Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
That (opwv). Rare with Paul compared with ina (1 Corinthians 1:29; 2 Corinthians 8:14). Perhaps here for variety (dependent on ina clause in verse 2 Thessalonians 1:11).
The name (to onoma). The Old Testament (LXX) uses onoma embodying the revealed character of Jehovah. So here the
Name of our Lord Jesus means the Messiahship and Lordship of Jesus. The common Greek idiom of onoma for title or dignity as in the papyri (Milligan) is not quite this idiom. The papyri also give examples of onoma for person as in O.T. and Acts 1:15 (Deissmann, Bible Studies, pp. 196ff.).
In you, and ye in him (en umin, kai umeiv en autw). This reciprocal glorying is Pauline, but it is also like Christ's figure of the vine and the branches in John 15:1-11.
According to the grace (kata thn xarin). Not merely standard, but also aim (Robertson, Grammar, p. 609).
Of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ (tou qeou hmwn kai kuriou Ihsou Xristou). Here strict syntax requires, since there is only one article with qeou and kuriou that one person be meant, Jesus Christ, as is certainly true in Titus 2:13; 2 Peter 1:1 (Robertson, Grammar, p.786). This otherwise conclusive syntactical argument, admitted by Schmiedel, is weakened a bit by the fact that Kuriov is often employed as a proper name without the article, a thing not true of swthr in Titus 2:13; 2 Peter 1:1. So in Ephesians 5:5 en th basileiai tou Xristou kai qeou the natural meaning is
in the Kingdom of Christ and God regarded as one, but here again qeov, like Kuriov, often occurs as a proper name without the article. So it has to be admitted that here Paul may mean "according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ," though he may also mean "according to the grace of our God and Lord, Jesus Christ."
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
1 Corinthians 1:2
2 Thessalonians 1:10
2 Thessalonians 1:11
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