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Our God and Father himself (autos ho theos kai patēr hēmōn). Note one article with both substantives for one person.
And our Lord Jesus (kai ho Kurios hēmōn Iēsous). Separate article here with Iēsous. In Tit 2:13; 2Pe 1:1 only one article (not two) treating “our God and Saviour Jesus Christ” as one just like “our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ” in 2Pe 1:11; 2Pe 2:20; 2Pe 3:18.
Direct our way (kateuthunai tēn hodon hēmōn). First aorist optative (acute accent on penult, not circumflex first aorist active infinitive) of kateuthunō, old verb to make straight path. Singular verb also, though both God and Christ mentioned as subject (unity in the Godhead). Apart from mē genoito (may it not come to pass) the optative in a wish of the third person is found in N.T. only in 1Th 3:11, 1Th 3:12; 1Th 5:23; 2Th 2:17; 2Th 3:5, 2Th 3:16; Rom 15:5, Rom 15:13.