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Gill's Exposition
Wherefore comfort one another with these words. Or doctrines; as that the saints, when they die, do not cease to be, but are asleep, and asleep in Jesus; that their souls are with him, and their…
Barnes' Notes
Wherefore comfort one another - Margin, “exhort.” The word comfort probably best expresses the meaning. They were to bring these glorious truths and these bright prospects be fore their minds, in…
Adam Clarke
Comfort one another with these words - Strange saying! comfort a man with the information that he is going to appear before the judgment-seat of God! Who can feel comfort from these words? That man…
In these words the apostle comforts the Thessalonians who mourned for the death of their relations and friends that died in the Lord. His design is to dissuade them from excessive grief, or inordinate…
Cambridge Bible
Wherefore comfort one another with these words Lit., in these words, in the revelation just communicated the readers are to find comfort for each other under their recent bereavement, and in all such…
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