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To edification - exhortation - comfort (οἰκοδομὴν - παράκλησιν - παραμυθίαν)
Omit to. For edification see on build up, Act 20:32. Exhortation, so American Rev. Rev., comfort. See on Luk 6:24. Παραμυθία comfort, Rev., consolation, occurs only here in the New Testament. Παραμύθιον, which is the same, in Phi 2:1. The two latter words are found together in Phi 2:1, and their kindred verbs in 1Th 2:11. The differences in rendering are not important. The words will bear either of the meanings in the two Revisions. If παράκλησιν be rendered as Rev., comfort, παραμυθία might be rendered incentive, which implies exhortation. Consolation and comfort border a little too closely on each other.