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The First and Second Letters to the Thessalonians is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this commentary Gordon Fee aims first and foremost to offer a fresh exposition of the text of 1 and 2 Thessalonians. He shows the reader what is in the biblical text, what the text meant in the first century, and what it means now. Fee reveals the logic of each argument or narrative before moving on to the details of each verse, and he concludes each section with a theological-practical...

of Paul will quickly recognize how thoroughly Pauline these admonitions are. In light of the preceding verse 14 and verses 19–22 that follow, this present set of imperatives is best understood within the context of the gathered community at worship, the context in which the letter itself would be read.32 That is, these are not aimed primarily toward how individual believers live out their faith in Thessalonica—although neither is that excluded—but with how these believers as a gathered community
Pages 214–215