1 Thessalonians 5:8
But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
अध्ययन टिप्पणी
Study Note
The 'breastplate of faith and love, and for an helmet, the hope of salvation' adapts Isaiah 59:17 — where God himself dons armour for the day of eschatological battle — and applies the divine warrior's armour to believers who live in the overlap of the ages. The triad of faith, love, and hope, already introduced in 1:3 as the Thessalonians' defining characteristics, here becomes the spiritual equipment for sober vigilance in the present evil age. The partial parallel in Ephesians 6:10-17 elaborates the armour metaphor at length, but the Thessalonians text is chronologically earlier and likely represents Paul's first deployment of the divine-warrior tradition. The verse shapes the militaristic language of Christian spiritual formation that runs from Ignatius through the medieval miles Christianus to Bunyan's Holy War.
अन्य अनुवाद
But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
and we, being of the day--let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and an helmet--a hope of salvation,
But let us, who are of the day, be serious, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and on our heads, the hope of salvation.
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