Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
(See on II Corinthians 13:14.) Paul ends as he began (I Thessalonians 1:1), with "grace." The oldest manuscripts omit "Amen," which probably was the response of the Church after the public reading of the Epistle.
The subscription is a comparatively modern addition. The Epistle was not, as it states, written from Athens, but from Corinth; for it is written in the names of Silas and Timothy (besides Paul), who did not join the apostle before he reached the latter city (Acts 18:5).
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