giving vengeance to those who don't know God, and to those who don't obey the Gospel of our Lord Jesus,
The belief of the gospel is often termed by Paul the obedience of faith; because God hath commanded men to believe the gospel. Hence Christ told the Jews, John 6:29 "This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent." Hence also faith is called a work, 1 Thessalonians 1:3. "your work of faith." In this clause the apostle seems to have had the unbelieving Jews in his eye, and all who, like them obstinately and maliciously (426).