2 Thessalonians 1:1

Σιλουανος is spelt Σιλβανος in DGgr 67**; cf. note on 1 Thessalonians 1:1. The Latin v is ambiguous in its Greek transliteration.

1. This ADDRESS differs from that of Epistle I. (see notes in extenso) only in the addition of ἡμῶν to πατρί: “in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ”—Father of us, whom He loves and calls into His own family: cf. 2 Thessalonians 2:16; 1 Thessalonians 1:4; Romans 1:7; Romans 8:15; Romans 8:29; Galatians 4:4-7; Ephesians 1:5; Luke 12:32, &c. This appropriative ἡμῶν is usual in later epistolary formulæ; cf. 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12, and notes.