Abbreviations

Abbott-Smith

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1937.

ASV

American Standard Version

AV

Authorized or King James Version of 1611

BDF

F. Blass, A. Debrunner, and R. W. Funk, A Greek Grammar of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.

Best

E. Best, The First and Second Epistles to the Thessalonians. HNTC. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.

Bruce

F. F. Bruce, 1 & 2 Thessalonians. WBC 45. Waco, Texas: Word, 1982.

CBQ

Catholic Biblical Quarterly

cf.

compare

ExpT

Expository Times

f.(ff.)

and following verse(s) or page(s)

Findlay

G. G. Findlay, The Epistles to the Thessalonians. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1925.

Gk.

Greek

Heb.

Hebrew

JB

The Jerusalem Bible

JBL

Journal of Biblical Literature

Lightfoot

J. B. Lightfoot, Notes on the Epistles of St. Paul. London: Macmillan, 1904.

LXX

Septuagint (pre-Christian Greek version of the Old Testament)

marg.

margin

Milligan

G. Milligan, St. Paul’s Epistles to the Thessalonians. London: Macmillan, 1908.

Morris

L. Morris, The Epistles of Paul to the Thessalonians. Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press, 1984.

Morris, Themes

L. Morris, Word Biblical Themes: 1, 2 Thessalonians. Dallas: Word, 1989.

Moulton-Milligan

J. H. Moulton and G. Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1930.

MS(MSS)

manuscript(s)

NBD

J. D. Douglas, ed. The New Bible Dictionary. London: Inter-Varsity Fellowship, 1962.

NEB

New English Bible

NIDNTT

C. Brown, ed. The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology. 3 vols. Exeter: Paternoster Press, 1975–78.

NIV

New International Version

NovT

Novum Testamentum

NTS

New Testament Studies

Phillips

J. B. Phillips, The New Testament in Modern English. London: Geoffrey Bles Ltd., 1958.

1QH

Thanksgiving Hymns, Qumram Cave 1

RSV

Revised Standard Version

RV

Revised Version of 1881

Saunders

E. W. Saunders, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, Philippians, Philemon. Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1981.

SBL

Society of Biblical Literature

Schmithals

W. Schmithals, Paul and the Gnostics. New York: Abingdon, 1972.

v.(vv.)

verse(s)

Williams, Acts

D. J. Williams, Acts. NIBC 5. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 1990.

Williams, Promise

D. J. Williams, The Promise of His Coming. Homebush West, Australia: Anzea Publishers, 1990.

ZNW

Zeitschrift für neutestamentliche Wissenschaft