Webeach modern translation has divided and summarized the paragraphs. Every paragraph has one central topic, truth, or thought. Each version encapsulates that. Webyet we can gain significant historical and theological insight from these first ten verses of what we know as 1 thessalonians. Two points are especially helpful to. Webfirst thessalonians it is generally supposed that paul’s first epistle to the thessalonians is the first book of the new testament that was ever written. 1 the. He preached in the same church as c. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Yet most people today have never heard of john gill. Webin this commentary andy johnson engages with the developing interpretive framework of missional hermeneutics to present a theological interpretation of 1 & 2. Webpaul uses two words for receiving the word: “receive” and “accepted. ” “received” is paralambano, which means “to receive from another,” but it is especially used in the.
