Quotes & Notes
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John Wesley's Notes:
God hath from the beginning-Of your hearing the gospel.
Chosen you to salvation-Taken you out of the world, and
placed you in the way to glory.
- Treasury of Scripture Knowledge:
* we. 2Th 1:3; Ro 1:8; 6:17
* beloved. 2Th 2:16; De
33:12; 2Sa 12:25*marg:| Jer 31:3; Eze 16:8; Da 9:23; 10:11,19; Ro 1:7;
Col 3:12; 1Jo 4:10,19
* from. Ge 1:1; Pr 8:23; Isa 46:10; Joh 1:1; 8:44; Heb 1:10
* chosen. Ro 8:33; 9:11; Eph 1:4,5; 1Th 1:4; 2Ti 1:9; 1Pe 1:2
* through. 2Th 2:10,12; Lu 1:75; 1Pe 1:2-5
* belief. Joh 8:45; 14:6; Ac 13:48; 15:9; Ga 3:1; Eph 2:8; Col 1:5; 2Ti
2:15 2Ti 3:15; Jas 1:18
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Adam Clarke's Commentary:
God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, &c.] In your
calling, God has shown the purpose that he had formed from the
beginning, to call the Gentiles to the same privileges with the Jews,
not through circumcision, and the observance of the Mosaic law, but by
faith in Christ Jesus; but this
simple way of salvation referred to the same end-holiness, without which
no man, whether Jew or Gentile, can see the Lord.
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Family Bible Notes:
Chosen you to salvation through sanctification--and belief of the truth;
God not only chooses his people
to salvation, but he chooses the way also--"sanctification of the
Spirit and belief of the truth"--a way in which they "work out" their
"own salvation with fear and trembling," while God "worketh in" them
"both to will and to do of his good pleasure."
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People's New Testament Commentary:
Through sanctification of the Spirit. This clause tells how God chose
them to salvation. To this there are two sides, the human and the
divine. On the human side they
believed the truth. On the divine side, God sanctified them by the
Spirit. He had chosen from the beginning all that believe and
accept the truth.
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William Burkitt's Notes:
The necessary
connection between the sanctification of the Spirit, and the belief of
the truth, even as between the cause and the effect, and they do also
accompany one another; the gospel was a supernatural doctrine,
and it was fit that it should be accompanied with a supernatural
operation, how else should it be known to be of God? The gospel and the
Spirit are inseparable companions; where the gospel is little known,
there is little of the Spirit found: He hath chosen you to salvation,
through sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth.
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Albert Barnes' Commentary:
That this is a reason for thanksgiving. Why should it not be?
Can there be any higher ground
of praise or gratitude than that God has chosen us to be eternally holy
and happy, and that he has from eternity designed that we should be so?
Whatever, therefore, may be the feelings with which those who are
not chosen to salvation, regard this doctrine, it is clear that those
who have evidence that they are chosen should make it a subject of
grateful praise. They can have no more exalted source of gratitude than
that they are chosen to eternal life.
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Geneva Bible Notes:
Now election is known by these
testimonies: faith is increased by sanctification: faith, by that which
we grant to the truth; truth, by calling, through the preaching of the
Gospel: from where we come at length to a certain hope of glorification.
(p) To sanctify you. (q) Faith which does not lay hold upon lies, but
upon the truth of God, which is the Gospel.
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Robertson's Word Pictures:
See 2Th 1:3 for same beginning.
Beloved of the Lord (êgapêmenoi hupo kuriou). Perfect passive
participle of agapaô with hupo and the ablative as in 1Th 1:4, only here
kuriou instead of theou, the Lord Jesus rather than God the Father.
Because that God chose you (hoti heilato humas ho theos). First aorist
middle indicative of haireô, to take, old verb, but uncompounded only in
N.T. here, Php 1:22; Heb 11:25, and here only in sense of choose, that
being usually exaireomai or proorizô. From the beginning (ap' archês).
Probably the correct text (Aleph D L) and not aparchên (first fruits, B
G P), though here alone in Paul's writings and a hard reading, the
eternal choice or purpose of God (1Co 2:7; Eph 1:4; 2Ti 1:9), while
aparchên is a favourite idea with Paul (1Co 15:20,23; 16:15; Ro 8:23;
11:16; 16:5). Unto salvation (eis sôtêrian). The ultimate goal, final
salvation. In sanctification of the Spirit (en hagiasmôi pneumatos).
Subjective genitive pneumatos,
sanctification wrought by the Holy Spirit. And belief of the
truth (kai pistei alêtheias). Objective genitive alêtheias, belief in
the truth.
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