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2Th_1:12. Τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ κυρίου ἡμ . Ἰησοῦ ] The name of our Lord Jesus, i.e. so far as He is the κύριος , the Lord; comp. Php_2:9 ff. Arbitrarily, de Wette: Christ, so far as He is recognised and known. Still more arbitrarily Turretin, Moldenhauer, Koppe, and others: ὄνομα κυρίου is a mere circumlocution for κύριος .
ἐν αὐτῷ ] refers not to Ἰησοῦ (so Alford), but to τὸ ὄνομα ; and the giving prominence to the mutual reciprocity, ἐν ὑμῖν καὶ ὑμεῖς ἐν αὐτῷ , is an exhaustive representation. Comp. Gal_6:14; 1Co_6:13.
κατὰ τὴν χάριν τοῦ Θεοῦ ἡμῶν καὶ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ ] according to the grace of our God and of the (see Winer, p. 113 [E. T. 154]) Lord Jesus. According to Hofmann and Riggenbach, Christ is here named both our God and our Lord,—an interpretation which, indeed, grammatically is no less allowable than the interpretation of the doxology, ὁ ὢν ἐπὶ πάντων Θεὸς εὐλογητὸς εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας , Rom_9:5, as an apposition to ὁ Χριστός , but is equally inadmissible, as it would contain an un-Pauline thought; on account of which also Hilgenfeld, Ztschr. f. d. wiss. Theol., Halle 1862, p. 264, in the interest of the supposed spuriousness of the Epistle, has forthwith appropriated to himself this discovery of Hofmann.