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The “peace” prayed for here has perhaps a more immediate reference to external matters than in the parallel passage. St. Chrysostom suggests the danger of quarrels breaking out owing to the administration of the prescribed discipline. And the conduct of these restless busybodies was in itself destructive of peace, both for their own souls and for the community. But the words “by all means,” or, more literally, <span class= "ital">in every shape and form, </span>show that the Apostle is extending his glance over all the subjects mentioned in the Epistle now finished: “Peace all throughout in every form,” through all persecutions and from all persecutions; through the terrors of the reign of Antichrist and through the Judgment Day; peace among themselves, in their own hearts, with God.<p><span class= "bld">The Lord be with you all.</span>—Another way of expressing the prayer for peace; for where He enters He says, “Peace be unto you.” The word “all” is strongly emphasised, catching up the “always” and “in all forms.” St. Paul has spoken with strong censure of some; but he wishes to show that he bears no ill-will to any; and to leave off by blessing all, as he began by giving thanks for all (<a href="/2_thessalonians/1-3.htm" title="We are bound to thank God always for you, brothers, as it is meet, because that your faith grows exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other abounds;">2Thessalonians 1:3</a>).<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/maclaren/2_thessalonians/3.htm">MacLaren's Expositions</a></div> 2 Thessalonians <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">THE LORD OF PEACE AND THE PEACE OF THE LORD</span><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/2_thessalonians/3-16.htm" title="Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.">2 Thessalonians 3:16</a>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>We have reached here the last of the brief outbursts of prayer which characterise this letter, and bear witness to the Apostle’s affection for his Thessalonian converts. It is the deepening of the ordinary Jewish formula of meeting and parting. We find that, in most of his letters, the Apostle begins with wishing ‘grace and peace,’ and closes with an echo of the wish. ‘Peace be unto you’ was often a form which meant nothing. But true religion turns conventional insincerities into real, heartfelt desires. It was often a wish destined to remain unfulfilled. But loving wishes are potent when they are changed into petitions.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>The relation between the two clauses of my text seems to be that the second, ‘The Lord be with you all,’ is not so much a separate, additional supplication as rather the fuller statement, in the form of prayer, of the means by which the former supplication is to be accomplished. ‘The Lord of Peace’ gives peace by giving His own presence. This, then, is the supreme desire of the Apostle, that Christ may be with them all, and in His presence they may find the secret of tranquillity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">I. The deepest longing of every human soul is for peace.</span><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>There are many ways in which the supreme good may be represented, but perhaps none of them is so lovely, and exercises such universal fascination of attraction, as that which presents it in the form of rest. It is an eloquent testimony to the unrest which tortures every heart that the promise of peace should to all seem so fair. It may be presented and aimed at in very ignoble and selfish ways. It may be sought for in cowardly shirking of duty, in sluggish avoidance of effort, in selfish absorption, apart from all the miseries of mankind. It may be sought for in the ignoble paths of mere pleasure, amidst the sanctities of human love, amidst the nobilities of intellectual effort and pursuit. But all men in their workings are aiming at rest of spirit, and only in such rest does blessedness lie. ‘There is no joy but calm.’ It is better than all the excitements of conflict, and better than the flush of victory. Best which is not apathy, rest which is not indolence, rest which is contemporaneous with, and the consequence of, the full wholesome activity of the whole nature in its legitimate directions, that is the good that we are all longing for. The sea is not stagnant, though it be calm. There will be the slow heave of the calm billow, and the wavelets may sparkle in the sunlight, though they be still from all the winds that rave. Deep in every human heart, in yours and mine, brother, is this cry for rest and peace. Let us see to it that we do not mistranslate the meaning of the longing, or fancy that it can be found in the ignoble, the selfish, the worldly ways to which I have referred. We want, most of all, peace in our inmost hearts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">II. Then the second thing to be suggested here is that the Lord of Peace Himself is the only giver of peace.