1 Thessaloniciens 3:8

8 Car maintenant nous vivons, puisque vous demeurez fermes dans le Seigneur.

1 Thessaloniciens 3:8 Meaning and Commentary

1 Thessalonians 3:8

For now we live
Before they were dead men, lifeless, disconsolate, dispirited, carrying about with them the dying of the Lord Jesus, and death working in them, and they, as it were, under the sentence of that, being killed all the day long for Christ's sake; but now, upon this news, in the midst of all their sore trials and troubles, their spirits revived, and they became alive and cheerful; see ( Psalms 22:26 ) ( Isaiah 55:3 ) , it was like life from the dead unto them:

if ye stand fast in the Lord:
or "our Lord", as the Syriac and Ethiopic versions read; that is, "in the faith of the Lord", as the Arabic version renders it: they were in the Lord secretly by electing grace, and openly by regenerating grace, and they abode in him; and by persevering grace, they were rooted and built up in Christ, and established in the faith of him, of his person, office, and grace; they were steady in the exercise of grace upon him, and stood fast in the liberty wherewith he had made them free, and continued steadfastly in the doctrines and ordinances of the Gospel; for the "if" here is not expressive of doubting, but of reasoning, "seeing ye stand fast in the Lord"; of which they were assured by Timothy: and this gave them fresh spirit and life amidst the deaths in which they often were.

1 Thessaloniciens 3:8 In-Context

6 Mais Timothée, récemment arrivé ici de chez vous, nous a donné de bonnes nouvelles de votre foi et de votre charité, et nous a dit que vous avez toujours de nous un bon souvenir, désirant nous voir comme nous désirons aussi vous voir.

7 En conséquence, frères, au milieu de toutes nos calamités et de nos tribulations, nous avons été consolés à votre sujet, à cause de votre foi.

8 Car maintenant nous vivons, puisque vous demeurez fermes dans le Seigneur.

9 Quelles actions de grâces, en effet, nous pouvons rendre à Dieu à votre sujet, pour toute la joie que nous éprouvons à cause de vous, devant notre Dieu!

10 Nuit et jour, nous le prions avec une extrême ardeur de nous permettre de vous voir, et de compléter ce qui manque à votre foi.