His converts are strongly under the impression that they will be alive at the Coming, and that it will be the worse for the departed: therefore, St. Had the “we” stood alone, without the explanatory participles, it might have amounted to a proof, but not so now. Very likely he did, but it cannot be proved from this passage. Paul confidently expected the Advent before his death. There is not the least necessity for supposing from these words that St.

We which are alive and remain.-Literally, We, ( that is) the quick, those who are left over. Paul here uses) to express by material imagery spiritual facts. (See 1Corinthians 7:10 1Corinthians 7:12 1Corinthians 7:25 1Corinthians 7:40.) He means this declaration here to hold good of the details, which are such as no one would invent and teach with such solemnity at the same time it must be remembered, with regard to the details, that it is the very idiom of prophecy (which St. Paul speaks of possessing the consciousness sometimes and not at others. It does not mean “According to certain words which Christ spoke,” nor yet “ By means of a revelation from the Lord to me,” but “ By way of a divine revelation:” “I tell you this as a message straight from God.” In what way apostles and prophets became conscious of supernatural inspiration we cannot tell but elsewhere also St. A most direct claim to plenary inspiration (see references). Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(15) By the word of the Lord.-Literally, in.

Then we who are living, who are remaining over, together with them shall be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in air, and so always with the Lord we shall be ġ Thessalonians 4:17 Additional Translations. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Then we who are alive, who are left, shall be taken up together with them in the clouds to meet Christ, into the air, and so shall we be always with the Lord. Then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.Īfter that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.

We who are alive and remain