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第一次较认真的研读帖撒罗尼迦前书,是在一九六六年;当时笔者从英国伦敦圣经学院毕业后刚好一年,应邀在香港基督徒学生福音团契属下的中学生基督徒团契所举办的领袖训练营(七月廿六至三十日于南丫岛举行)负责研经讲道,所讲的就是帖撒罗尼迦前书。四年后,在美国福乐神学院进修期间,选读了由新约教授夏理逊博士1讲授的“帖撒罗尼迦前后书”一科。在“中神”专职任教期间,曾于七九年冬季学期(一至三月)教授“帖撒罗尼迦前后书原文释经”一科,同时在延伸课程讲解这两卷书。过去两年,在撰写此注释的过程中,对帖撒罗尼迦前书作了比以前任何时期都较详细的研究,亦对这卷书有了进一步的认识。

帖撒罗尼迦后书跟前书的关系非常密切,这两卷书的注释通常都以一本“帖撒罗尼迦前后书注释”的形式面世。2笔者原来的计划也是这样,不过单是前书注释的数据使已足够成书,若加上后书的注释会使整本书变得太长,并且要多等至少一年才可以付梓,因此天道书楼欣然同意先出版“帖撒罗尼迦前书注释”,日后再出版后书的注释。这较不寻常的安排对笔者是很大的鼓励,为此要特别向天道书楼出版部经理高明发先生致谢,也顺便谢谢高先生以编者身份在文字润色上所给予笔者的帮助。

笔者在“中神”校本部教授“帖撒罗尼迦前后书原文释经”一科时,修读的同学只有三名!这三位校友已分别成为本院延伸部的讲师、教会牧师和大学讲师,3然而笔者未能以“重质不重量”一语自慰,除非笔者有理由相信,他们今天的成就跟他们曾修读该科的事实──活现于帖撒罗尼迦前后书的保罗,确是一位极优秀的牧者和教师──多少有点关系。这可以部份解释,为甚么笔者最近接受天道书楼一位编辑同工的访问时,曾就自己近年间撰写注释书的工作表达以下的心愿:“希望透过文字在某程度上继续﹝我﹞的‘教学’,并且把对象从一所神学院的学生扩阔至较大的范围。”与此同时,笔者也“希望透过文字使那些繁忙的教牧同工、神学生或有心追求真理的信徒能得着帮助。”4

祈盼此书蒙神恩待,以致能达到上述的双重目的。

冯荫坤谨志

一九八八年十二月十二日

香港 中国神学研究院

 

1 Dr. E.F. Harrison

2 在德文的注释书中,只是阐释前书或后书的为数颇不少(参Bruce xxix所列书目),这跟一些学者认为后书并非出自保罗手笔此看法有关。

3 笔者于七六年冬季及春季(一至六月)所教的“中级希腊文”一科,也是只有三位同学修读(其中两位已按立为牧师,现今分别从事牧会及神学院讲师之工作,另一位已于年前息了地上的劳苦)。“原文释经”一科人数最多的一次,要算八四年秋季开设的“加拉太书”,有二十二人修读。

4 天道书楼“书讯”第二十四期(一九八八年九至十月)。

 

简写表

串释              “圣经──串珠·注释本”(香港,中国神学研究院编撰,证道出版社出版;新约全书1984,旧约全书1986,新旧约全书1987)

和合              “新旧约全书”(香港圣经公会;现代标点符号新约全书1978)

思高              “圣经”(香港思高圣经学会1968)

现中              “圣经──现代中文译本”(香港圣经公会1980)

当圣              “当代圣经”(香港天道1979)

新译              “新约全书新译本”(香港中文圣经新译委员会1976)

周                周志禹着:“帖撒罗尼迦前后书讲义”(香港宣道1967)

AB                Anchor Bible

AGJU              Arbeiten zur Geschichte des Antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums

art. cit.         article cited

AV                Authorized (King James) Version

BAGD              W. Bauer - W.F. Arndt - F.W. Gingrich - F.W. Danker, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (Chicago 1979)

Barclay           William Barclay, The Letters to the Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians (rev. ed.; Philadelphia 1975)

BDF               F. Blass - A. Debrunner - R.W. Funk, A Greek Grammar of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (Chicago 1961/1967)

