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- ↑ Fitzmyer, Joseph J. (1998). The Anchor Bible: The Acts of the Apostles . New York: Doubleday. p. 564. ISBN 0-385-49020-8.
- ↑ Cheyne, Thomas Kelly; Black, John Sutherland (1903). Encyclopædia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and Religious History, the Archæology, Geography, and Natural History of the Bible, Volume 4. Toronto: George N Morang & Company Ltd. pp. 4514–4521.
- ↑ Smith, Barry D. "1st Letter To The Thessalonians". www.mycrandall.ca. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
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