Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
Ver. 1. In God our Father, and the Lord, &c.] As God is in his people of a truth,1 Corinthians 14:25, so are they in God; and as Christ is at God's right hand, so is the Church at Christ's right hand, Psalms 45:9. Yea, they are in him, and part of him, &c.