cannot experience the latter apart from the former. God’s peace, moreover, is associated by Paul with relational concord among God’s people so that the Gk. sense of εἰρήνη remains on the horizon, as well (cf. Eph 2:14–18; Col 3:13b; Fee 71 n. 62). ἀπὸ θεοῦ πατρὸς ἡμῶν καὶ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ We would expect θεοῦ πατρός to have an art. since it is modified by the pers. pron. ἡμῶν; the stylized formula (ἀπὸ θεοῦ πατρὸς ἡμῶν) of Paul’s salutations, however, accounts for the anar. cstr. here (BDF §