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	Epistles to the Thessalonians - LoveToKnow 1911
		Paul's reply, the First Epistle to the Thessalonians, written from Corinth in A.D. 53 or 48, is as tactful as Philemon and as First personal as Galatians.
		On the whole, the perplexing situation seems to be met on the assumption that Paul writes the Second Epistle either with a letter from Thessalonica before him, which itself suggested the main points of his own epistle, or with a copy or a summary of that epistle before him (cf.
		The purpose moreover of the forgery could not be to discredit the First Epistle as un-Pauline, for the alleged trouble is that the Second Epistle is too Pauline.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Epistles_to_the_Thessalonians (1937 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Epistles to the Thessalonians
		Epistles to the Corinthians, Romans, and Galatians, for instance, there is no diving into the future, nothing said of the Parousia, or second coming of Jesus.
		The literary dependence of II Thessalonians on I Thessalonians cannot be gainsaid.
		Moreover, the structure of the Epistle, its subject-matter, and its affectionate outbursts of prayer for the recipients and of exhortation are all decidedly Pauline characteristics.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14629d.htm (3690 words)

	Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon \| Christian Classics Ethereal Library
		The strongest external evidence in favour of the authenticity of I Thessalonians is II Thessalonians which, whatsoever be its date of composition, is the very earliest document that clearly presupposes I Thessalonians to have been written by Paul.
		II Thessalonians was written at Corinth not long after I Thessalonians, for both Timothy and Silas are still with Paul (i, 1), and the silence of the Acts shows that, once Paul left Corinth, Silas was not again his companion in the ministry.
		The eschatology of I Thessalonians had been misunderstood by the Thessalonians; they took it, the day of the Lord was at hand (ii, 2); they were overwrought by the exaggerations of some meddlers and perhaps by a forged letter which purported to have come from Paul (ii, 2; iii, 17).
	www.ccel.org /ccel/herbermann/cathen14.html?term=Epistles%20to%20the%20Thessalonians (3497 words)

	Epistles to the Thessalonians
		The strongest external evidence in favour of the authenticity of I Thessalonians is II Thessalonians which, whatsoever be its date of composition, is the very earliest document that clearly presupposes I Thessalonians to have been written by Paul.
		The letter ends with a series of pithy and pointed exhortations to respect for their religious teachers, and to the other virtues that make up the glory of Christian life (v, 12-22); the Apostolic benediction and salutation, a request for prayers and the charge that the letter be read in public (verses 23-28).
		Manuscript evidence is the same for II Thessalonians as for I Thessalonians; so, too, the evidence of the ancient versions.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/t/thessalonians,epistles_to.html (3495 words)

	Thessalonians, Epistles to the (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net
		The first epistle to the Thessalonians was the first of all Paul's epistles.
		The occasion of the writing of this epistle was the arrival of tidings that the tenor of the first epistle had been misunderstood, especially with reference to the second advent of Christ.
		The Thessalonians had embraced the idea that Paul had taught that "the day of Christ was at hand", that Christ's coming was just about to happen.
	www.christiananswers.net /dictionary/thessaloniansepistlestothe.html (213 words)

	Bible Dictionary: Pauline Epistles
		Epistle to the Colossians was the result of a visit from Epaphras, the evangelist of the Church in Colossae (Col.
		Epistle to the Hebrews was written to Jewish members of the Church to persuade them that significant aspects of the law of Moses, as a forerunner, had been fulfilled in Christ, and that the higher gospel law of Christ had replaced it.
		The pastoral epistles, being addressed to men engaged in the ministry of the Church, are occupied mainly with questions relating to the internal discipline and organization of the Christian body and with the ideal of the pastoral office.
	scriptures.lds.org /bdp/plnpstls (3002 words)

	Notes on the Epistles to the Thessalonians
		To meet their need, the Holy Spirit addresses this epistle to them, in order to establish their faith, to give them light as to the coming of Jesus, and to comfort them in the midst of the persecutions they were going through.
		Converted through the power of God, the Thessalonians, far from remaining in the world and seeking to reconcile the world and faith, were, on the contrary, formed by that faith to wait for the Son of God from heaven.
		In consequence of their obedience of faith, the Thessalonians found themselves connected with the churches of Judea, which had preceded them in the same faith (there is one body); and, like those churches, the Thessalonians were suffering persecution from those of their own nation.
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	Epistles to the Thessalonians - InformationBlast
		The Epistles to the Thessalonians, also known as the Letters to the Thessalonians, are two books from the New Testament of the Christian Bible.
		The first letter to the Thessalonians was likely the first of all Paul's letters, most like written by the end of A.D. It was written after Timothy had returned from Macedonia, relating the state of the church in Thessalonica (Acts 18:1-5; 1 Thess.
		The Thessalonians had embraced the idea that Paul had taught that "the day of Christ was at hand", that Christ's coming was about to occur.
	www.informationblast.com /1_Thessalonians.html (228 words)

