Discovering St. Paul's Greece: Part 2 of 3

In Part 1, St. Paul began his travels in Greece, making his first European convert to Christianity in Philippi and establishing communities there as well as in Thessaloniki and Veria before traveling to Athens.

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The first epistle: AD c.50


Paul's first Epistle to the Thessalonians is the earliest text in the New Testament. Written on a scroll of papyrus in Greek, the language of the people he is writing to, the letter is intended for reading aloud to congregations in and around Thessalonica.

Paul begins with fraternal greetings; then he praises the Thessalonians for their devotion to God and his son Jesus; he exhorts them to be steadfast in suffering for the cause; he slips in a reminder that they must abstain from fornication; then he gives them the crucial assurance that dead Christians will enter heaven (indeed they will rise from their graves and ascend before the living at the last trump). He ends with a warning. The final moment may come at any time. Be well prepared.

MORE PROOF THAT ANCIENT MACEDONIANS WERE GREEK!

Wouldn't Paul have written to them in Slavic if they were SLAVS?!!!