St. Paul's epistles to the Thessalonians (Evangelical masterworks)

Messrs Macmillan and Co., has been reproduced here exactly as it stands in the latest authoritative revision. Full note has, however, been taken of all variants of importance, and for the convenience of students a brief summary has been given of the Authorities for the Text in Introduction vn. In Introduction viii. there will be found a selected list of the more important Commentaries on the Epistles, and of various Monographs dealing with special points raised by them. My obligations to these are undoubtedly greater than I have been able to acknowledge ;but I have not thought it advisable to overload my Notes by discussing or quoting the views of others, except where this seemed to be really demanded. An exception has been made in the case of the rich and terse comments of the patristic writers, and such later expositors as Calvin and Bengel: and the Latin translations of Beza, Estius, and others have been freely cited, wherever they threw light on the exact meaning of the original. In addition, moreover, to the ordinary sources of help, there are two which have been so largely used in the following work that they may be specially mentioned. The publication within recent years of large collections of Inscriptions and Papyri has now made possible a thorough re-study of the Pauline language in the light of contemporary documents. Upon the general questions that are thereby raised, such as the disappearance of much that used to be known as Biblical Greek, and the existence or non-existence of Semitisms in the Greek New Testament, this is not the place to enter: they will be found fully stated in the writings of such experts as Professors Deissmann and Thumb, and Dr J. H. Moulton, and, from a more conservative point of view, of the lamented Dr Friedrich Blass. All that we are meanwhile concerned with is the light thrown upon St Paul sletters by the constant occ
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