476 Or a Delnier Foster 



No one denies that I Thessalonians came from the " circle of 

 Pauhne ideas," yet of all the words Bigg cites, not one is found in 

 that generally accepted Epistle. They also appear in other Epistles 

 so rarely that the argument is absolutely worthless. 



One is puzzled to know how the same author can advance, as 

 an argument against the Pauline influence upon our Epistle, the 

 statement that " we do not find, in I Peter, BixaioOv or its family." 

 True, the verbal form is not to be found in I Peter, neither is it 

 to be found in eight of the Pauline Epistles. Hence from his 

 premise these are not Pauline. On the other hand, if we may 

 consider the kindship of "hixcciMC,, Bixaioo-uvTj, and ^ixcaoc, not too 

 distant to belong to the household of Bixaiouv, we shall be required 

 to conclude Professor Bigg had incidentally overlooked many of 

 the references, since our author employs Bixauo? once (2 ; 23), Bi- 

 xaiocruvYj twice (2 ; 24, 3 ; 14), and Btxaio? three times (3 ; 12, 18, 

 4; 18). 



Bigg notes (Com. p. 4—5) that " very few connecting particles 

 occur " in the Epistle. He then gives the following examples : 



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