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In A.D. 49, Paul traveled to Thessalonica, a major city in northern Greece, to preach the gospel. A small group of manual laborers responded positively to his message, resulting in the formation of a church. After spending less than three months with his converts, Paul left the city for southern Greece, ending up in Corinth, from where he wrote two letters to the Thessalonians four months or so...

These repeated reminders provide us with a glimpse of his initial instruction, given during his establishment of the church (Holmberg, 70–74). That this instruction was so structured in content and so uniformly used in the early Christian mission that it can be called a catechism (Selwyn, 365–466; Dodd 1968: 11–29) is to be doubted. Nevertheless, one can expect that the matters he refers to in the letter were indeed the ones that he typically stressed. Paul’s missionary preaching (1:9–10) and initial
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