John Gill's Exposition on 2 Thessalonians 3:17

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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The salutation of Paul with mine own hand, &c.] In writing his epistles, the body and substance of them he used an amanuensis, but the salutation he wrote with his own hand: which is the token in every epistle; by which they might be known to be true and genuine, and be distinguished from counterfeit ones: and the rather he mentions this, that they might be troubled neither by word, nor by spirit, nor by epistle, as from them, as they had been, (<530202>2 Thessalonians 2:2) for it seems that this wicked practice of counterfeiting the epistles of the apostles, or carrying about spurious ones, under their name, began so early; to prevent which, the apostle took this method, so I write, as follows:

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