And God our Father (κα [ο] θεος ο πατηρ ημων). It is uncertain whether the first article ο is genuine as it is absent in B D. Usua…

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself. This expression is equivalent to this: "I pray our Lord Jesus, and our Father, to comfort you." It is r…

Now—It is better translated as And, connecting the prayer closely with the exhortation, just as in [Reference 1 The aloni…

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the trut…

As Paul closes ch. 2 with a prayer, he recognizes that he and his coworkers cannot in themselves make the appeal effective. Only God himself, who i…

Now the Lord himself. When he ascribes to Christ a work altogether Divine, and represents him, in common with the Father, as the Author of…

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself
The apostle having has exhorted the saints to perseverance, closes this second par…

We may and should direct our prayers, not only to God the Father, through our Lord Jesus Christ, but also to our Lord Jesus Christ himself. And we …

1. Having described those whom the Antichrist has power to deceive—namely, those foreknown to suffer damnation—the Apostle now gives the rea…