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EPISTLES TO THE THESSALONIANS . 109 at thistime becauseofthe maliceof the Jews,the wholecommunityofconvertstothefaithofChrist wouldhavebeenplacedingreatdanger. TheJews wouldhave endeavoredtofollowup theadvantage gained,aswastheircustom,eventotheexterminationofChristianityinthatregion. ItisrecordedthatPaul laboreda yearand six months in Corinth. His efforts,however,werenot exclusivelyconfinedtothatcity,but he availed himselfof theeasycommunicationby landand water with adjacentcities, and laboredamong them bothby letterand personaleffort. He made Corinthhisheadquarters,and hislongtarryand successfulministrytheregavehim influenceabroad as well as at home . Several churches were thus raisedup underthe effortsofthe apostleand his co -laborers . The absence of Paul from the churchesofhiscarewas partiallysuppliedby communicationsweightyand powerful, which were receivedgenerallyas thewordof God to them throughhisobedientservant. Theseepistleswere read in the churches . CHAPTER XI . EPISTLES TO THE THESSALONIANS . WHILE Paulwas stillat Corinth, laboringin word and doctrine, and alsoin the work-shop, Silasand Timothycame from Macedonia. The pleasureof meeting these two faithfulco-laborers gavehim freshzealand couragetowithstandthe continuallyincreasingopposition,whichhadgreatly