The last two chapters of First Thessalonians are concerned with how Christians should live in the light of Christ’s certain return. This passage is bracketed by a call to sanctification (4:3, 5:23). Justification happens once and for all, but sanctification is progressive. The word Paul uses to describe this continual growth in Christlikeness is mallon, “more and more” (4:1, 10).…
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