1 Thessalonians 5

1:4 knowing, (a-1) Oida , ‘know consciously,’ as throughout 1 and 2Thess., except 1 Thessalonians 3:5 .

1 Thessalonians 5:8

5:8 hope (a-23) Compare 1 Corinthians 13:13 . ‘faith, hope, love, these three things.’

1 Thessalonians 5:22

5:22 wickedness. (b-7) The distinction between the expressions ’the right’ and the word translated ‘wickedness’ (lit. ’evil’) without an article is profoundly beautiful. The latter is looked at as a general thing, a genus, and has kinds or species. They were to hold fast ’ the right,’ the thing in itself. But we cannot speak of evil in itself as an abstract existence. Its most absolute form is Satan , though we may practically speak of ’evil,’ but I cannot say ’evilness’ as I can ‘goodness.’ I must suppose an existence of what is good to have an idea of evil. But if I say ’ wickedness,’ I think of an act or of evil will in someone, malice, and this gives the sense here.