2 Thessalonians
The Second Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians, often
referred to as Second Thessalonians and written 2
Thessalonians, is a book from the New Testament of the
Christian Bible. It is traditionally attributed to Paul,
because it begins, "Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the
church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord
Jesus ...
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The first epistle to the Thessalonians was the first of all
Paul's epistles. It was in all probability written
from Corinth,
where he abode a "long time" (Acts 18:11, 18), early
in the
period of his residence there, about the end of A.D.
52.
The occasion of its being written was the return of
Timotheus
from Macedonia, bearing tidings from ...
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SECOND EPISTLE. Genuineness. Polycarp (Ep. ad Philipp. 11)
alludes to 1 Thessalonians 1:4; 1 Thessalonians 3:15, and so
attests it. Justin Martyr (Dial.Trypho, 193, sec. 32)
alludes to 2 Thessalonians 2:3. Irenaeus (iii. 7, section 2)
quotes 2 Thessalonians 2:8. Clement of Alexandria quotes 2
Thessalonians 3:2 as Paul's words (Strom. i. 5, sec...
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LITERATURE
I. Importance of Studying 1 Thessalonians and 2
Thessalonians Together.
Those who hold to the Pauline authorship of the Epistle
unite in ascribing it to a time but little subsequent to the
writing of the First Letter. It is simply a second
prescription for the same case, made after discovering that
some certain stubborn sympt...
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appears to have been written from Corinth not very long
after the first, for Silvanus and Timotheus were still with
St. Paul. 2Th 1:1 In the former letter we saw chiefly the
outpouring of strong personal affection, occasioned by the
renewal of the apostle's intercourse with the Thessalonians,
and the doctrinal and hortatory portions are there ...
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