Here sueth anothir prologe to the Tessalonicensis [This prologue is from y.] .
This epistil, as the tother, is departid into tweie partis. In the first part he exciteth hem to take.mekeli the passiouns, whiche now more thei suffre than thei dide bifore, or that he sent the first pistil. For whi bi siche passiouns ther gracis ben maad more. In the ii. part he enformeth hem of vertues. And these ben the last pistilis that the apostil writith to hethen men, for alle the epistlis suynge ben to persoones, that is, to Tymothe, and Tite, and Filemon.