Now may our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you.
11 Now God himself. He now prays that the Lord, having removed Satan’s obstructions, may open a door for himself, and be, as it were, the leader and director of his way to the Thessalonians. By this he intimates, that we cannot move a step with success, “Nous ne pouuons d’vn costé ne d’autre faire vn pas qui proufite et viene a bien;” — “We...
Prayer offered to God as Father and to Christ as Lord proves that Christ is God as truly as the Father is God. We depend on divine Providence in every motion and action; even a journey depends not on our will alone but on God directing our way.
AI summary
Commenting on 1 Thessalonians 3:11-13
Now God himself, and our Father,.... The Oriental versions leave out the copulative "and", and read, "God himself, our Father" the first person in the Trinity, who is God himself, truly and properly so; and who is a God that hears prayer; and who is omnipotent, and able to do more than the saints can ask or think; and omniscient, and knows their persons and...