Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Thessalonians 5:16
16. Rejoice Why not? Are not Christ and all heaven yours? The wicked, the proud, the laughers, the revellers, the bloody rulers of this world, amid all their boisterous mirth and drunken hilarity, have just reason for despondency and despair. And underneath all their rollick and riot are a true despondency and hopelessness. They stand on a thin crust over the abyss of hell, and are dropping down and in by successive thousands. But beneath you is the basis of the everlasting atonement, above... read more
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 1 Thessalonians 5:18
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.For this — That you should thus rejoice, pray, give thanks.Is the will of God — Always good, always pointing at our salvation. read more