1 Th 5:8f; 2 Th 2:13. What may be called the negative content of salvation is indicated in 5:9: it is salvation from the final eschatological manifestation of the wrath of God. But there is also a positive content. It is the restoration of the δόξα which sinful men lack (compare the contrast between justification/ reconciliation and salvation in 5:9f with the contrast between justification and glorification in 8:30; compare also the description in Phil 3:20f of the work of Christ as σωτήρ as the
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