“Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.”
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ — the standard Pauline benediction fuses Hellenistic greeting (charis) with Hebrew peace (shalom), both originating from the triune God. This dual source grounds Christian peace not in circumstance but in God's gracious disposition toward us in Christ.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 1:2
It is meet to enquire, first, why to the former Epistle he adds a second: and what can be his reason for thus beginning with the mercies and consolation of God. Why then does he add a second Epistle? Whereas in the first he had said, “I will come to you, and will know not the word of them which are puffed up, but the power;” 1 Corinthians 4:19 and again towards the end had promised the same in milder terms, thus, “I will come unto you when I shall have passed through…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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