1 Corinthians 1:3

χάρις ὑμῖν καὶ εἰρήνη ἀπὸ Θεοῦ κ. τ. λ.: Paul's customary greeting; see note on Romans 1:7. “The occurrence of the peculiar phrase ‘grace and peace' in Paul, John, and Peter intimates that we have here the earliest Christian password or symbolum ” (Ed [63]). κυρίου might grammatically be parl [64] to ἡμῶν, both depending upon πατρός, as in 2 Corinthians 1:3, etc.; but 1 and 2 Thessalonians 1:1 (Θεῷ πατρὶ κ. Κυρίῳ Ἰ. Χ.) prove Father and Lord in this formula to be parl [65] : cf. 1Co 8:6, 2 Corinthians 13:13; nowhere does P. speak (as in John 20:17) of God as Father of Christ and of men co-ordinately, and for ἡμῶν to come first in such connexion would be incongruous. “The union of” Θεοῦ and Κυρίου “under the vinculum of a common prp [66] is one of the numberless hints scattered through St. Paul's epp. of the consciously felt and recognised co-ordination” of the Father and Christ (El [67]).

[63] T. C. Edwards' Commentary on the First Ep. to the Corinthians. 2

[64] parallel.

[65] parallel.

[66] preposition.

[67] C. J. Ellicott's St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians.