Commentaries:Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
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1 Thessalonians 5:11
Build each other up (oikodomeite eiv ton ena). Literally, build ye, one the one (eiv nominative in partitive apposition with unexpressed umeiv subject of oikodomeite. Then ton ena the accusative in partitive apposition with the unexpressed eautouv or allhlouv. See the same idiom in I Corinthians 4:6
one in behalf of the one, eiv uper tou enov. Build is a favourite Pauline metaphor.
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