After the superscription of the apostle, contained in the two first verses, Paul commends the steadfastness of the Thessalonians, and comforts them against tribulations with the coming of JESUS CHRIST to judgment, for the punishment of the persecutors, and for their deliverances, which he does in the first chapter. Afterwards he warns them that the day of judgment shall not come so soon, but that the falling away must come first, and antichrist be revealed, whose rise, powerful deception and ruin he describes, with a new exhortation to steadfastness in the faith received, unto the end of the second chapter. Finally he exhorts them to a christian conduct, and particularly to prayer for him, to mutual love, and to avoiding and admonishing of disorderly, idle persons, whom he reproves by his own example, and earnestly threatens unto the sixteenth verse of the third chapter. And he concludes the epistle in the three last verses with a prayer to God for them, and with the usual apostolic salutation.