Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
This verse distinguishes them from the Jews, as 1 Thessalonians 1:9 from the idolatrous Gentiles. To wait for the Lord's coming is a sure characteristic of a true believer, and was prominent amidst the graces of the Thessalonians (1 Corinthians 1:7-8). His coming is seldom called his return (John 14:3); because the two advents are regarded as different phases of the same coming; and the second coming shall have features altogether new connected with it, so that it will not be a mere repetition of the first, or a mere coming back again.
his Son . . . raised from the dead--the grand proof of His divine Sonship (Romans 1:4).
delivered--rather as Greek, "who delivereth us." Christ has once for all redeemed us; He is our Deliverer ALWAYS.
wrath to come-- (1 Thessalonians 5:9; Colossians 3:6).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Song of Solomon 8:14
Daniel 7:12
Daniel 7:25
Matthew 3:7
Acts 17:4
1 Thessalonians 1:1
1 Thessalonians 1:3
1 Thessalonians 1:3
2 Thessalonians 3:5
2 Timothy 4:18
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