1st Thessalonians Chapter 5 verse 2 Holy Bible
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
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For you yourselves have the knowledge that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
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for ye know perfectly well yourselves, that the day of [the] Lord so comes as a thief by night.
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For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
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For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
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for yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come,
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1st Thessalonians 5 : 2 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - For yourselves know perfectly; namely, not from Scripture, nor from oral tradition, but from the teaching of the apostle when in Thessalonica. That the day of the Lord. "The day of the Lord" is a common Old Testament expression, denoting the coming of the Divine judgments (Joel 1:15; Joel 2:1); and by the phrase here is meant, not the destruction of Jerusalem, nor the day of one's death, but the day of the Lord's advent, when Christ shall descend from heaven in glory for the resurrection of the dead and the judgment of the world. The idea of judgment is contained in the term "day." So cometh as a thief in the night. The same comparison is used by our Lord himself (Matthew 24:43; Luke 12:39), and the very words are employed by Peter (2 Peter 3:10). The point of resemblance is evidently the unexpectedness and suddenness of the coming. The thief comes upon people in the night season, when they are asleep and unprepared; so, in a similar manner, when Christ comes, he will find the world unprepared and not expecting his advent. The ancient Fathers inferred from this passage that Christ would come to judgment in the night season, and hence they instituted vigils, or night watches. Some, still more precisely, fixed the coming on Easter night, from the analogy of the deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt on the paschal evening.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) Know perfectly.--Or, accurately. There is something of an oxymoron (see Note on 1Thessalonians 4:11) here. "I need not tell you about the time, for you know to a nicety--not the hour of Christ's coming, but--the utter uncertainty respecting it." The word shows at the same time with what scrupulous care St. Paul had instructed them on this topic.The day of the Lord.--Here "the Lord" (as usual in the New Testament) means Jesus Christ; and this day can mean nothing else than the great day of His return to judgment. The expression is taken from the Old Testament, where, of course, it does not primarily mean what we call "the Day of Judgment," but the set time which God has fixed for any great visitation. Thus in Joel 2:1, et seq., it means the time appointed for the plague of locusts; in Ezekiel 13:5, generally, any day when God visits His people; in Joel 3:14, the fixed time for vengeance to be taken upon the heathen for persecuting the Church; which, in Isaiah 2:12 (a passage largely influenced by recollections of Joel), seems to widen into a general day of judgment for mankind. . . .