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Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
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Jesus is God
Commentators emphasize that Paul's prayer structure is a powerful affirmation of Jesus's divinity. By addressing "our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father" together, and even placing Jesus first, Paul treats Jesus as an equal object of prayer and a co-source of divine blessing, demonstrating that He is fully God.
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2 Thessalonians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
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…
19th Century
Anglican
Now—It is better translated as And, connecting the prayer closely with the exhortation, just as in [Reference 1 Thessalon…
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Baptist
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…
16th Century
Protestant
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…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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 …
13th Century
Catholic
1. Having described those whom the Antichrist has power to deceive—namely, those foreknown to suffer damnation—the Apostle now gives the rea…