	THESSALONIANS (in progress)
		1 and 2 Thessalonians are the only epistles addressed to a specific physical church, emphasizing the status of the church at Thessalonica as a typical (model) church.
		The remainder of the epistle is exhortation and instruction.
		To regard the "man of sin" (2:3ff) as something other than the individual incarnation of evil described by Paul is to introduce error and confusion, to ignore the purpose and intent of the epistle and to disregard the surrounding corroboration of Daniel and Revelation in particular.
	www.correctbible.com /thessalonians.html (7765 words)

	Deutero-Pauline and Pastoral Epistles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Deutero-Pauline epistles are Colossians, Ephesians, and II Thessalonians.
		The Pastoral Epistles are I and II Timothy and Titus.
		The Pastoral Epistles were written around 100 -110 C.E., (closer to the time the gospel of John was put in its final written form).
	gbgm-umc.org /umw/corinthians/deutero.stm (920 words)

	Introduction to I Thessalonians
		The Epistles to the Thessalonians were written by the apostle Paul, which are among the earliest of Paul and of the New Testament.
		Important as this theme is, however, the Thessalonians letters leave the reader wide awake to the responsibilities of the present, not gazing into the future.
		The first three chapters of the epistle contain memories of his ministry among them, his concern for the believer's state of faith, his commission to Timothy to return to the church and the great delight experienced when he learned how firmly they maintained their faith.
	www.angelfire.com /sc3/redentormio/IThessalonians.html (2945 words)

	Church Epistles -- The Most Sublime Truths Revealed by God (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		All this constitutes precisely the scope of the Epistles of Paul.
		Paul, converted by the personal ministry of the Lord in glory, is distinctively the witness to a glorified Christ, Head over all things to the church which is His body, as the Eleven were to a Christ in the flesh, the Son of Abraham and of David.
		An interesting, logical structure to the church epistles was revealed by E W Bullinger.
	www.mysteryofgod.net /html/church_epistles.html (1577 words)

	THE SOUND OF SILENCE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT EPISTLES: 1 & 2 THESSALONIANS
		In six places in the Pastoral epistles (1 and 2 Timothy and Titus), the writer uses the phrase "wholesome (or sound) teachings," referring to the moral behavior he is enjoining upon the readers.
		By the time we reach the period of the Pastoral epistles (early 2nd century), Christians were beginning to hedge on predictions that the End was near, and allow for the possibility that the "appearance" of Christ Jesus was not just around the corner.
		I have remarked before on the curious and pervasive theocentricity of the epistles, something we should not expect if the movement began as an explosive reaction to a charismatic human man. Yet it is undeniable that early Christian writers seem never to present their Jesus as a strong, independent figure, clearly distinct from God.
	humanists.net /jesuspuzzle/silthess.htm (3694 words)

	Epistles to the Thessalonians
		The Epistles to the Thessalonians are two books of the New Testament of the Bible.
		It was in all probability written about the end of A.D. The occasion of its being written was the return of Timotheus from Macedonia, bearing tidings from Thessalonica regarding the state of the church there (Acts 18:1-5; 1 Thess.
		The second epistle to the Thessalonians was probably written from Corinth, Greece, and not many months after the first.
	www.fastload.org /ep/Epistles_to_the_Thessalonians.html (282 words)

	The Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, Galatians and Romans (1894) - vol. 1 1st Thessalonians: The Online ...
		In 1 Thessalonians, as in the Epistle to the Galatians, he recalls his converts to the moment of their first conversion; as in the Corinthians he appeals to the witness of his own life, and awakens their sympathies by the mention of persecutions which he suffered for their sakes.
		In the Church to which the Epistle of Jude is addressed, the worst heretics are described as joining in the love feasts of its members, ‘feeding without fear.’ The Second Epistle of Peter uses nearly the same words to the Jews of the dispersion.
		Admitting the genuineness of the Epistle, and the confirmation afforded by it to many of the statements of the Acts, we are naturally led to speculate by what arrangement of events the error may be made smallest.
	oll.libertyfund.org /Texts/StPaul0242/Epistles/HTMLs/0055-01_Pt02_1stThess.html (14597 words)

	2 Thessalonians 1 Supports Amillennialism
		According to David Chilton and some other contemporary postmillennialists, not only 2 Thessalonians but most of the other NT passages that have traditionally been understood as describing the Second Coming are in fact describing the fall of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. The language is figurative rather than literal.
		The question is whether the Thessalonians have any significant clues that would lead them to turn away from what from their point of view is the most obvious meaning.
		The postulate that the Thessalonians had a sophisticated, complete framework seems attractive because it helps protect our modern positions; but it is dangerously circular and, I believe, improbable in the light of the Thessalonians' confusions and Paul's short stay at Thessalonica.
	www.frame-poythress.org /poythress_articles/19952Thessalonians.htm (4861 words)

