Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Putting on the breastplate of faith and love (endusamenoi qwraka pistewv kai agaphv). First aorist (ingressive) middle participle of enduw. The same figure of breastplate in Ephesians 6:14, only there "of righteousness." The idea of watchfulness brings the figure of a sentry on guard and armed to Paul's mind as in Romans 13:12 "the weapons of light." The word qwrac (breastplate) is common in the LXX.
For a helmet, the hope of salvation (perikefalaian elpida swthriav). Same figure in Ephesians 6:17 and both like Isaiah 59:17. Late word meaning around (peri) the head (kefalh) and in Polybius, LXX, and in the papyri. Swthriav is objective genitive.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Thessalonians 5:8:
Romans 13:12
2 Corinthians 6:7
Galatians 3:27
Ephesians 6:14
Ephesians 6:17
1 Thessalonians 5:6
1 Timothy 3:2
2 Timothy 3:6
2 Timothy 4:5
1 Peter 1:5
1 Peter 1:13
Revelation 9:9
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