Best              Ernest Best, The First and Second Epistles to the Thessalonians (BNTC; London 1972/1977)

BETL              Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium

BFBS              '?????????????, ed. G.D. Kilpatrick (2nd ed.; London: British & Foreign Bible Society 1958)

BibToday          The Bible Today

BibTrans          The Bible Translator

BJRL              Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester

BNTC              Black's New Testament Commentaries

BTB               Biblical Theology Bulletin

Bruce             F.F, Bruce, 1 & 2 Thessalonians, (WBC 45; Waco1982)

Bruce I           F.F. Bruce, Paul and His Converts (London/New York 1962)

Brace II          F.F. Bruce, '1 and 2 Thessalonians', in NBCR 1154-1165

c.                circa, about

Calvin            John Calvin, The Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Romans and to the Thessalonians (E.T,; Edinburgh/London 1961)

CBC               Cambridge Bible Commentary

CBQ               Catholic Biblical Quarterly

cf.               confer, compare

CGSTJ             CGST Journal (Journal of China Graduate School of Theology)

Collins           R.F. Collins, Studies on the First Letter to the Thessalonians (BETL 66; Leuven 1984)

Concordance       Concordance to the Novum Testamentum Graece (3rd ed.; Berlin and New York 1987)

Dana-Mantey      H.E. Dana and J.R. Mantey, A Manual Grammar of the Greek New Testament (New York 1957)

Denney            James Denney, The Epistles to the Thessalonians, in The Expositor's Bible, ed. W.R. Nicoll (6 vols; New York n.d.), VI 311-383

ed.               edition/editor(s)

e.g.              exempli gratia, for example

EGT               The Expositor's Greek Testament, ed. W.R. Nicoll (5 vols; Grand Rapids, 1961 reprint)

Ellicott          C. J. Ellicott, St Paul's Epistles to the Thessalonians (London 1880)

Ellingworth-Nida Paul Ellingworth and E.A. Nida, A Translator's Handbook on Paul's Letters to the Thessalonians (HFT; Stuttgart 1976)

EQ                Evangelical Quarterly

Erdman            C. R. Erdman, The Epistles of Paul to the Thessalonians (Philadelphia 1965)

ERT               Evangelical Review of Theology

esp.              especially

E.T.              English translation

et al.            and others

Findlay           G.G. Findlay, The Epistles of Paul the Apostle, to the Thessalonians (Grand Rapids, 1982 reprint)

Frame             J.E. Frame, The Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians (ICC; Edinburgh 1912/1966)

FS                Festschrift

GNB               Good News Bible (=Today's English Version)

GNC               Good News Commentary

Grayston          Kenneth Grayston, The Letters of Paul to the Philippians and to the Thessalonians (CBC; Cambridge 1967)

Hendriksen        Wiiiiam Hendriksen, I & II Thessalonians (London, 1972 repr.)

Henneken          Bartholoma/us Henneken, Verku/ndigung und Prophetie im 1. Thessalonicherbrief (Stuttgarter Bibelstudien 29; Stuttgart 1969)

HFT               Helps for Translator

HNTC              Harper's New Testament Commentaries

IBD               Illustrated Bible Dictionary rev. ed. Norman Hillyer (3 parts; Leicester 1980)

IBS               lrish Biblical Studies,

ICC               International Critical Commentary

IDB/IDBS         The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, ed. G.A. Buttrick et al. (4 vols; New York 1962; supplementary volume 1976)

idem              the same

Idiom             C.F.D. Moule, An Idiom Book of New Testament Greek (2nd ed.; Cambridge 1959/1968)

i.e.              id est, that is

ISBER             The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, ed. G.W. Bromiley et aL (fully revised, 4 vols; Grand Rapids 1979-1988)

JAAR              Journal of the American Academy of Religion

JBL               Journal of Biblical Literature

JETS              Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society

Lightfoot         J.B. Lightfoot, 'First Epistle to the Thessalonians' and 'Second Epistle to the Thessalonians', Notes on Epistles of St Paul from Unpublished Commentaries (London 1895), 1-92 and 93-126, respectively

Marshall          I.H. Marshall, 1 and 2 Thessalonians (NCBC; (Grand Rapids/London 1983)

Metzger           B.M. Metzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (London and New York 1971)

