2 CORINTHIANS 13:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen. The second epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi, a city of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas.”
May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all — this is Christianity's *most comprehensive Trinitarian blessing*. *Charis* (*grace*) of the *Son* (the *kenotic gift*), *agapē* (*love*) of the *Father* (*God*, ho theos), and *koinōnia* (*communion/participation*) of the *Holy Spirit* — the *three persons* in their *distinctive operations*, yet one *blessing*, one *divine reality* sustaining the community. The epistle concludes not with *authority* but with *grace*, *love*, and *communion*.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 13:14
“The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God,” and the Father, “and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all.” After having united them to one other by the salutations and the kisses, he again closes his speech with prayer, with much carefulness uniting them unto God also. Where now are they who say that because the Holy Spirit is not inserted in the beginnings of the Epistles, He is not of the same substance? For, behold, he has now enumerated Him with…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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