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Selected Verse: 1 Thessalonians 4:2 - Strong Concordance

Verse	Translation	Text
1Th 4:2	Strong Concordance	For [1063] ye know [1492] what [5101] commandments [3852] we gave [1325] you [5213] by [1223] the Lord [2962] Jesus [2424].
	King James	For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
by the Lord Jesus--by His authority and direction, not by our own. He uses the strong term, "commandments," in writing to this Church not long founded, knowing that they would take it in a right spirit, and feeling it desirable that they should understand he spake with divine authority. He seldom uses the term in writing subsequently, when his authority was established, to other churches. Co1 7:10; Co1 11:17; and Ti1 1:5 (Th1 4:18, where the subject accounts for the strong expression) are the exceptions. "The Lord" marks His paramount authority, requiring implicit obedience.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

by the Lord Jesus--by His authority and direction, not by our own. He uses the strong term, "commandments," in writing to this Church not long founded, knowing that they would take it in a right spirit, and feeling it desirable that they should understand he spake with divine authority. He seldom uses the term in writing subsequently, when his authority was established, to other churches. Co1 7:10; Co1 11:17; and Ti1 1:5 (Th1 4:18, where the subject accounts for the strong expression) are the exceptions. "The Lord" marks His paramount authority, requiring implicit obedience.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
For ye know what commandments - It was but a short time since Paul was with them, and they could not but recollect the rules of living which he had laid down. By the Lord Jesus - By the authority of the Lord Jesus. Some of those rules, or commandments, the apostle refers to, probably, in the following verses.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

For ye know what commandments - It was but a short time since Paul was with them, and they could not but recollect the rules of living which he had laid down.

By the Lord Jesus - By the authority of the Lord Jesus. Some of those rules, or commandments, the apostle refers to, probably, in the following verses.

Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886]
Commandments (παραγγελίας) Better, charges. Only four times in N.T. olxx. The verb παραγγέλλειν to command or charge is frequent, and is often used in Class of military orders. See Xen. Cyr. ii., 4, 2; Hdt. iii., 25.

Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886]

Commandments (παραγγελίας)

Better, charges. Only four times in N.T. olxx. The verb παραγγέλλειν to command or charge is frequent, and is often used in Class of military orders. See Xen. Cyr. ii., 4, 2; Hdt. iii., 25.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
Ye know what commandments we gave you - This refers to his instructions while he was among them; and to instructions on particular subjects, which he does not recapitulate, but only hints at.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826

Ye know what commandments we gave you - This refers to his instructions while he was among them; and to instructions on particular subjects, which he does not recapitulate, but only hints at.

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