Falsehood, signs and wonders of
“Faith” of the Thessalonians (and first letter); encouragement with regard to/through; sending Timothy to find out about; sending Timothy to strengthen ; supplying what is lacking in ; Timothy’s return with message of; “work of faith,”
Falsehood, signs and wonders of
1 Thessalonians (overview): authorship/ writers; city of Corinth ; city of Thessalonica (Saloniki) and its Christian community; concluding matters; contrast to typical threefold salutations of Greco-Roman period letters; dating; Gentile converts; Kyrios as Yahweh as Jesus ; Kyrios (Christ) ; Paul’s apostolic authority; and Paul’s eschatological outlook ; Paul’s high Christology ; Paul’s reluctance to end the letter; place of writing ; the proposed occasion of the writing; the recipients/ audience; reminders about what the audience has already been taught/ already knows; Theos (God); the Thessalonians’ persecution/suffering ; vocative “brothers and sisters,”
Friendship motifs: first letter ; second letter