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Selected Verse: 2 Thessalonians 3:15 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 2Th 3:15 |
King James |
Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| admonish him as a brother--not yet excommunicated (compare Lev 19:17). Do not shun him in contemptuous silence, but tell him why he is so avoided (Mat 18:15; Th1 5:14). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother - This shows the true spirit in which discipline is to be administered in the Christian church. We are not to deal with a man as an adversary over whom we are to seek to gain a victory, but as an erring brother - a brother still, though he errs. There was necessity for this caution. There is great danger that when we undertake the work of discipline we shall forget that he who is the subject of it is a brother, and that we shall regard and treat him as an enemy. Such is human nature. We set ourselves in array against him. We cut him off as one who is unworthy to walk with us. We triumph over him, and consider him at once as an enemy of the church, and as having lost all claim to its sympathies. We abandon him to the tender mercies of a cold and unfeeling world, and let him take his course. Perhaps we follow him with anathemas, and hold him up as unworthy the confidence of mankind. Now all this is entirely unlike the method and aim of discipline as the New Testament requires. There all is kind, and gentle, though firm; the offender is a man and a brother still; he is to be followed with tender sympathy and prayer, and the hearts and the arms of the Christian brotherhood are to be open to receive him again when he gives any evidence of repenting. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Admonish (νουθετεῖτε)
See on Act 20:31, and see on Eph 6:4. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Admonish him as a brother - Tell him lovingly of the reason why you shun him. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Count him not as an enemy - Consider him still more an enemy to himself than to you; and admonish him as a brother, though you have ceased to hold religious communion with him. His soul is still of infinite value; labor to get it saved. |
14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.
15 Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
31 Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.