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Thessalonians, Calvin’s Commentaries, trans. Ross Mackenzie, ed. D.W. and TE Torrance (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1973), p. 371. . There are three present tense participles (labor, lead, and admonish) pre ceded by one definite article (tous) and joined by the repetition of the conjunction “and” (kat). James Denney, The Epistles to the Thessalonians, The Expositors’ Bible (Cincinnati: Jennings & Graham, n.d.), p. 205. Bo Reicke, “prohistemi,” in Theological Dictionary of the New Testa ment, 6 (1968): 701,702. E. K. Simpson, Pastoral Epistles (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1954), p. 77. John R.W. Stott, The Gospel and the End ofTime: The Message of 1 & 2 Thessalonians (Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1991), pp. 120,121. Denney, The Epistles to the Thessalonians, pp. 207, 208. George G. Findlay, The Epistles to the Thessalonians, The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1908), p. 117. William Hendriksen, Exposition of 1 and 11 Thessalonians, New Testa ment Commentary (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1955), p. 135. E]. Bricknell, The First and Second Epistles to the Thessalonians, Westminster Commentaries (London: Methuen, 1932), p. 59. Paul E. Billheimer, Love Covers (Fort Washington: Christian Literature Crusade, 1981), p. 34. Francis Schaefler, The Mark ofthe Christian (Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1970), p. 22. Leon Morris, Testaments ofLove (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1981), p. 205. Leon Morris, The First and Second Epistles to the Thessalonians, The New International Commentary of the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1959), p. 167. Fenton John Anthony Hort, The Christian Ecclesia (1897; repr. ed. Lon don: Macmillan, 1914), p. 123. John Eadie, A Commentary on the Greek Text of the Epistles of Paul to the Thessalonians, ed. William Young (1877; repr. ed. Minneapolis: James Publications, 1976), p. 196. Ernest Best, “Bishops and Deacons: Philippians 1 2 1 in Studia Evangelica, ed. EL. Cross (Berlin: Akademia Verlag, 1968), 4: 371. Polycarp, Philippians, 5,6. Ignatius, Polycarp, 1,1;5,2;6, 1.

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