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Word Biblical Commentary, Volume 45: 1 & 2 Thessalonians is unavailable, but you can change that!

Detailed exegesis defines any commentary written by F.F. Bruce. Here, Bruce’s efforts provide detailed analysis of the Thessalonian context, the spread of the gospel in Macedonia, and a review of the textual transmission of these early New Testament books. Bruce explains why the Christian message caused a riot at Thessalonica, and traces the church’s anxieties over the return of Christ,...

and later still to Byzantium (Strabo, Geog. 7.7.4; cf. Hammond, “The Western Part …,” and, for a good popular account of recent date, O’Sullivan, The Egnatian Way). As may be gathered from 1 Maccabees 8:1–16, the story of the overthrow of the Macedonian kings, losing nothing in the telling, made a deep impression on the inhabitants of Syria and Palestine as they learned more and more about those invincible Romans from the distant west (cf. Bruce, “The Romans through Jewish Eyes”). Macedonia thus
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