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Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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A Standard Apostolic Blessing
Commentators like Gill and Barnes note that this greeting, "Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ," is Paul's standard opening. Its use even in this short, personal letter shows that Paul is writing with apostolic seriousness and grounding his personal appeal in the same divine source of grace and peace that undergirds all his theological teaching.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Grace to you, and peace, etc. See Barnes on Romans 1:7.
19th Century
Baptist
Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God, making mention of you always in my prayers, hearing of …
The salutation is significant for its departures from Paul’s other salutations. The letter is in the form of an ancient letter of commendation, and…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Grace to you and peace, from God Which is the same form of salutation used in the other epistles; (See Gill on …
Faith in Christ, and love for Him, should unite saints more closely than any outward relationship can unite the people of the world. Paul, in his p…
13th Century
Catholic
1. The occasion for this epistle is as follows. At Colossae, an important Christian had a servant who secretly fled to Rome, where he was ba…
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