1 Thessalonians 4:9

But as touching brotherly love,.... Another branch of sanctification; which is distinct from love to God and Christ, though it always accompanies it, and from love to all mankind; and is what is…

But as touching brotherly love - The “peculiar charity and affection which one Christian owes to another.” Doddridge; see the notes on Joh 13:34. Ye need not that I write unto you - That is, “as I…

Touching brotherly love - They were remarkable for this; and though the apostle appears to have had this as a topic on which he intended to write to them, yet, from the account which he received of…

In these words the apostle mentions the great duties,

I. Of brotherly love. This he exhorts them to increase in yet more and more. The exhortation is introduced, not with a compliment, but with a…

But as touching brotherly love ye need not thatI write unto you More exactly, you have no need that one write to you. "Have no need" recurs in ch. 1Th 5:1; comp. ch. 1Th 1:8 and 1Jn 2:27. There…