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Forced out of Thessalonica by the Jews for his effective ministry, Paul wrote to encourage and teach new believers there. His first letter, according to John Calvin, contains a brief definition of true Christianity. It is a faith that is full of vigor, employing itself in the labors of love, intent upon the hope of the manifestation of Christ, despising everything else, and armed with an...

Here, however, the subject under discussion is not the name of God but his majesty and worship and, in general, everything he claims for himself. “True religion consists of worshiping the true God alone. This is what the man of lawlessness has accrued to himself.” Everyone who has learned from Scripture what things especially belong to God will have no great difficulty in recognizing the Antichrist as he observes the claims of the Pope, even if he is only a ten-year-old boy. Scripture declares that
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