Pros Thessalonikeis; Letters to the Thessalonians

Japanese: テサロニケ人への手紙 - テサロニケびとへのてがみ（英語表記）Pros Thessalonikeis; Letters to the Thessalonians

Two letters in the New Testament written by Paul from Corinth, Greece, to the group of Christians in Thessalonica around 50 AD. They are also called the Epistles of the Thessalonians. For convenience, they are divided into the first and second letters. They are considered to be the earliest surviving letters of Paul, and therefore the first surviving Christian records. During his second missionary journey, Paul stopped in Thessalonica with Silvanus and Timothy to preach the gospel, but the situation became unfavorable and he fled to Berea. In the first letter, based on a report from Timothy who was sent to Thessalonica, Paul first defends his own gospel work, then praises the faith and love of the believers, and further exhorts them to comfort one another with the hope of salvation, respect their overseers, walk the path of faith, and wait for the day of the Lord, which will suddenly come. The second book also calls for strengthening one's faith and working hard in one's daily work before the coming Day of the Lord, but some believe that the author was not Paul because of his interpretation of the eschatology.

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Japanese:

50年頃，パウロがギリシアのコリントからテサロニケのキリスト教徒の集団にあてて書いた新約聖書中の2通の手紙。『テサロニケ書』ともいう。便宜上第1，第2に区別する。現存するパウロの最初期の手紙，したがって現存するキリスト教の最初の記録とされている。パウロは第2回伝道旅行の途次シルワノ，テモテとともにテサロニケに寄って福音を伝えたが，情勢が不利となりベレヤに避難した。第1書では，テサロニケに派遣されたテモテからの報告に基づいて，まずみずからの福音活動への弁護を行い，次に信者たちの信仰と愛をたたえ，さらに救いの望みをもって互いに慰め合い，監督者を敬愛して信仰の道を歩み，突然に訪れる主の日を待つべきことを説いている。第2書にも，きたるべき主の日を前に一層信仰を固くし日々の仕事に励むべきことがいわれているが，終末の解釈などから著者をパウロでないとする見方もある。

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