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Translated from the Latin Vulgate
Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,and Other Editions in Divers Languages
THE OLD TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Douay
A.D. 1609 & 1610
and
THE NEW TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Rheims
A.D. 1582
With Annotations
The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared withthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard ChallonerA.D. 1749-1752
Thessalonica was the capital of Macedonia, in which St. Paul, havingpreached the Gospel, converted some Jews and a great number of theGentiles: but the unbelieving Jews, envying his success, raised such acommotion against him that he, and his companion, Sylvanus were obligedto quit the city. Afterwards he went to Athens, where he heard that theconverts in Thessalonica were under a severe persecution, ever since hisdeparture; and lest they should lose their fortitude, he sent Timothy tostrengthen and comfort them in their sufferings. In the meantime St.Paul came to Corinth, where he wrote this first Epistle, and also thesecond to the Thessalonians, both in the same year, being the nineteenthafter our Lord's Ascension. These are the first of his Epistles in theorder of time.
1 Thessalonians Chapter 1
He gives thanks for the grace bestowed on the Thessalonians.
1:1. Paul and Sylvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians:in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:2. Grace be to you and peace. We give thanks to God always for youall: making a remembrance of you in our prayers without ceasing,
1:3. Being mindful of the work of your faith and labour and charity: andof the enduring of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and ourFather.
1:4. Knowing, brethren, beloved of God, your election:
1:5. For our gospel hath not been unto you in word only, but in poweralso: and in the Holy Ghost and in much fulness, as you know what mannerof men we have been among you for your sakes.
1:6. And you became followers of us and of the Lord: receiving the wordin much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
1:7. So that you were made a pattern to all that believe in Macedoniaand in Achaia.
1:8. For from you was spread abroad the word of the Lord not only inMacedonia and in Achaia but also in every place: your faith which istowards God, is gone forth, so that we need not to speak any thing.
1:9. For they themselves relate of us, what manner of entering in we hadunto you: and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living andtrue God.
1:10. And to wait for his Son from heaven (whom he raised up from thedead), Jesus, who hath delivered us from the wrath to come.
1 Thessalonians Chapter 2
The sincerity of the apostle's preaching the gospel to them and of theirreceiving it.
2:1. For yourselves know, brethren, our entrance in unto you, that itwas not in vain:
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