Tag: Pauline epistles
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Background to 1 & 2 Thessalonians
Along with Galatians, First Thessalonians is one of the earliest of Paul’s letters, written roughly twenty years after the Resurrection of Jesus. It was addressed to believers in Thessalonica, a prominent city of about two hundred thousand people in Paul’s day, known today as Thessaloniki. After his remarkable deliverance from prison in Philippi (Acts 16),…