1 Thessalonians 4:14

1 Thessalonians 4:14. Which sleep in Jesus— The state of the bodies of the pious dead in their graves is not only here, but in many other passages of scripture, described as a short sleep, compared with that eternal life into which they shall awake in the morning of the resurrection. This 14th verse ought to be read in a parenthesis, it being a repetition of what the Apostle had more fully instructed them in before. The resurrection of Christ was the grand fact upon which the whole Christian religiondepended; and with it, the resurrection of mankind in general, but more especially of the just, was joined in the closest connection. This is what the Apostle elsewhere shews at large; here he only reminds the Thessalonians of it in a short parenthesis, and passes on to the further discovery mentioned in the preceding note.