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<P><FONT SIZE=+3>First Thessalonians</FONT>
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<BR>Completed by D<FONT SIZE=-1>ANIEL</FONT> M<FONT SIZE=-1>AYO</FONT>.</P>
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<P><B>AN</B></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+2>EXPOSITION,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+1>W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E R V A T I O N S,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=-1>OF THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE</FONT></P>
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T<FONT SIZE=-1>HESSALONICA</FONT>
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was formerly the metropolis of Macedonia; it is now called
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<I>Salonichi,</I> and is the best peopled, and one of the best towns
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for commerce, in the Levant. The apostle Paul, being diverted from his
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design of going into the provinces of Asia, properly so called, and
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directed after an extraordinary manner to preach the gospel in
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Macedonia
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ac+16:9,10">Acts xvi. 9, 10</A>),
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in obedience to the call of God went from Troas to Samothracia, thence
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to Neapolis, and thence to Philippi, where he had good success in his
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ministry, but met with hard usage, being cast into prison with Silas
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his companion in travel and labour, from which being wonderfully
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delivered, they comforted the brethren there, and departed. Passing
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through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where the
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apostle planted a church that consisted of some believing Jews and many
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converted Gentiles,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ac+17:1-4">Acts xvii. 1-4</A>.
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But a tumult being raised in the city by the unbelieving Jews, and the
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lewd and baser sort of the inhabitants, Paul and Silas, for their
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safety, were sent away by night unto Berea, and afterwards Paul was
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conducted to Athens, leaving Silas and Timotheus behind him, but sent
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directions that they should come to him with all speed. When they came,
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Timotheus was sent to Thessalonica, to enquire after their welfare and
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to establish them in the faith
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=1Th+3:2">1 Thess. iii. 2</A>),
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and, returning to Paul while he tarried at Athens, was sent again,
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together with Silas, to visit the churches in Macedonia. So that Paul,
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being left at Athens alone
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=1Th+3:1">1 Thess. iii. 1</A>),
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departed thence to Corinth, where he continued a year and a half, in
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which time Silas and Timotheus returned to him from Macedonia
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ac+18:5">Acts xviii. 5</A>),
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and then he wrote this epistle to the church of Christ at Thessalonica,
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which, though it is placed after the other epistles of this apostle, is
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supposed to be first in time of all Paul's epistles, and to be written
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about A.D. 51. The main scope of it is to express the thankfulness of
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this apostle for the good success his preaching had among them, to
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establish them in the faith, and persuade them to a holy
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