1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 Thessalonians 1:3 faith... love... hope. A common Pauline pattern (see 1 Thessalonians 5:8; Romans 5:2; 1 Corinthians 13:13; Galatians 5:5; Ephesians 4:2). The prominent final position here belongs to hope. This seems fitting in a letter so concerned with the end times (1 Thessalonians 1:10; 1 Thessalonians 2:12, 1 Thessalonians 2:19; 1 Thessalonians 3:13; 1 Thessalonians 4:13; 1 Thessalonians 5:1, 1 Thessalonians 5:23).

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