For even when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we were to suffer affliction; just as it has come to pass, and as you know — Paul's prior instruction proves prophetic; he prepared them for the very persecution now upon them. The forewarning (prolego, to foretell) is not pessimism but eschatological realism. The fulfillment of his prediction validates the gospel's truth-claim.

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