St Paul's Letter To Thessalonian

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The allocated passage (2 Thessalonians 3:1-16) was known to have been written by Saint Paul near the end of his second missionary journey from Corinth. Saint Paul wrote many letters that can be found in the Bible. Paul was a well-educated, leading Jew who participated in destroying the Christian church and execution of Stephen, know to be the first martyr recorded in Act 7:55-8: 4. It is believed that on his way to Damascus to imprison more Christians, he saw the Lord and began a revelation in which he changed into the Catholic faith and began to persuade Jews and Catholics to come into agreement about his life-changing realisation. Paul’s adventures through his missionary journeys are reflected in his letter to the Thessalonians. He wanted

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