Because in the fore pistle he had
sayde that the last daye shuld
come sodenly / the Thessalonians
thought that it shuld haue
come shortlye. Wherfore in
this epistle he declareth him selfe.
And in the fyrst Chapter he c&obar;forteth them
with the euerlastinge rewarde of their fayth ∧
pacyence in sofferinge for the gospell / ∧ with
the punyshement of their persecutours in euerlastinge
payne.
In the seconde he sheweth that the last daye
shuld not come / tyll there were fyrst a departinge
(as some men thynke) from vnder the obedyence
of the Emperour of Rome / and that Antichrist
shuld set vp him selfe in the same place /
as God: and deceaue the vnthankfull worlde
with false doctrine / and with false ∧ lyenge myracles
wrought by the workinge of Satan / vntill
Christ shuld come ∧ flee him with his glorious
commynge and spirituall preachinge of
the worde of God.
In the thyrde he geueth them exhortacion ∧
warneth th&ebar; to rebuke the ydle that wolde not
laboure with their handes / and auoyde their c&obar;panie
/ yf they wolde not mende.
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¶ The seconde Epistle of S. Paul to the Tessalonyans.
Tyndale [1534], ¶ The newe Testament / dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke by Willyam Tindale: and fynesshed in the yere of oure Lorde God A. M. D. ∧. xxxiiij. in the moneth of Nouember (, ANWERP) [word count] [B03000].