</span><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>I suppose I may take for granted, on the part at least of the members of my own congregation, some remembrance of a former discourse upon another of these petitions, in which I pointed out how, in phraseology analogous to that of my text, there were the distinct reference to the divinity of Jesus Christ, the distinct presentation of prayer to Him, the implication of His present activity upon Christian hearts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>And here again we have the august and majestic ‘Himself.’ Here again we have the distinct reference of the title ‘Lord’ to Jesus. And here again we have plainly prayer to Him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>But the title by which He is addressed is profoundly significant, ‘The Lord of Peace.’ Now we find, in another of Paul’s letters, in immediate conjunction with His teaching, that casting all our care upon God is the sure way to bring the peace of God into our hearts, the title ‘the God of Peace’; and he employs the same phraseology in another of his letters, when he prays that the ‘God of Peace’ would fill the Roman Christians ‘with all joy and peace in believing.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>So, then, here is a title which is all but distinctively divine. ‘The Lord of Peace’ is brought into parallelism and equality with ‘the God of Peace’; which were blasphemy unless the underlying implication was that Jesus Christ Himself was divine.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>He is the ‘Lord of Peace’ because that tranquillity of heart and spirit, that unruffled calm which we all see from afar, and long to possess, was verily His, in His manhood, during all the calamities and changes and activities of His earthly life. I have said that ‘peace’ is not apathy, that it is not indifference, that it is not self-absorption. Look at the life of the ‘Lord of Peace.’ In Him there were wholesome human emotions. He sorrowed, He wept, He wondered, He was angry, He pitied, He loved. And yet all these were perfectly consistent with the unruffled calm which marked His whole career. So peace is not stolid indifference, nor is it to be found in the avoidance of difficult duties, or the cowardly shirking of sacrifices and pains and struggles; but rather it is ‘peace subsisting at the heart of endless agitation,’ of which the great example stands in Him who was ‘the Man of Sorrows and acquainted with grief,’ and who yet, in it all, was ‘the Lord of Peace.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Why was Christ’s manhood so perfectly tranquil? The secret lies here. It was a manhood in unbroken communion with the Father. And what was the secret of that unbroken communion with the Father? It lies here, in the perfect submission of His will. Resignation is peace. The surrender of self-will is peace. Obedience is peace. Trust is peace, and fellowship with the divine is peace. So Christ has taught us in His life--’The Father hath not left Me alone, because I do always the things that please Him.’ And therein He has marked out for us the path of righteousness and communion, which is ever the path of peace. ‘Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee, because he trusteth in Thee.’ That is the secret of the tranquillity of the ever-calm Christ.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Being thus the Lord of Peace, inasmuch as it was His own constant and unbroken possession, He is the sole giver of it to others.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Ah! brethren, our hearts want far more, for their stable restfulness, than we can find in any hand, or in any heart, except those of Jesus Christ Himself. For what do we need? We need, in order that we should know the sweetness of repose, an adequate object for every part of our nature. If we find something that is good and sweet and satisfying for some portion of this complex being of ours, all its other hungry desires are apt to be left unappeased. So we are shuttle-cocked from one wish to another, and bandied about from one partial satisfaction to another, and in them all it is but segments of our being that are satisfied, whilst all the rest of the circumference remains disquieted. We need that, in one attainable and single object, there shall be at once that which will subjugate the will, that which will illuminate and appease the conscience, that which will satisfy the seeking intellect, and hold forth the promise of endless progress in insight and knowledge, that which will meet all the desires of our ravenous clamant nature, and that which will fill every creek and cranny of our empty hearts as with the flashing brightness of an inflowing tide.