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The Will of God



The Will of God

Ver. 1 Thessalonians 4:3.—For this is the will of God. The phrase, the will of God,” has two significations in Scripture: the one is the determination of Godhis decree; the other is his desire, that in which he delightsa will, however, which may be frustrated by the perversity of his creatures. It is in this latter sense that the word is here employed. Even your sanctification; complete consecration; holiness taken in its most general sense. Our holiness is the great design of Christ’s death, and is the revealed will of God. Some (Olshausen, Lünemann) restrict the term to moral purity, and consider the next clause as its explanation (oomp. Rom. 12:1). That ye should abstain from fornication; a vice fearfully prevalent among the heathen, and which, indeed, they hardly regarded as wrong. Especially it was the great sin of Corinth, from which the apostle wrote, the patron goddess of which city was Venus.

Spence-Jones, H. D. M., ed. 1 Thessalonians. London; New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1909. Print. The Pulpit Commentary.

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