view, which is that while the Thessalonians had received instruction from Paul regarding the resurrection of the dead, they had not fully appreciated it. But if the Thessalonians had absorbed Paul’s teaching regarding the return of Christ from heaven, it seems hard to believe that they would have found it difficult to accept his normal teaching concerning the resurrection. As I will show, it was not the resurrection as such that proved problematic, but concern about the connection between the resurrection
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