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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Bibliography
COMMENTARY ON 1 THESSALONIANS
INTRODUCTION
I. Authorship and Date
II. The City and its Christian Community
II. The Occasion and Place of Writing
TEXT, EXPOSITION, AND NOTES
I. Thanksgiving, Narrative, and Prayer (1:1–3:13)
A. Salutation (1:1)
B. Thanksgiving (1:2–3)
C. Narrative Part 1: The Thessalonians’ Conversion and Following (1:4–10)
1. Paul Reminds the Thessalonians of Their Experience of Conversion (1:4–7)
2. The Thessalonians’ Following Christ Had Become Well Known to Others (1:8–10)
D. Narrative Part 2: Paul’s Conduct in Thessalonica (2:1–12)
1. What Paul Was NOT like among the Thessalonians (2:1–7b)
2. What Paul WAS like among the Thessalonians (2:7c–12)
E. The Thanksgiving Renewed (2:13)
F. Narrative Part 3: The Thessalonians’ (and Paul’s) Ill Treatment (2:14–16)
G. Narrative Part 4: In the Meantime (2:17–3:10)
1. Paul Had Been Thwarted from Returning (2:17–20)
2. The Sending of Timothy (3:1–5)
3. The Return of Timothy (3:6–10)
H. The Prayer Report (3:11–13)
II. Supplying What Is Lacking (4:1–5:11)
A. Introduction (4:1–2)
B. Avoiding Sexual Immorality (4:3–8)
C. Loving Others by Working with One’s Own Hands (4:9–12)
D. About Believers Who Have Died (4:13–18)
E. About the Day of the Lord (5:1–11)
1. The Day of the Lord and Unbelievers (5:1–3)
2. The Day of the Lord and the Thessalonian Believers (5:4–11)
III. Concluding Matters (5:12–28)
A. Summary Exhortations (5:12–22)
1. Attitudes toward Their Leaders (5:12–13)
2. Imperatival Summation of the Letter (5:14–15)
3. Exhortation to Continue Basic Christian Piety (5:16–18)
4. About Christian Prophecy (5:19–22)
B. Benediction (5:23–24)
C. Closing Greetings and Final Grace (5:25–28)
COMMENTARY ON 2 THESSALONIANS
INTRODUCTION
I. Authorship and Date
II. Occasion for Writing
TEXT, EXPOSITION, AND NOTES
I. Thanksgiving and Prayer (1:1–12)
A. Salutation (1:1–2)
B. Thanksgiving, Including the First Issue (1:3–10)
1. Thanksgiving for Perseverance in Suffering (1:3–4)
2. Judgment of the Persecutors and Salvation for God’s People (1:5–10)
C. Prayer (1:11–12)
II. The Second Issue: The “When” of the Day of the Lord (2:1–17)
A. The Issue Presented (2:1–2)
B. Paul’s Response (2:3–12)
1. What Will Precede That Day (2:3–4)
2. What Holds Back That Day (2:5–7)
3. What Will Take Place on That Day (2:8–12)
C. Conclusion (2:13–17)
1. Thanksgiving (2:13–14)
2. Concluding Exhortation (2:15)
3. Prayer (2:16–17)
III. The Third Issue: About the Disruptive-Idle (3:1–15)
A. A Captatio Benevolentiae (3:1–5)
1. A Request for Prayer (3:1–2a)
2. Affirmation and Prayer (3:2b–5)
B. Exhortation regarding the Disruptive-Idle (3:6–12)
1. The Issue Presented (3:6)
2. First Word for the Disruptive-Idle: Imitate Paul (3:7–10)
3. The Issue and Exhortation Repeated (3:11–12)
C. Exhortation to the Rest (3:13–15)
1. Always Do Good (3:13)
2. Shun the Disobedient (3:14–15)
IV. Concluding Matters (3:16–18)
A. Benediction (3:16)
B. Paul’s Personal Greeting (3:17)
C. The Grace (3:18)
Notes
Modern Authors
Subjects
Biblical and Other Ancient References
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