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1 Thessalonians 1

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^{1 Thessalonians 1:1 [1]} I.e. a person in bondage. One who belongs to another.

^{1 Thessalonians 1:1 [2]} In ancient Greece the word translated as "good news" or "gospel" was used to denote, among other things, success in a battle.

^{1 Thessalonians 1:13 [3]} Lit brethren, includes all born-again believers: men, women, and children.

^{1 Thessalonians 1:21 [4]} Anyone who attributes the existence of the world to chance or to a different creator is already guilty of deliberately rejecting God, because to deny the true God one must set aside common sense.

^{1 Thessalonians 1:21 [5]} Lit glorify.

^{1 Thessalonians 1:23 [6]} Paul's indictment of idolatry (images) is logical and devastating. He emphasizes that idols are essentially copies of living creatures, whether in human form (as, for example, in ancient Greek myth) or otherwise (as in Egyptian idolatry and metaphysics). These lifeless images are clearly powerless, and even the living creatures which they supposedly represent are either nonexistent hybrids and monsters, or else ordinary creatures on earth who could hardly create so much as a grain of sand.

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