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Before the Apostle Paul wrote Romans or Ephesians, he sent a pair of letters to a new church in Thessalonica. Three concerns governed these letters: What makes a healthy church? How should we view God’s Word? What does the ideal Christian life look like? Richard D. Phillips considers Paul’s foundational emphases in a scholarly, pastoral, and practical manner. He also explores Paul’s end-times...

The term for Christ’s coming is parousia, which was often used of the visits of kings or emperors to cities within their realm, which was a source of great anxiety for those concerned. We know of examples in which cities receiving the emperor were expected to provide a laurel crown of gold for him to wear. This could be the sense in which the apostle speaks of his converts as his “crown of boasting” at Christ’s coming (v. 19). In this way, Paul was “anticipating glorying in the successful completion
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