comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word. [Paul, as a minister of Christ, was endeavoring to comfort and establish the Thessalonians in their words and deeds, and he here prays that Christ himself and God the Father may thus comfort and establish them; and he describes the Father as one who loved them (John 3:16), and through mere grace had given them the means of never failing consolation, and a good hope of a final salvation, which is more than consolation.]

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