1 THESSALONIANS 5:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.”
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing — the paraenesis returns to the communal; mutual exhortation (parakaleo) and edification (oikodomeo) are the ongoing work of the community. The phrase 'just as you are doing' commends their existing practice.
Church Fathers on 1 Thessalonians 5:11
“That, whether we wake or sleep,” he says, “we should live together with Him. Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also you do.” And again, “whether we wake or sleep”; by sleep there he means one thing, and here another. For here, “whether we sleep” signifies the death of the body; that is, fear not dangers; though we should die, we shall live. Do not despair because you are in danger. You have a strong security. He would not have given His Son if…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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