Benediction and Farewell.
2 Thessalonians 3:17. The salutation: the circulation of forged epistles (cf. 2 Thessalonians 2:2) made it necessary for Paul to add at the end of his letters a signature in his own handwriting (1 Corinthians 16:21; Galatians 6:11). The main body of the epistle was generally dictated to an amanuensis.