worde with his own hand. word by this Epistle, note that man. Some Thus Tertius was his amanuensis when he attach the worde, " by thie Epistle," to" note wrote the Epietle to the Romans (Rom. xvi. that me.n," and render the clauee, " Note that 22). Probably the Epistle to the Galatians man by an epistle to me." Thue Oe.lvin: is l\ll exception ( Ge.I. vi. 11 ), e.nd also the " He deeiree that they may be reported to Epietle to Philemon (Philem. 19). The ea.me him, that he may reprove them by his authentication expreesed in the ee.me words au•.hority." So also in the margin of our ia found in the Firet Epistle to the Corin- A.V.: "Signify that WSD by e.n epistle." thiane (1 Cor. xvi. 21), tl.Ild in the Epistle to But the presence of the article denoting a the Colossinns (Col. iv. 18). Whiob; refer- definite Epistle, " this Epietle," and the ring, not to the salutation, but te the whole order of the words in the Greek, are againet clause; which circumstance. Is the token; this interpretation. Others render the clause, the mark of authentication. Of every Epistle. "Note that man by thie Epistle:" point out Suoh authentication was especie.lly necessary to him the injunctions and the wnrnings in the oase of the Thessaloniane, as it would which are oontained in it againsteuch a line of eeem that a forged epistle had been oircu- oouduct: but suoh a meaning is too artificial. lated among them ( eh. ii. 2). Some restrict U ia better, therefore, to attach the words, the worde to the Epistlee which the apostle "by this Epietle," to "our word," u in the would afterwards write to the Thessalonie.ns A.V. : " If any mon obey not our word by (Liineme.nn); but they are rather to be under- this Epietle." "Nottl that man:" th,it is, eet stood of a caution which the opostle prao- a m11.rk upon him, note hiin for the eake of tised, or wae to pmotise, in all his Epistlee. avoidance, excommunicate him fro1n yt>'ll' Some refer the token to the words, " 'fhe society. And have no oompany with him. salutation of Paul with mine own h,wd," Exclude him from your fellowehip meetings, and although these words ure only found in your love-feasts. That he may be ashamed; two other Epilltlee, yet it ia a.sserted that th11 )' U. 'l'HEBSA.LONIA NS. 66 THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE THESSALONIANS. [cu. w. 1-1B.
other Epistles were otherwise enfllciently o.uthentieated. But it appeRl'I! better to un- I benediotion is found at the olose of all Paul's Epistles (see l These. v. 28). del'l!'8nd by the ealutation the benediotion Ver. 18.-The graoe of ou Lord J'uu whioh follows; ud a similar se.lntation or Chriat be with you all.