Caligula
Caligula
Christology, high (first letter): and exhortation concerning day of the Lord and unbelievers; exhortations concerning believers who have died ; prayer report ; praying to God and “God’s Son,” ; the salutation and the church as “in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,”
Christology, high (second letter) ; and authorship issue; the Benediction; the disruptive-idle and the captatio benevolentiae ; the “when” of the day of the Lord and concluding prayer
Church leaders, attitudes toward (summary exhortation of first letter); admonition to live in peace with each other; holding in high regard “in love,” ; nominal participles identifying leaders by their activities ; “those who admonish you,” ; “those who care for you in the Lord,” ; “those who work hard among you” (laborers)
Closing Greetings and Final Grace (first letter); asking the believers to pray for their brothers and sisters ; charge that the letter should be read to “all the brothers and sisters,” ; Christianized concluding “grace,” ; friendship motif; imperative to greet God’s people “with a holy kiss,” ; Paul’s reluctance to conclude the letter; shift from first person plural to singular ; vocative “brothers and sisters,”
Closing Greeting (second letter)
Concluding Grace (first letter)
Concluding Grace (second letter) ; the concluding “you all,”
Conversion of the Thessalonians and Following Christ (first letter’s narrative part 1); designation of Christ as “Son” raised from the dead ; as early Gentile converts ; “election,” ; encouragement in the midst of suffering/persecution ; the experience of joy and suffering (and the Holy Spirit); imitation motif ; and Paul’s Spirit-empowered preaching; phrase “our gospel,” ; “power,” ; reminder of Paul’s teaching/ministry ; reminder of their experience of conversion; reminder that the message of the gospel is truth accompanied by experienced reality ; the Thessalonians’ following Christ as becoming well known to others; vocative “brothers and sisters,” ; “with power, with the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction,”
Corinth, city of; Paul’s persecution and trials in; Timothy’s return to ; and writing of first letter
Cynic philosophers
Daniel, Book of: the “Rebel” (“the man of lawlessness”) of second letter; “son of man” and first letter
Dating of first letter
Dating of second letter
Day of the Lord, the “when” of (second letter); applicability to contemporary church; “as though through us,” ; concept of “good deeds,” ; concluding exhortation ; concluding prayer ; concluding Thanksgiving ; and condemnation ; the content of Paul’s request ; and day/night themes in first letter; difficulties for the reader/interpreter; distinction between God’s love and Christ’s love; and the divine response (God’s activity); encouragement to the Thessalonians ; and “firstfruits,” ; and the “glory” of Jesus Christ; and Greek word “rebellion” (apostasia); the issue presented (and the misinformation); Kyrios as Jesus; language of Septuagint; on the love of God; on the misinformation as “deceit,” ; and Paul’s eschatological outlook; and Paul’s high Christology; Paul’s intention to reassure the believers ; the “Rebel” and what is “holding back” his appearance ; the “Rebel” (“man of lawlessness”) and general rebellion ; the “Rebel’s” coming and those who will perish; and Roman Empire context; and Satan’s influence; and signs and wonders of “falsehood” (miracles) ; “Spirit” as “prophetic utterance,” ; teaching the Thessalonians things they already know; “the mystery of lawlessness is already at work,” ; “the mystery of lawlessness” itself ; vocative “brothers and sisters,” ; the way things will be when the Rebel appears (just before the Parousia); what holds back that day; what will precede that day; what will take place on that day; why the believers should not be deceived
Day of the Lord (exhortations of first letter concerning); Christ as Kyrios (Lord); contemporary use of; “day of the Lord,” ; “encourage one another” and “build each other up,” ; “for obtaining salvation,” ; God’s destiny to which people are “appointed,” ; and how believers should live in the present; how this passage differs from previous passage; “just in fact as you are doing” (concluding affirmation); language of day/night and awake/sleeping and sobriety /drunkenness; metaphor of soldier outfitted for combat and “hope of salvation,” ; and Old Testament prophetic tradition ; Paul’s efforts to clarify misinformation in second letter; Paul’s high Christology; and the purpose of Christ’s death as “for us,” ; as reassurance that it does not pose threat to them; as reminder about things the Thessalonians already know; and the Thessalonian believers; “thief in the night” imagery ; “times and seasons,” ; and unbelievers; and the unexpected nature of the Lord’s coming ; the “whether” clauses
Deuteronomy: blessing of Benjamin ; and Paul’s admonitions concerning believers who have died; and prayer report of first letter; Shema; Yahweh’s self-revelation to Israel
Disruptive-idle (first letter): how the idle “walk,” ; the imposition on their neighbors; summary exhortation directed toward the ataktoi. See also Working with one’s hands (exhortations of first letter)
Disruptive-idle (second letter) ; adverb to loipon (“finally”) ; affirmation and prayer; affirmation of faithfulness of Christ to protect Paul from the evil one ; always do good (doing the right thing); applicability to multicultural world; ataktos; and authorship/forgery theory; the captatio benevolentiae; and “Christ’s perseverance,” ; and contemporary churches; deliberate intertextual use of 1 Chronicles ; exhortations directly to; exhortations to the rest (the community of believers); exhortation to imitate Paul (Paul as model) ; God as theos and Christ as Kyrios ; Greek word hoti ; the issue and exhortation repeated ; the issue presented ; language of Septuagint; living or being “in a state of quietness,” ; as not an eschatological exhortation; occasion for the passage ; Paul on own reasons for choosing to work; Paul on working with his hands; Paul’s confidence in his Thessalonian friends; Paul’s high Christology ; Paul’s request for prayer on his behalf; Paul’s surprising command; Paul’s wordplay; pistis (“faith”); prayer on behalf of the gospel ; prayer that Paul and his companions be delivered from “wicked and evil people,” ; repetition from first letter; shunning the disobedient ; and the “traditions” Paul already taught the Thessalonians; vocative “brothers and sisters,” ; “the word of the Lord,” ; and “working night and day,” ; and Yahweh’s self-revelation to Israel in Deuteronomy