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The Dictionary of Paul and His Letters is a one-of-a-kind reference work. Following the format of its highly successful companion volume, the Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, this Dictionary is designed to bring students, teachers, ministers and laypeople abreast of the established conclusions and significant recent developments in Pauline scholarship. No other single reference works...

salvation originated with the Father, and from another it was the Son who did what was necessary to bring about salvation. Paul writes that God did not destine the Thessalonians for wrath but for salvation “through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Thess 5:9). It is Jesus who “delivers us from the wrath to come” (1 Thess 1:10), or to put it slightly differently, it is “through” Christ that believers shall be saved from the wrath (Rom 5:9). Paul develops this thought by saying that sinners were God’s enemies