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>And where shall we find all these, but in one dear heart, and where shall we discern the one object, whom, possessing, we have enough; and without whom, possessing all beside, we are mendicants and starving? Where, but in that dear Lord, who Himself will supply all our needs, and will minister to us peace, because for will and conscience and intellect and affections and desires He supplies the pabulum that they require, and gives more than enough for their satisfaction?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>We want, if we are to be at rest, that there shall be some absolute control over our passions, lusts, desires, which torture us for ever, as long as they are ungoverned. There is only one hand which will take the wild beasts of our nature, bind them in the silken leash of His love, and lead them along, tamed and obedient.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>We want, for our peace, that all our relations with circumstances and men around us shall be rectified. And who is there that can bring about such harmony between us and our surroundings that calamities shall not press upon us with their heaviest weight, nor opposing circumstances kindle angry resistance, but only patient perseverance and thankful persistence in the path of duty? It is only Christ that can regulate our relations to the things and the men around us, and make all things work together to our consciousness for our good.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Further, if we are to be at rest, and possess any true, fundamental, and stable tranquillity, we want that our relations with God shall consciously be rectified and made blessed. And I, for my part, do not believe that any man comes into the full sweetness of an assured friendship with God, unless he comes to it by the road of faith in that Saviour in whom God draws near to us with tenderness in His heart, and blessings dropping from His open Hands. To be at peace with God is the beginning of all true tranquillity, and that can be secured only by faith in Jesus Christ.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>So, because He brings the reconciliation between man and God, because He brings the rectification of our relation to circumstances and men, because He brings the control of desires and passions and inclinations, and because He satisfies all the capacities of our natures, in Him, and in Him only, is there peace for us.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">III. So note, thirdly, that the peace of the Lord of Peace is perfect.</span><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>‘Give you peace always,’ that points to perpetual, unbroken duration in time, and through all changing circumstances which might threaten a less stable and deeply-rooted tranquillity. And then, ‘by all means,’ as our Authorised Version has it, or, better, ‘in all ways,’ as the Revised Version reads, the reference being, not so much to the various manners in which the divine peace is to be bestowed, as to the various aspects which that peace is capable of assuming. Christ’s peace, then, is perpetual and multiform, unbroken, and presenting itself in all the aspects in which tranquillity is possible for a human spirit.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>It is possible, then, thinks Paul, that there shall be in our hearts a deep tranquillity, over which disasters, calamities, sorrows, losses, need have no power. There is no necessity why, when my outward life is troubled, my inward life should be perturbed. There may be light in the dwellings of Goshen, while darkness lies over all the land of Egypt. The peace which Christ gives is no exemption from warfare, but is realised in the midst of warfare. It is no immunity from sorrows, but is then most felt when the storm of sorrow beating upon us is patiently accepted. The rainbow steadfastly stands spanning the tortured waters of the cataract. The fire may burn, like that old Greek fire, beneath the water. The surface may be agitated, but the centre may be calm. It is not calamity that breaks our peace, but it is the resistance of our wills to calamity which troubles us. When we can bow and submit and say, ‘Thy will be done,’ ‘it seemeth good to Thee, do as Thou wilt,’ then nothing can break the peace of God in our hearts. We seek in the wrong quarter for peace when we seek it in the disposition of outward things according to our wills. We seek in the right way when we seek it in the disposition of our wills according to the will of the Father manifest in our circumstances. There may be peace always, even whilst the storms, efforts, and calamities of life are in full operation around us and on us. That peace may be uninterrupted and uniform, extended on one high level, as it were through all our lives. It is not so with us, dear brethren; there are ups and downs which are our own fault. The peace of God may be permanent, but, in order that it should be, there must be permanent communion and permanent obedience.