1 THESSALONIANS 5:3 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.”
While people are saying, 'There is peace and security,' then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape — the false confidence ('peace and security') of those outside Christ masks reality; destruction (olethros) is imminent. 'As labor pains' (hōsper ōdin) suggests intensifying, inescapable judgment. The saved and unsaved face radically different futures.
Church Fathers on 1 Thessalonians 5:3
Here he has glanced at something which he has also said in his second Epistle. For since they indeed were in affliction, but they that warred on them at ease and in luxury, and then while he comforted them in their present sufferings by this mention of the Resurrection, the others insulted them with arguments taken from their forefathers, and said, When will it happen?— which the Prophets also said, “Woe unto them that say, Let him make speed, let God hasten his work, that we…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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