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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God … The sentence may have to be restructured, for example, ‘we will have grace, mercy, and peace, given/shown/caused by God …,’ ‘God … will give/show us (or cause us to have) grace, mercy, and peace.’ Where grace and mercy are to be rendered by verbal or adjectival expressions, one may say something like, ‘God … will favor us, will be merciful towards us, and will make us dwell in peace.’ Grace, or ‘favor,’ ‘gracious care/help,’ often occurs in formulas
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