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Further, says the Apostle, Christ’s peace will not manifest itself in one form only, but in all the shapes in which peace is possible. There are many enemies that beset this calmness of spirit; for them all there is the appropriate armour and defence in the peace of God, I have already enumerated in part some of the requirements for true and permanent tranquillity of soul. All these are met in the peace of Christ. Whatever it is that disturbs men, He has His anodyne that will soothe. If circumstances threaten, if men array themselves against us, if our own evil hearts rise up in rebellion, if our passions disturb us, if our consciences accuse: for all these Christ brings tranquillity and calm. In every way in which men can be disturbed, and in every way, therefore, in which peace can be manifest, Christ’s gift avails. ‘Come unto Me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">IV. Lastly, ‘the Lord of Peace’ gives it by giving His own presence.</span><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>The Thessalonians, as they listened to Paul’s first prayer, might think to themselves, ‘Always, by all means.’ That is a large petition! Can it be fufilled? And so the Apostle adds, ‘The Lord be with you all.’ You cannot separate Christ’s gifts from Christ. The only way to get anything that He gives is to get Him. It is His presence that does everything. If He is with me, the world’s annoyances will seem very small. If I hold His hand I shall not be much troubled. If I can only nestle close to His side, and come under His cloak, He will shield me from the cold blast, from whatever side it blows. If my heart is twined around Him it will partake of the stability and calm of the great heart on which it rests.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>The secret of tranquillity is the presence of Christ. When He is in the vessel the waves calm themselves. So, Christian men and women, if you and I are conscious of breaches of our restfulness, interruptions of our tranquillity by reason of surging, impatient passions, and hot desires within ourselves, or by reason of the pressure of outward circumstances, or by reason of our having fallen beneath our consciences, and done wrong things, let us understand that the breaches of our peace are not owing to Him, but only to our having let go His hand. It is our own faults if we are ever troubled; if we kept close to Him we should not be. It is our own faults if the world ever agitates us beyond the measure that is compatible with central calm. Sorrow should not have the power to touch the citadel of our lives. Effort should not have the power to withdraw us from our trustful repose in Him. And nothing here would have the power, if we did not let our hand slip out of His, and break our communion with Him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>So, dear brethren, ‘in the world ye shall have tribulation, in Me ye shall have peace.’ Keep inside the fortress and nothing will disturb. ‘He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.’ The only place where that hungry, passion-ridden heart of yours, conscious of alienation from God, can find rest, is close by Jesus Christ. ‘The Lord be with us all,’ and then the peace of that Lord shall clothe and fill our hearts in Christ Jesus.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/benson/2_thessalonians/3.htm">Benson Commentary</a></div><span class="bld"><a href="/context/2_thessalonians/3-16.htm" title="Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all....">2 Thessalonians 3:16-17</a></span>. <span class="ital">Now the Lord of peace himself — </span>See on <a href="/romans/15-33.htm" title="Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.">Romans 15:33</a>; or Christ may be here intended, and called the <span class="ital">Lord of peace, </span>in allusion to <a href="/isaiah/9-6.htm" title="For to us a child is born, to us a son is given: and the government shall be on his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.">Isaiah 9:6</a>, where he is foretold under the character of the <span class="ital">Prince of peace, </span>because he was to reconcile Jews and Gentiles to God and to one another. <span class="ital">Give you peace by all means </span>— In every way and manner. This prayer the apostle subjoins to the foregoing command, to intimate that if the rulers of the church are faithful in their exhortations and admonitions, it is to be expected that the Lord will follow their labours with his blessing, and make them effectual for producing peace and righteousness among the members of his body. <span class="ital">The Lord be with you all </span>— A wish this founded on Christ’s promise, (<a href="/matthew/28-20.htm" title="Teaching them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you: