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The First and Second Epistles to the Thessalonians is unavailable, but you can change that!

The 1974 estimate by Interpretation that Ernest Best’s volume on 1 & 2 Thessalonians “is probably the best exegetical study of 1 and 2 Thessalonians available … a superb commentary” continues to ring true nearly twenty years later. This is indeed one of the finest commentaries on 1 & 2 Thessalonians available—in any language. The Journal of Theological Studies called it “exhaustive” and concluded...

the world, an approach which emerges from his relationship to God (‘praying, giving thanks’, vv. 17, 18) and which has been created by what God has done in Christ Jesus (this goes with God’s will rather than with you, i.e. it is not primarily expressing the existence of Christians in Christ but the locus of God’s activity towards them). Because the Christian has been redeemed in Christ God has willed joy and prayers for him in Christ. The whole activity of God towards the Christian can be said to
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