MHT               J.H. Moulton - W.F. Howard - N. Turner, A Grammar of New Testament Greek (4 vols; Edinburgh 1906-1976)

Milligan          George Milligan, St Paul's Epistles to the Thessalonians (Minneapolis 1980 reprint)

MM                J.H. Moulton - G. Milligan, The Vocabulary of the Greek Testament (London 1930/1972)

MNTC              Moffatt New Testament Commentary

Moffatt           James Moffatt, 'The First and Second Epistles to the 'Thessalonians', in EGT IV 1-54

Moods and Tenses  E.D. Burton, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses in New Testament Greek (1900: Grand Rapids 1976)

Moore             A.L. Moore, 1 and 2 Thessalonians (NCB; London 1969)

Morris I          Leon Morris, The Epistles of Paul to the Thessalonians (TNTC; London 1956/1963)

Morris II         Leon Morris, The First and Second Epistles to the Thessalonians (NICNT; Grand Rapids 1959/1964)

Morris III        Leon Morris, '1 Thessalonians' and '2 Thessalonians', in The NIV Study Bible, ed. Kenneth Barker et al. Grand Rapids 1985), 1819-1826 and 1827-1831, respectively

NASB              New American Standard Bible

NBCR              The New Bible Commentary Revised, ed. Donald Guthrie et al. (London 1970)

NCB/NCBC         New Century Bible/New Century Bible Commentary

n.d.              no date

NEB               New English Bible

Neil              William Neil, The Epistle(s) of Paul to the Thessalonians (MNTC; London 1950)

Nestle-Aland     Nestle-Aland, Greek-English New Testament (26th rev. ed.; Stuttgart n.d.)

NICNT             New International Commentary on the New Testament

NIDCC             New International Dictionary of the Christian Church, ed. J.D. Douglas (Exeter 1974)

NIDNTT            New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology, ed. Colin Brown (E.T., 3 vols; Grand Rapids 1975-78)

NIGTC             New International Greek Testament Commentary

NIV               New International Version

NLCNT             The New London Commentary on the New Testament (= British edition of NICNT)

NovT              Novum Testamentum

NovTSupp          Supplements to Novum Testamentum

n.s.              new series

NTA               New Testament Abstracts

NTS               New Testament Studies

pace              with or by the leave (=permisson) of

Palmer            E. F. Palmer, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, (GNC; San Francisco 1983)

PC                Proclamation Commentaries

repr.             reprint/reprinted

rev.              revised/revision

RSV               Revised Standard Version

RTR               Reformed Theological Review

RV                Revised Version

SBT               Studies in Biblical Theology

SNTSMS            Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series

StudEv            Studia Evangelica

s.v.              sub voce, under the heading; sub verba, under the word

TDNT              Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, ed. G.W. Bromiley (E.T., 9 vols; Grand Rapid, 1964-74), with index (10th) volume by R.E. Pitkin (1976)

TDNTA             Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, abridged in one volume by G.W. Bromiley (Grand Rapids, 1985)

TEV               Today's English Version (=Good News Bible)

Thayer            J.H. Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, translated, revised and enlarged from Grimm's Wilke's Clavis Novi Testamenti (New York n.d.)

TNTC              Tyndale New Testament Commentary

TOTC              Tyndale Old Testament Commentary

Trench            R.C. Trench, Synonyms of the New Testament (9th ed., 1880; Grand Rapids 1966 repr.)

UBS               The Greek New Testament, ed. K. Aland et al. (United Bible Societies 1966)

Veldkamp          Herman Veldkamp, Waiting for Christ's Return (E.T.; St. Catharines, Ont. 1978)

VE                Vox Evangelica

WBC               Word Biblical Commentary

Whiteley          D.E.H. Whiteley, Thessalonians (New Clarendon Bible; London 1969)

Wolff             Richard Wolff, The First and Second Epistles of Paul to the Thessalonians (Wheaton 1970)

Zerwick           Maximilian Zerwick, Biblical Greek (E.T.; Rome 1963)

注:

(1)在引述上表之BDF, Dana-Mantey, Moods and Tenses, Zerwick各书时,简写后的数字是该书的段数而非页数。

(2)除非另外注明,本书所引用的新旧约经文皆出自和合本。

(3)希腊字词在保罗书信及/或新约出现的次数,系根据Concordance的数据计算,有符号者(表示异文)不算在内。

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