(paragraph) through a logical analysis of the development of the propositions in each unit and then tracing the logical development of the themes from paragraph to paragraph and attempting to discover the main point of the entire epistle. The only attempt to analyze the two Thessalonian epistles along these lines has been done respectively by J. Callow (1982) and R. H. Sterner (1998). The main interpretive idea and theological emphases of the entire first epistle can be formulated as follows: Paul
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