1 THESSALONIANS 4:13 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.”
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope — 'asleep' (koimaomai) is the metaphor for death; the Thessalonians wrongly fear their deceased brothers are excluded from the parousia. Paul corrects the ignorance (agnoeo) with eschatological hope (elpis). Grief is not forbidden but is transformed by hope.
Church Fathers on 1 Thessalonians 4:13
These two things, poverty and despondency, distressed them most, which also pertain to all men. See therefore how he remedies them. But their poverty arose from their goods being taken from them. But if he commands those, whose goods had been taken from them for Christ's sake, to support themselves by working, much more then others. For that they were taken away is manifest from his saying, You became partakers with the churches of God. How partakers with them? “And you took…
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