1 THESSALONIANS 5:28 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. The first epistle unto the Thessalonians was written from Athens.”
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you — the final benediction (charis) invokes Christ's transformative power upon the community. The letter opens with and closes in grace; the gospel-envelope frames all exhortation.
Church Fathers on 1 Thessalonians 5:28
And he does not merely command, but adjures them, and this from a fervent mind, that even though they should despise him, for the sake of the adjuration they may practice what is commanded. For men had a great dread of that appeal, but now that too is trampled under foot. And often when a slave is scourged, and adjures by God and His Christ, and says, “So may you die a Christian,” yet no one gives heed, no one regards it; but if he adjures him by his own son, immediately,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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