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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...

The injunction to constant joy and prayer and to thanksgiving in every circumstance is characteristic of Paul (cf. 3:9 f.). The fact, however, that he notes, as in 4:3, that this exhortation is God’s will makes probable that the special circumstances of persecution from without and friction within are here in mind as in vv. 14–15. In adding that this will of God operates in Christ Jesus, he designates that will as distinctively Christian, the will of the indwelling
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