Tièsāluóníjiāhòushū 3:17

17 Wǒ Bǎoluó qīn bǐ wèn nǐmen ān . fán wǒde xìn dōu yǐ cǐ wéi jì . wǒde bǐ jī jiù shì zhèyàng .

Tièsāluóníjiāhòushū 3:17 Meaning and Commentary

2 Thessalonians 3:17

The salutation of Paul with mine own hand
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, ( 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:

Tièsāluóníjiāhòushū 3:17 In-Context

15 Dàn búyào yǐ tā wéi chóurén , yào quàn tā rú dìxiōng .

16 Yuàn cì píngān de zhǔ , suí shí suí shì qīnzì gĕi nǐmen píngān . yuàn zhǔ cháng yǔ nǐmen zhòngrén tóng zaì .

17 Wǒ Bǎoluó qīn bǐ wèn nǐmen ān . fán wǒde xìn dōu yǐ cǐ wéi jì . wǒde bǐ jī jiù shì zhèyàng .

18 Yuàn wǒmen zhǔ Yēsū Jīdū de ēn , cháng yǔ nǐmen zhòngrén tóng zaì .