1 Thessalonians 4:2 - Exposition

For ye know ; appealing to their memory in confirmation of what he had said. What commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus ; or, through the Lord Jesus ; that is, not merely by his authority, but by means of him, so that these commandments did not proceed from Paul, but from the Lord Jesus himself. We have here, and indeed in this chapter throughout, an assertion of the inspiration of the apostle: the commandments which he gave to the Thessalonians were the commandments of the Lord Jesus.