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Milligan on Paul's Epistle to the Thessalonians Milligan on Thessalonians
Paul's Encouragement; Suffering for Faith.Chapter 2
The Man of Lawlessness; End Times.Chapter 3
Exhortations on Work and Conduct; Final Greetings.
- 2 Thessalonians
by George Milligan
1:1, 1:2. ADDRESS AND GREETING.
1:3.–2:17. HISTORICAL AND DOCTRINAL.
1:3–12. Thanksgiving and Prayer for the Thessalonians’ State.
Following upon the Address comes the customary Thanksgiving which, while again closely recalling the Thanksgiving of the First Epistle, presents certain independent features. Thus special stress is now laid on the progress of the Thessalonians’ faith and love with the consequent boasting of the writers on their behalf (vv. 3, 4), while the mention of the afflictions from which at the time the Thessalonian Church was suffering is a natural starting-point for an emphatic appeal to the righteous judgment of God, by which the persecuted will be recompensed and the persecutors condemned (vv. 5–10). The whole is crowned by a characteristic reference to the Apostles’ continual intercession for their converts (vv. 11, 12).
Works cited in Chapter 1
WH. WH. or WH.2=The New Testament in the original Greek, by B. F. Westcott and F. J. A. Hort. Vol. 1. Text; vol. 2. Introduction and Appendix containing Notes on Select Readings &c. Revised Editions. London, 1898 and 1896.
WM. WM.=A Treatise on the Grammar of New Testament Greek, by G. B. Winer, tr. and enlarged by W. F. Moulton. 8th Eng. Edit. Edinburgh, 1877.
Blass Blass=Grammar of New Testament Greek, by F. Blass. Eng. Tr. by H. St John Thackeray. 2nd Edit. London, 1905.
Kühner Kühner3=Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, by R. Kühner. Elementar- und Formenlehre, ed. F. Blass. 2 vols. Hanover, 1890, 1892. Satzlehre, ed. B. Gerth. 2 vols. 1898, 1904.
SH. SH.=A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, by W. Sanday and A. C. Headlam. 5th Edit. Edinburgh, 1902.
Dalman Dalman Worte=Die Worte Jesu, by G. Dalman. Leipzig, 1898. Eng. Tr. by D. M. Kay. Edinburgh, 1902.
Aristeas Aristeas=Aristeae ad Philocratem Epistula, ed. P. Wendland. Leipzig, 1900.
Moulton Moulton Prolegg.=A Grammar of New Testament Greek, by J. H. Moulton. Vol. 1. Prolegomena. 2nd Edit. Edinburgh, 1906.
Mayser Mayser=Grammatik der Griechischen Papyri aus der Ptolemäerzeit, by E. Mayser. Leipzig, 1906.
Volz Volz Jüd. Eschat.=Jüdische Eschatologie von Daniel his Akiba, by P. Volz. Tübingen, 1903.
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B.D.B. B.D.B.=A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, by Drs Brown, Driver, and Briggs. Oxford, 1906.
Hastings’ Hastings’ D.B.=Dictionary of the Bible, edited by James Hastings. 5 vols. Edinburgh, 1898–1904.
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Reitzenstein Reitzenstein Poimandres=Poimandres: Studien zur Griechisck-Ägyptischen und Frühchristlichen Literatur, by R. Reitzenstein. Leipzig, 1904.
