“Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. Unto the Galatians written from Rome.”
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers and sisters. Amen. — Paul's benedictory close: 'charis' (grace) of Christ upon the Galatians' 'pneuma' (spirit), a final reassurance of God's unmerited favor ('charis') working in and through the community; the singular 'amen' solemnizes the epistle's conclusion.
Church Fathers on Galatians 6:18
“The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brethren. Amen.” By this last word he has sealed all that preceded it. He says not merely, “with you,” as elsewhere, but, “with your spirit,” thus withdrawing them from carnal things, and displaying throughout the beneficence of God, and reminding them of the grace which they enjoyed, whereby he was able to recall them from all their judaizing errors. For to have received the Spirit came not of the poverty of the Law,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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