Volume IV
The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians.
With John Brown’s marginal references, notes and reflections · Vol. IV, p. ?
This, like the former epistle, appears to have been written, not from Athens, according to the unauthorized note at the end of both, but from Corinth. It evidently was written soon after, and with the view of correcting a misapprehension of some expressions in the former epistle. Twice (1 Th. 4. 15, 17) the apostle had spoken in such a manner of 'the day of the Lord,' that they had concluded it was just at hand. This impression would appear to have led to such a cessation from secular duties as would soon have produced want in families, and have exposed the Christians to the ridicule of the Jews and heathens. The apostle, therefore, writes to rectify this error, while he labours to strengthen their faith and hope under existing persecutions. The epistle contains evident references to the following portions both of the Old and New Testaments:—Ex. 7. 11, 12; 8. 18; 9. 11; Mat. 16. 14; Ac. 14. 22; 2 Pe. 1. 20, 21. C.