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1 Thessalonians 3:12

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

And the Lord make you to increase,.... That is, the Lord the Spirit; so that the object of prayer, addressed by the apostle, is Father, Son, and Spirit, as in Re 1:4. The Alexandrian copy reads "God".

The Spirit is God, equally with the Father and the Son, and so a fit object of prayer with them, which otherwise he would not be.

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