SEV Biblia, Chapter 4:2
Porque ya sabis qu mandamientos os dimos por el Seor Jess.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Thessalonians 4:2
Verse 2. Ye know what commandments we gave you] This refers to his instructions while he was among them; and to instructions on particular subjects, which he does not recapitulate, but only hints at.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 2. For ye know what commandments we gave you , etc.] When among them; such as those of faith and love, the ordinances of the Gospel, baptism, and the Lord's supper, and all such as relate to the worship and service of God, to the discipline of Christ's house, to their behaviour one towards another, and their conduct in the world: and which were delivered to them, not as from themselves, and by their own authority, but by the Lord Jesus ; in his name, and by his authority, and as ordered by him; for their commission ran to teach men all things, whatsoever Christ commanded: now since they knew what these commandments were, and whose they were, and the obligation they lay under to regard them, the apostle makes use of it as a reason or argument to engage them to obedience to them; for he that knows his Lord's will, and does it not, shall be beaten with many stripes, ( Luke 12:47).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-8 - To abide in the faith of the gospel is not enough, we must abound in the work of faith. The rule according to which all ought to walk an act, is the commandments given by the Lord Jesus Christ Sanctification, in the renewal of their souls under the influences of the Holy Spirit, and attention to appointed duties, constituted the will of God respecting them. In aspiring after this renewal of the sou unto holiness, strict restraint must be put upon the appetites an senses of the body, and on the thoughts and inclinations of the will which lead to wrong uses of them. The Lord calls none into his famil to live unholy lives, but that they may be taught and enabled to wal before him in holiness. Some make light of the precepts of holiness because they hear them from men; but they are God's commands, and to break them is to despise God.
Greek Textus Receptus
οιδατε 1492 5758 γαρ 1063 τινας 5101 παραγγελιας 3852 εδωκαμεν 1325 5656 υμιν 5213 δια 1223 του 3588 κυριου 2962 ιησου 2424
Vincent's NT Word Studies
2. Commandments (paraggeliav). Better, charges. Only four times in N.T. o LXX. The verb paraggellein to command or charge is frequent, and is often used in Class of military orders. See Xen. Cyr. ii. 4, 2; Hdt. iii. 25.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
4:2 {What charge} (tinas paraggelias). Plural, charges or precepts, command (#Ac 16:24), prohibition (#Ac 5:28), right living (#1Ti 1:5). Military term in Xenophon and Polybius.
