1 Thessalonians 3:11. May God himself. Himself is added to give emphasis to the appeal to God; may He whose power cannot be baffled by Satan as my efforts have been, may He whose purposes stand fast and who overrules all human affairs, bring me to you.

And our Lord Jesus Christ. Christ is conjoined with God as the object of prayer and as the disposer of persons and events. Divine rank and Divine power are thus ascribed to Him. The circumstance that a verb in the singular follows these two nominatives (God and our Lord Jesus Christ) is certainly worthy of remark, and has commonly been considered as proof that in the apostle's mind the Father and Jesus Christ were looked upon as one God. It exhibits them as one source of energy.

Direct our way unto you. Three or four years elapsed before this prayer was answered.

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