and, see, I am with you always, even to the end of the world. Amen.">Matthew 28:20</a>,) <span class="ital">Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world, </span>with which promise it is probable Paul was made acquainted. <span class="ital">The salutation of Paul with mine own hand </span>— See on <a href="/1_corinthians/16-21.htm" title="The salutation of me Paul with my own hand.">1 Corinthians 16:21</a>; <a href="/galatians/6-11.htm" title="You see how large a letter I have written to you with my own hand.">Galatians 6:11</a>; <span class="ital">which is the token in every epistle</span> — The mark to know those that are true from such as are counterfeit. <span class="ital">So I write </span>— This is my custom in all my epistles. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/2_thessalonians/3.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>3:16-18 The apostle prays for the Thessalonians. And let us desire the same blessings for ourselves and our friends. Peace with God. This peace is desired for them always, or in every thing. Peace by all means; in every way; that, as they enjoyed the means of grace, they might use all methods to secure peace. We need nothing more to make us safe and happy, nor can we desire any thing better for ourselves and our friends, than to have God's gracious presence with us and them. No matter where we are, if God be with us; nor who is absent, if God be present. It is through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that we hope to have peace with God, and to enjoy the presence of God. This grace is all in all to make us happy; though we wish ever so much to others, there remains enough for ourselves.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/2_thessalonians/3.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>Now the Lord of peace - The Lord who alone can impart peace; see the <a href="/romans/15-33.htm">Romans 15:33</a> note; <a href="/1_corinthians/14-33.htm">1 Corinthians 14:33</a> note; <a href="/hebrews/13-20.htm">Hebrews 13:20</a> note; <a href="/john/14-27.htm">John 14:27</a> note. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/2_thessalonians/3.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>16. Lord of peace—Jesus Christ. The same title is given to Him as to the Father, "the God of peace" (Ro 15:33; 16:20; 2Co 13:11). An appropriate title in the prayer here, where the harmony of the Christian community was liable to interruption from the "disorderly." The Greek article requires the translation, "Give you the peace" which it is "His to give." "Peace" outward and inward, here and hereafter (Ro 14:17).<p>always—unbroken, not changing with outward circumstances.<p>by all means—Greek, "in every way." Most of the oldest manuscripts read, "in every place"; thus he prays for their peace in all times ("always") and places.<p>Lord be with you all—May He bless you not only with peace, but also with His presence (Mt 28:20). Even the disorderly brethren (compare 2Th 3:15, "a brother") are included in this prayer.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/2_thessalonians/3.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> <span class="bld">Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace:</span> the apostle is now taking his leave, and closing up his Epistle; and this he doth with prayer; and what he prays for is peace: and though the word peace hath various acceptations, and is of comprehensive signification, yet here it is to understood of brotherly peace and unity. Whether it was occasioned by any dissensions that were actually among them, or his fears of such to arise upon the practice of their duties to the disorderly among them, that he thus prays, is uncertain. And it is that which he much presseth and prays for in his several Epistles to the churches, as being that wherein the honour of the gospel, and their own comfort and edification, were so much concerned. And the person he prays to he styles <span class="ital">the Lord of peace, </span> whereby I suppose he means Jesus Christ, who is sometimes called <span class="ital">the Prince of Peace, </span><span class="bldvs"> <a href="/isaiah/9-6.htm" title="For to us a child is born, to us a son is given: and the government shall be on his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.">Isaiah 9:6</a></span>; as God is called <span class="ital">the God of peace, </span><span class="bldvs"> <a href="/1_thessalonians/5-23.htm" title="And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.">1 Thessalonians 5:23</a></span>. It is he that hath made peace between God and us, between the Jew and Gentile, and it is one of the fruits of his Spirit in the hearts of Christians, <span class="bld"><a href="/galatians/5-22.htm" title="But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,">Galatians 5:22</a></span>. True Christian peace is the gift of Christ, and therefore the apostle prays the Lord to give