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The

Expositor's Bible

Edited by

W. Robertson Nicoll, D.D., LL.D.


THE EPISTLES

TO THE THESSALONIANS

 BY THE
 REV. JAMES DENNEY, B.D.

 HODDER & STOUGHTON
 NEW YORK
 GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY




CONTENTS.


_THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE THESSALONIANS._

                                                                  PAGE
 I.
 THE CHURCH OF THE THESSALONIANS                                     3

 II.
 THE THANKSGIVING                                                   21

 III.
 THE SIGNS OF ELECTION                                              37

 IV.
 CONVERSION                                                         53

 V.
 APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA                                              69

 VI.
 IMPEACHMENT OF THE JEWS                                            83

 VII.
 ABSENCE AND LONGING                                                99

 VIII.
 LOVE AND PRAYERS                                                  117

 IX.
 PERSONAL PURITY                                                   135

 X.
 CHARITY AND INDEPENDENCE                                          151

 XI.
 THE DEAD IN CHRIST                                                169

 XII.
 THE DAY OF THE LORD                                               185

 XIII.
 RULERS AND RULED                                                  201

 XIV.
 THE STANDING ORDERS OF THE GOSPEL                                 217

 XV.
 THE SPIRIT                                                        233

 XVI.
 CONCLUSION                                                        251


_THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE THESSALONIANS._

 I.
 SALUTATION AND THANKSGIVING                                       271

 II.
 SUFFERING AND GLORY                                               289

 III.
 THE MAN OF SIN                                                    305

 IV.
 THE RESTRAINT AND ITS REMOVAL                                     323

 V.
 THE THEOLOGY OF PAUL                                              341

 VI.
 MUTUAL INTERCESSION                                               359

 VII.
 THE CHRISTIAN WORTH OF LABOUR                                     375

 VIII.
 FAREWELL                                                          391




I.

THE CHURCH OF THE THESSALONIANS.


 "Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came
 to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews: and Paul, as his
 custom was, went in unto them, and for three sabbath days reasoned
 with them from the scriptures, opening and alleging, that it behoved
 the Christ to suffer, and to rise again from the dead; and that this
 Jesus, whom, _said he_, I proclaim unto you, is the Christ. And
 some of them were persuaded, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and
 of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a
 few. But the Jews, being moved with jealousy, took unto them certain
 vile fellows of the rabble, and gathering a crowd, set the city on an
 uproar; and assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them
 forth to the people. And when they found them not, they dragged Jason
 and certain brethren before the rulers of the city, crying, These
 that have turned the world upside down are come hither also; whom
 Jason hath received: and these all act contrary to the decrees of
 Caesar, saying that there is another king, _one_ Jesus. And they
 troubled the multitude and the rulers of the city, when they heard
 these things. And when they had taken security from Jason and the
 rest, they let them go."--ACTS xvii. 1-9 (R.V.).

 "Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the
 Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to
 you and peace."--1 THESS. i. 1 (R.V.).

Thessalonica, now called Saloniki, was in the first century of our era
a large and flourishing city. It was situated at