3720 - Traditions

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 16, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 16.

3720 — Traditions

Please explain 2 Thess. 3:6. What traditions?

The traditions which that church had received of the apostle is what is meant, such as are referred to in the 15th verse of the previous chapter: "Stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle;" that is, the things which God had Himself given, and had handed down through the past, giving them from time to time through inspired prophets and apostles, stamping them with the authority of God. It does not mean simply traditions handed down from mouth to mouth, from men who had no authority to give them, but those traditions which came down by men who spoke as moved by the Holy Spirit.