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I Thessalonians 2. 13–16: The Fate of the Unbelieving Jews

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

G. E. Okeke
G. E. Okeke
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Nigeria, Africa
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New Testament Studies , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , October 1980 , pp. 127 - 136
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4 Baur, op. cit. p. 88.

5 Extent of interpolation: (a) 2. 16c only, so Albrecht Ritschl, Spitta, Pfleiderer, Teichmann, and Moffatt, J., who cites the foregoing scholars, Introduction to the Literature of the New Testament (3rd ednEdinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1927), p. 73Google Scholar; so also Bailey, J., Interpreter's Bible, 11, 280Google Scholar. (b) vv. 15–16; so P. Schmiedel, in Pearson, loc. cit. p. 80; Schmithals, Paul and the Gnostics, pp. 127, 180. (c), vv. 14–16. So Holtmann cited by Frame, J. E., Thessalonians, p. 109.Google Scholar

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11 Frame, J. E. (Thessalonians, p. 114Google Scholar) suggests that έϕθασεν is employed proleptically, as is natural in prophetic utterances.

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16 έϕθακεν, 3rd person sing. Perf. Indicative Active of ϕθάνω, is supported by B and D.

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27 Rom. 9. 25–33. God's merciful election is purposed to be a means of reaching out to those who are without the light of God's love and righteousness. So Paul considers his mission among the Gentiles as God's means of saving the Jews who are in the darkness of unenlightened zeal (Rom. 10. 2).

28 Gaston, L., No Stone, p. 457.Google Scholar

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32 See Hyldahl, N., ‘Jesus og Jøderne ifølge 1 Thess. 2, 14–16’ (‘Jesus and the Jews according to I Thess. 2. 14–16’), Svensk Exeg. Års. 37–38 (1972–1973), 238–54Google Scholar. He argues unpersuasively that I Thess. 2. 16 is not in conflict with Rom. 11 in that the later passage teaches that only a miracle can save Israel.