Alfred Plummer

A Commentary on St. Paul's Second Epistle to the Thessalonians: Alfred Plummer

Under its modern name of Salonika, Thcssalonica, owing to the great war, has i Decome far more widely known than it was previously. Thousands of persons who had hitherto scarcely heard of such a place, and certainly had very vague ideas as to its geographical position, now know accurately where to find it in the map and are aware of its importance with regard to its pr ncipal surroundings. But beyond this fact of its having become a very important city, both from a military and from a political point of view, we are in no better position for understanding the condition of the place at the time when a portion of its inhabitants were a community of the deepest interest to St. Paul and multitudes of other Christians. Nor are we likely to be in a better position for so doing when the war is over. On the contrary, we shall probably find that some of the features which a few years ago were not so very different from what they may have been in his day have been either entirely obliterated or very seriously transformed and disfigured. It is true that the war has added rather considerably to our knowledge of the archaeology of the immediate neighbourhood. Some of those who have been obliged through recent events to take up the rabode there for a time have used this opportunity for making explorations in the interests of antiquarian research ;and their labours have had considerable results. We are now learning a good deal more about the early history of this interesting tract of country.
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