it, and saith, <span class="ital">the Lord himself, </span> as intimating none but he can give it, and that it is a singular blessing to enjoy it, as we must so interpret the phrase when at any other time we find it, as <span class="bld"><a href="/1_thessalonians/5-23.htm" title="And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.">1 Thessalonians 5:23</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Always by all means:</span> he shows both the desirableness and difficulty of peace. It is worth the using all endeavours for it, and without such we shall hardly attain it, as <span class="bld"><a href="/romans/12-18.htm" title="If it be possible, as much as lies in you, live peaceably with all men.">Romans 12:18</a></span>: <span class="ital">If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men; </span> quite contrary to the temper and practice of some men, who will live peaceably with no man: and elsewhere we read of following peace; <span class="bld"><a href="/hebrews/12-14.htm" title="Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:">Hebrews 12:14</a></span>, and seeking peace and pursuing it, <span class="bld"><a href="/1_peter/3-11.htm" title="Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.">1 Peter 3:11</a></span>, and <span class="ital">endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace, </span><span class="bldvs"> <a href="/ephesians/4-3.htm" title="Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.">Ephesians 4:3</a></span>. And the apostle prays for it in the text with much earnestness, and that they might enjoy it without interruption, <span class="ital">always; </span> that there might be no schism rise up among them at any time. And if we read the next words, in every thing, he prays that their peace might be universal with respect to opinions, words, and actions. And as a final farewell he addeth: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">The Lord be with you all; </span> which shows his affection to them all, though he had reproved sharply the disorders that some were guilty of. And a greater thing he could not desire for them, it comprehends all blessings in it, and the very blessedness of heaven itself; as a usual farewell word, Adieu, is a recommending a person to God. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/2_thessalonians/3.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>Now the Lord of peace himself,.... The Prince of peace, who is peaceable himself, and the author of peace in all his churches, and who requires peace, calls for it, and encourages it: <p>give you peace always by all means; both a conscience peace, through the blood, righteousness, and sacrifice of Christ, and faith in them, which passes all understanding, and which, when he gives, none can take away; and a church peace, being freed from all such disorderly persons and their abettors, the disturbers of it: and indeed, the way to have true peace and prosperity in churches is to keep up the discipline of God's house. The apostle prays for it in faith, upon an observance of the rules he had given; he prays for constant and perpetual peace, which is greatly to be desired; and that it might be had by all means, and in every way through praying, preaching, administering the ordinances, laying on censures, when necessary, and Christian conversation. Some copies, and the Vulgate Latin version, read "in every place"; as well as at Thessalonica. <p>The Lord be with you all; by his presence, to comfort and refresh; by his power, to keep and preserve; by his grace, to assist; and by his Spirit, to counsel, advise, and direct. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/2_thessalonians/3.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2"><span class="cverse3">{15}</span> Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord <i>be</i> with you all.</span><p>(15) Prayers are the seals of all exhortations.</div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/meyer/2_thessalonians/3.htm">Meyer's NT Commentary</a></div><a href="/2_thessalonians/3-16.htm" title="Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.">2 Thessalonians 3:16</a>. The apostle, hastening to a conclusion, annexes a <span class="ital">benediction</span> to the exhortation. By <span class="greekheb">ὁ κύριος τῆς εἰρήνης</span> is meant not God, but <span class="ital">Christ</span>, and the genitive designates Him as the <span class="ital">Creator and Producer</span> of <span class="greekheb">εἰρήνη</span>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="greekheb">τῆς εἰρήνης</span> and <span class="greekheb">τὴν εἰρήνην</span>] are usually interpreted, either of <span class="ital">mutual harmony</span> or of <span class="ital">peace of mind</span> (or even, as <span class="ital">e.g.