1 Thessalonians 1:7. Ye became an ensample. The whole congregation is regarded as a unit; the word being in the singular, according to the Vatican MS. ‘The true followers became themselves in turn patterns for others.'

All that believe, i.e. all the believers, whether their conversion preceded or followed that of the Thessalonians.

In Macedonia and Achaia. These two provinces at this time included the whole of Greece, the former being the northern, and the latter the southern portion of it.

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