Go home!


Go register!
RECENT ENTRIES
-Making David King
-Structure of Matthew 27-28
-Sermon notes
-Under the sun
-Raising the House of Israel
-Israel of the Afflicted
-Destroy this temple
-Spirit in Matthew
-Spirit of Elijah
-He Calls Elijah
-Eli, Eli
-Love’s power
-The Song’s Imagery, again
-Wisdom
-Faith
-Notes on Matthew 27
-The Song’s Imagery
-Sight and speech
-Structures in Matthew 27
-Solomon’s crown
CATEGORY ARCHIVES
    • LINKS
    - Biblical Horizons
    - Covenant Worldview Institute
    - Theologia
    FEED

    CONTACT

    Comments:
    leithart@leithart.com

    Problems:
    webmaster@leithart.com





    |

    Bible - NT - Thessalonians: Blameless in holiness

    [Print] | [Email]

    Paul alludes to Zechariah 14:5 in 1 Thessalonians 3:13.  Both passages speak of the coming of the Lord with “holy ones.”

    There may also be another allusion. Paul exhorts the Thessalonians to establish their hearts in love and faith, so that they will be “umblameable in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints.”  Earl J. Richard (Sacra Pagina commentary) argues that the rare word “holiness” (hagiosyne) refers not to personal conduct but to a “sphere of holiness.”  It is another way of speaking of the holy presence of God who comes with His holy ones.  That coming establishes a sphere of holiness, and the Thessalonians will be able to stand within that sphere if they “increase and abound in love for one another, and for all men” (3:12).

    Continue reading…

    posted by Peter J. Leithart on Saturday, November 28, 2009 at 6:32 am

    |