And to wait. — The idea of the Advent is that which both here and throughout the Epistle occupies the foreground in the minds of St. Paul and his friends. These two infinitives, “to serve” and “to wait,” express not so much the intention of the Thessalonians in turning, as the condition into which they came by turning.
Whom he raised. — Not only proves His Sonship (Romans 1:4), but also gives a kind of explanation of the “awaiting Him from heaven.”
Delivered. — Better, delivereth.
To come. — Better, which is already coming. The wrath is on its way to the world, to appear with Christ from heaven (2 Thessalonians 1:7-8), and He is day by day working to save us from it (Hebrews 7:25).