Corpus-Paul

["Jim Hester" <hester AT jasper.uor.edu>]

Thanks, Jeff, for helping me understand your argument.  I had, in fact, not
taken note of your reference to 2:15.  Let me respond to the following:

> The aorist passive verb puts the reception
> of tradition in the past tense, and so refers to a prior letter (singular,
> not plural), and not to 2 Thess itself.

Acknowledging that I am taking a kind of devil's advocate position here,
I'll simply point out that Wanamaker believes that 2:15 can refer to
reception of 2 Thess, for reasons that are embedded in his argument for the
priority of 2 Thess in the sequence.  And, while not a standard use, the
aorist passive here could be a kind of epistolary aorist.

Okay, enough of that from me!
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