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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians is unavailable, but you can change that!

For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theological—with a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series. No attempt has been made to...

encouragement but instruction; as for the rest, they required not new teaching but either encouragement or warning. “The shortcomings of their faith” (I 3:10) arose chiefly from the religious difficulties of the weak, the faint-hearted, and the idle. (1) The difficulty of “the weak” (οἱ ἀσθενεῖς I 5:14) was that as pagans they had looked upon sexual immorality as a matter of indifference and had perhaps in their pagan worship associated impurity with consecration to the gods. What they as Christians
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