1 Thessalonians 4:1
Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
研读注释
Study Note
Paul's exhortation to 'walk and to please God, just as you are doing' employs the Jewish metaphor of 'walking' (halakhah) for ethical conduct, grounding practical holiness in covenantal relationship rather than abstract morality. The phrase 'to do so more and more' (perisseuēte mallon) indicates that sanctification is not binary (holy/not holy) but progressive, always susceptible of deeper appropriation. The appeal is made 'in the Lord Jesus' — invoking the sphere of union with Christ as the context for all ethical instruction — and 'by the authority of the Lord Jesus,' grounding the commands in apostolic transmission of dominical teaching. The passage (4:1-12) proceeds to address sexual ethics, brotherly love, and industry as the concrete content of pleasing God, resisting any spiritualization of holiness that bypasses embodied conduct.
其他译本
Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,—that ye abound more and more.
As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,
And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more.
交叉参考
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