</span> by Schott, <span class="ital">of both together</span>, external and internal peace). The first-mentioned interpretation is untenable, because there is in the Epistle not the slightest trace of <span class="ital">dissensions</span> in the church; and the shift that the fanatical excitement in the church, and the idleness consequent upon it, <span class="ital">might</span> lead to external disquiet, and accordingly the wish of the apostle was occasioned with a view to the future, is far-fetched and arbitrary, because Paul prays for what was <span class="ital">immediately</span> to occur. There is nothing against the second interpretation, as calmness of mind or peace of soul is undoubtedly indicated by <span class="greekheb">εἰρήνη</span> (<a href="/philippians/4-7.htm" title="And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.">Php 4:7</a>). See Meyer and Weiss <span class="ital">in loco.</span> Yet it is also admissible to understand <span class="greekheb">εἰρήνη</span> both times (corresponding to the Hebrew <span class="greekheb">שָׁלוֹם</span>; see Fritzsche, ad Rom. I. p. 22 ff.) in the sense of salvation or blessing, and, indeed, on account of the article <span class="greekheb">τῆς</span> and <span class="greekheb">τήν</span>, of the definite,—that is to say, the specifically Christian blessing or salvation. This interpretation is also supported by the fact, that as <span class="greekheb">χάρις καὶ εἰρήνη</span> at the commencement of the apostolic Epistles corresponds to the Salutem or <span class="greekheb">εὖ πράττειν</span> of profane writers, so the apostolic benediction at the conclusion of the Epistles is nothing else than the Christian transformation of the usual Valete or <span class="greekheb">ἔῤῥωσθε</span>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="greekheb">διὰ παντός</span>] always, <a href="/romans/11-10.htm" title="Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always.">Romans 11:10</a>; <a href="/matthew/18-10.htm" title="Take heed that you despise not one of these little ones; for I say to you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.">Matthew 18:10</a>; <a href="/acts/2-25.htm" title="For David speaks concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:">Acts 2:25</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="greekheb">μετὰ πάντων ὑμῶν</span>] accordingly even with the <span class="greekheb">ἀτάκτως περιπατοῦντες</span>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/egt/2_thessalonians/3.htm">Expositor's Greek Testament</a></div><a href="/2_thessalonians/3-16.htm" title="Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.">2 Thessalonians 3:16</a>. <span class="greekheb">εἰρήνην</span>, as opposed to these fears and troubles of the church. <span class="greekheb">Κύριος</span> is probably, in accordance with Paul’s usual practice, to be taken as = Jesus Christ, but the language of <a href="/2_thessalonians/3-5.htm" title="And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.">2 Thessalonians 3:5</a> and of I., <a href="/1_thessalonians/5-23.htm" title="And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.">1 Thessalonians 5:23</a>, makes the reference to God quite possible.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/2_thessalonians/3.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div>Conclusion of the Letter. Ch. <a href="/context/2_thessalonians/3-16.htm" title="Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all....">2 Thessalonians 3:16-18</a><span class="bld">16</span>. <span class="ital">Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means</span>] Lit., <span class="bld">But may the Lord</span>, &c.; for there is a contrast between the directions just given and the <span class="ital">peace</span> for which the Apostle prays. Peace was disturbed by an irritating kind of disorder in the Church, by wild rumours and alarms respecting the Parousia (ch. <a href="/context/2_thessalonians/2-1.htm" title="Now we beseech you, brothers, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together to him,...">2 Thessalonians 2:1-2</a>), as well as by the unrelenting persecution from without. St Paul has done his best to tranquillize his readers’ minds, and bring them all to a sober and orderly condition. But he looks to “the Lord of peace Himself” to shed on them His all-controlling and all-reconciling influence. Christ is invoked as <span class="ital">the Lord of peace</span> (comp. <a href="/2_thessalonians/3-5.htm" title="And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.">2 Thessalonians 3:5</a>), just as God was called “the God of peace” in <a href="/1_thessalonians/5-23.htm" title="And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.">1 Thessalonians 5:23</a> (see note; and on the import of “peace” in St Paul, note to <a href="/1_thessalonians/1-1.htm" title="Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, to the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.">1 Thessalonians 1:1</a>). Christ is Lord and Disposer of the peace which the Gospel brings (comp. <a href="/colossians/3-15.htm" title=" And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also you are called in one body; and be you thankful.">Colossians 3:15</a>, R.V.). This St Paul asks, first (ch. <a href="/2_thessalonians/1-2.htm" title="Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.">2 Thessalonians 1:2</a>) and last, for the troubled and harassed Thessalonians.