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The two epistles to the Thessalonians are study in contrasts. A comparison reveals considerable similarities of structure and language, but differences in tone and content. The most important concerns of the first letter all but disappear in the second, and minor concerns of the first letter increase in intensity in the second. Even when issues and concerns are shared by both, 2 Thessalonians...

snatching away living victims but Christ snatching away from death those who belong to God. The scene culminates in the astonishing claim: “and so we will be with the Lord forever.” In this context of the crisis at Thessalonica, Paul offers profound consolation. To be “with the Lord” is to be safe, as is clear in the parallel statement in 5:9–10 (compare Rom. 8:31–39). To be with the Lord is to be beyond the reach of evil, remote from the touch of pain. This is also a further claim about the Lord’s
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