4. BDG omit, אACKP insert, the article του before θεου: cf. 1Th 2:4. Possibly the art. is an Alexandrian insertion, due to 1Th 1:3 (εμπροσθεν του θεου). See the note next but two; cf. 2Th 2:13; also Heb 6:18, where the same group (א*ACP) insert the article.