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But the Lord is faithful (pistos de estin ho kurios).
But faithful is the Lord (correct rendition), with a play (paronomasia) on pistis by pistos as in Rom 3:3 we have a word-play on apisteō and apistia. The Lord can be counted on, however perverse men may be.
From the evil one (apo tou ponērou). Apparently a reminiscence of the Lord’s Prayer in Mat 6:13 rusai hēmas apo tou ponērou. But here as there it is not certain whether tou ponērou is neuter (evil) like to ponēron in Rom 12:9 or masculine (the evil one). But we have ho ponēros (the evil one) in 1Jo 5:18 and tou ponērou is clearly masculine in Eph 6:16. If masculine here, as is probable, is it “the Evil One” (Ellicott) or merely the evil man like those mentioned in 2Th 3:2? Perhaps Paul has in mind the representative of Satan, the man of sin, pictured in 2Th 2:1-12, by the phrase here without trying to be too definite.