	Thessalonians, Epistles of -an Outline
		The Epistles to the Thessalonians are two letters written by the apostle Paul, which are among the earliest of Paul and of the New Testament.
		Important as this theme is, however, the Thessalonian letters leave the reader wide-awake to the responsibilities of the present, not gazing into the future.
		Three themes appear in the Thessalonian correspondence: thanksgiving for their faith and example in the past; encouragement for those undergoing persecution in the present; and exhortation to further work and growth in the future.
	www.ovrlnd.com /outlinesofbooks/thessalonians.html (1535 words)

	Step 10 - New Testament
		In his Thessalonians Epistles, Paul assures believers at Thessalonica of the return of Christ and corrects their misconceptions about the resurrection and the timing of the second coming of Christ.
		The Pastoral Epistles - 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus - were written to those who were helping him to strengthen the churches he had founded.
		The first epistles Paul ever wrote were those to the church he had founded at Thessalonica in Macedonia.
	www.10basicsteps.com /english/newtestament/step10l7.htm (1490 words)

	Saint Silas the Martyr - St.Silas Place, Kentish Town, London NW5 - Who is Saint Silas?
		Paul and Barnabas strongly urge the Gentile claim to freedom, and are supported by Peter and by James, "the Lord's brother," the "apostle" of the local church of Jerusalem.
		They leave at Philippi two church-households, Lydia's and the prison-governor's, to be the nucleus of that church for which later Paul in his epistle to them gives thanks for their fellowship in the gospel from this first day "until now" (about ten years later).
		The Epistles written later to the Thessalonians suggest a longer stay than the three weeks mentioned in v.2, and St. Paul says that he and Silas and Timothy worked for their own living while they were there (I Thessalonians 2.
	www.saintsilas.org.uk /section/112 (1857 words)

	2 Thessalonians
		Second Thessalonians is so like 1 Thessalonians and yet so different that it must be an imitation of 1 Thessalonians written to meet a later situation.
		In 1 Thessalonians the parousia, the coming of Jesus from heaven as apocalyptic judge and redeemer, is imminent.
		In contrast to the undisputed Pauline letters, 2 Thessalonians lacks antithetical formulations, passages in the style of the diatribe, and (with the exception of 2 Thess.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /2thessalonians.html (1083 words)

	The Grace Institute: The Pauline Epistles: 2 Thessalonians
		Based on the consistent themes as 1 Thessalonians, this letter was probably written not long after the first epistle to the Thessalonians.
		Some time after sending the first epistle to the Thessalonians, the church received a forged letter that seemed to be from Paul, which indicated that the Lord had already returned (2:2).
		However, added to this is an appeal for the Thessalonians to stand firm in their doctrine.
	www.gcfweb.org /institute/paul/2thessalonians-a.php (239 words)

	EPISTLES A THESSALONIANS - Artículo en línea de la información acerca de EPISTLES A THESSALONIANS
		orden formal del primer Epistle, él otra vez dios de las gracias que eligen a sus convertidos a la salvación y ruega que puedan tener fuerza y obedecer sus órdenes orales o escritas.
		Y sobretodo, especialmente en el tratamiento de las ruedas locas, la letra revela un conocimiento de la situación que es aún más explícita que la del primer Epistle.
		resumen de ese epistle antes de él (cf.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /es/THE_TOO/THESSALONIANS_EPISTLES_A.html (3640 words)

	Thessalonians Epistles
		First Thessalonians was penned from Corinth not long after Paul left Thessalonica at about 52.
		In First Thessalonians, the Day of the Lord is presented as imminent, to be, expected at any time, and confidently to be "awaited" by all believers in the Lord.
		In II Thessalonians, two new features are introduced into the discussion, the rebellion and the man of lawlessness.
	www.latter-rain.com /earlychurch/thess.htm (471 words)

	Church Epistles
		These nine epistles are many times referred to as the seven Church Epistles, with Corinthians and Thessalonians being referred to as one epistle each.
		Without an understanding and application of the instruction in the Church Epistles, Christians will continue to live according to doctrines that are not applicable to the Church of the Body of Christ and miss out on many of the blessings and benefits that God has made available in the Grace Administration.
		The four remaining epistles relate back to the doctrinal epistles that they follow, and are the reproof and correction for those doctrinal epistles.
	members.iquest.net /~szkotak/wow6.htm (942 words)

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		They would use a similar format, but an epistle was intended for broad consumption, while a letter was personal and for a restricted audience, and the writings of Paul are pretty much personal and somewhat privete, very specific things are mentioned.
		Paul’s time in their town was cut short, and he didn’t have time to explain everything to them, so when a crisis hit the church—in the form of the death of one or more members—the others were worried.
		Now in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-12 he reminded them that they could expect to see prophecies fulfilled, a final great conflict between the powers of good and evil, and final deception sweeping across the whole earth, before that day would come.
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