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>“Always” represents a different Greek adverb from that so often used in these letters (<a href="/1_thessalonians/1-2.htm" title="We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;">1 Thessalonians 1:2</a>, &c.); it denotes not <span class="ital">on every occasion</span>, but <span class="ital">through all</span>,—“continually,” as the same adverb is rendered in <a href="/luke/24-53.htm" title="And were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.">Luke 24:53</a>, <a href="/hebrews/13-15.htm" title="By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.">Hebrews 13:15</a> : <span class="bld">the Lord … give you peace at all times in all ways</span> (R.V.).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Nor is it the Lord’s sovereign peace alone, but <span class="ital">the Lord</span> Himself, in His personal presence and authority (comp. <a href="/matthew/28-18.htm" title="And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, All power is given to me in heaven and in earth.">Matthew 28:18</a>; <a href="/matthew/28-20.htm" title="Teaching them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you: and, see, I am with you always, even to the end of the world. Amen.">Matthew 28:20</a>), Whom the Apostle invokes. <span class="bld">The Lord be with you all</span>, as in <a href="/2_thessalonians/3-18.htm" title="The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.">2 Thessalonians 3:18</a>,—not excluding the “brother walking disorderly,” who even more than others needs the presence of <span class="ital">the Lord</span> and the virtue of His <span class="ital">peace</span>. Comp. <a href="/1_corinthians/16-24.htm" title="My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.">1 Corinthians 16:24</a>, <a href="/2_corinthians/13-14.htm" title="The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.">2 Corinthians 13:14</a>, where the “all” of the Benediction has a like pointed significance; also note on <a href="/1_thessalonians/5-27.htm" title="I charge you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brothers.">1 Thessalonians 5:27</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/bengel/2_thessalonians/3.htm">Bengel's Gnomen</a></div><a href="/2_thessalonians/3-16.htm" title="Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.">2 Thessalonians 3:16</a>. <span class="greekheb">Ὁ Κύριος τῆς εἰρήνης</span>, <span class="ital">the Lord of peace</span>) Christ.—<span class="greekheb">τὴν εἰρήνην</span>, <span class="ital">peace</span>) with the brethren.—<span class="greekheb">ἐν παντὶ τρόπῳ</span>) [“by all means”] <span class="ital">in every mode</span> (<span class="ital">way</span>) of living, even as to what concerns the doing of work; comp. ch. <a href="/2_thessalonians/2-3.htm" title="Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;">2 Thessalonians 2:3</a>, <span class="greekheb">κατὰ μηδένα τσόπον</span>, <span class="ital">by no means</span>. Paul uses <span class="greekheb">παντὶ τρόπῳ</span> without <span class="greekheb">ἐν</span>, <a href="/philippians/1-18.htm" title="What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretense, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yes, and will rejoice.">Php 1:18</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/2_thessalonians/3.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 16.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Now the Lord of peace himself.</span> In <a href="/1_thessalonians/5-23.htm">1 Thessalonians 5:23</a> it is "the God of peace" who is invoked: "And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly." Here it is Christ who is named as "the Lord of peace." He is the Lord of peace, as the Author, the Procurer, the Mediator of peace. Pease is here to be taken in its widest sense - peace with God, complete salvation. <span class="cmt_word">Give you peace always by all means</span>. Some manuscripts read "in every place," but the reading in our version is best attested - "always by all means;" "at all times and in every way;" whether it be outward or inward, for time or for eternity. The apostle could desire no higher blessing for his converts. <span class="cmt_word">The Lord be with you all.</span> 2 Thessalonians 3:16<a name="vws" id="vws"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/vws/2_thessalonians/3.htm">Vincent's Word Studies</a></div>The Lord of peace (ὁ κύριος τῆς εἰρήνης)<p>The only instance of the formula.<p>By all means (ἐν παντὶ τρόπῳ)<p>Or in every way. 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