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Linguistic support for a one-event second coming are in the words "meet" and "coming" in 1 Thessalonians 4. The meet in 1 Thessalonians 4:17 and in Matthew 25:1 (a second coming parable) refers to the custom of people going out to meet a dignitary as he was approaching their city before he got there, and accompanying or welcoming him back to ...
The Koine Greek of 1 Thessalonians 4:17 uses the verb form ἁρπαγησόμεθα (harpagēsometha), which means "we shall be caught up" or "we shall be taken away". The dictionary form of this Greek verb is harpazō (ἁρπάζω). [10] This use is also seen in such texts as Acts 8:39, [11] 2 Corinthians 12:2–4, [12] and Revelation 12:5 ...
1 Thessalonians 3:2 και συνεργον του θεου εν τω ευαγγελιω του Χριστου (Gods co-worker in the Gospel of Christ) – D Byz f m vg syr cop και συνεργον εν τω ευαγγελιω του Χριστου (co-worker in the Gospel of Christ) – B 1962
~ 1 Thessalonians 4:16; In one single event, the saved who are alive at Christ's coming will be caught up together with the resurrected to meet the Lord in the air. [111] "Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord." ~ 1 ...
Fragments showing 1 Thessalonians 1:3–2:1 and 2:6–13 on Papyrus 65, from the third century. The First Epistle to the Thessalonians [a] is a Pauline epistle of the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The epistle is attributed to Paul the Apostle, and is addressed to the church in Thessalonica, in modern-day Greece.
[2] Fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls (3rd century BC or later): 1QIsa a: all verses; 1QIsa b : extant verses 1–8, 20–21; 4QIsa h (4Q62): extant verses 15–16; There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE.
Regarding the above passage, Matthew Henry comments: Here you have, 1. A recommendation of God's ordinance of marriage, that it is honourable in all, … 2. A dreadful but just censure of impurity and lewdness." [37] John Wesley believed this scripture and the sure judgment of God, even though adulterers "frequently escape the sentence of men ...
In recent times, criticism of Pauline authorship was raised by H. J. Holtzmann and G. Hollmann (see above). Much of the dispute concerns the linguistic similarity between 1 Thessalonians and 2 Thessalonians. For example, 1 Thessalonians 2:9 is almost identical to 2 Thessalonians 3:8.