| Summary: | Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Author's Preface -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Introduction -- I. Rivers, Roads, Rolling Mountains, and the Sea: Geography and Travel through Macedonia and Thessalonica -- II. A Summary History of Macedonia and Thessalonica -- III. The Government of Thessalonica -- IV. The Social and Economic Worlds of Thessalonica -- V. Religion in Thessalonica -- VI. The Gospel and The Thessalonians -- VII. The Authorship of 1 and 2 Thessalonians -- A. 1 Thessalonians -- B. 2 Thessalonians -- 1. Literary Arguments -- 2. The Argument from Form -- 3. The Theological Argument -- VIII. The Order of the Epistles -- IX. The Structure of 1 and 2 Thessalonians -- 1 Thessalonians -- I. "Paul, Silas and Timothy, To The Church of The Thessalonians" - The Epistolary Greeting (1.1) -- II. "We Always Thank God for All of You" - The Coming of the Gospel and Its Reception (1.2-10) -- III. "You Know …" - The Body of the Letter (2.1-5.22) -- A. "Our visit to you was not a failure" - The Gospel Arrives in Thessalonica (2.1-3.13) -- 1. " Our visit" - The Apostolic Entrance (2.1-12) -- 2. "We also thank God … you received the word of God" - The Reception of the Gospel (2.13-16) -- 3. "We were torn away from you" - The Exit of the Apostles and the Attempts to Return (2.17-20) -- 4. "We sent Timothy" - The Mission of Timothy (3.1-5) -- 5. "But Timothy has just now come to us" - Thanksgiving to God for the Thessalonians (3.6-10) -- 6. "Now may our God … clear the way for us to come to you" - The Prayer to Return to Thessalonica (3.11-13) -- B. "You know what instructions we gave you" - The Life That Pleases God (4.1-5.22) -- 1. "We instructed you how to live in order to please God" - The Introduction (4.1-2) -- 2. "You should avoid sexual immorality" - Sanctification (4.3-8).
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