Discovery Box1 Thessalonians 2:2 
Context2:2 But although we suffered earlier and were mistreated in Philippi, 1 as you know, we had the courage in our God to declare to you the gospel of God 2 in spite of much opposition.
1 Thessalonians 2:14
Context2:14 For you became imitators, brothers and sisters, 3 of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, because you too suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they in fact did from the Jews,
1 map For location see JP1 C1; JP2 C1; JP3 C1; JP4 C1.
2 tn The genitive in the phrase τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τοῦ θεοῦ (to euangelion tou qeou, “the gospel of God”) could be translated as either a subjective genitive (“the gospel which God brings”) or an objective genitive (“the gospel about God”). Either is grammatically possible. This is possibly an instance of a plenary genitive (see ExSyn 119-21; M. Zerwick, Biblical Greek, §§36-39). If so, an interplay between the two concepts is intended: The gospel which God brings is in fact the gospel about himself. This same phrase occurs in vv. 8 and 9 as well.
3 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:4.
