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title: "Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible · Volume 2: Lamentations to Revelation"
author: "Adam Clarke"
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cite: "Adam Clarke, Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible · Volume 2: Lamentations to Revelation, section 614. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/adam-clarke-commentary-volume-2-lamentations-to-revelation/614/"
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# Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible · Volume 2: Lamentations to Revelation

*Adam Clarke*

Clarke's learned notes on the Hebrew and Greek, verse by verse, from Genesis to Revelation: volume 2 of 2.

## 614. 2 Thessalonians · 5 of 5

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[¶0] The subscriptions to this epistle are various in the MSS. and Versions. The latter are as follows: -

[¶1] The Second Epistle to the Thessalonians was written from Athens. - Common Greek text.

[¶2] The Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, which was written at Laodicea in Pisidia, was sent by the hands of Tychicus. - Syriac.

[¶3] The end of the Epistle; and it was written at Athens. - Arabic.

[¶4] To the Thessalonians. - Aethiopic.

[¶5] Written from Athens, and sent by Silvanus and Timotheus. - Coptic.

[¶6] No subscription in the Vulgate.

[¶7] Written at Corinth. - Author of the Synopsis. - sent by Titus and Onesimus. - Latin Prologue.

[¶8] The Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, written from Rome. - No. 71, a MS. of the Vatican library, written about the eleventh century.

[¶9] The chief of the MSS. either have no subscription, or agree with some of the above versions.

[¶10] That the epistle was neither written at Athens, Laodicea, nor Rome, has been sufficiently proved; and that it was written, as well as the first, at Corinth, is extremely probable. See the preface, and what has been said on the preceding epistle.

[¶11] I have often had occasion to observe that the subscriptions at the end of the sacred books are not of Divine origin; they are generally false; and yet some have quoted them as making a part of the sacred test, and have adduced them in support of some favourite opinions.

[¶12] Finished correcting this epistle for a new edition, the shortest day in 1831. - A. C.