Verse 12
12. Silvanus Doubtless the companion of St. Paul named in 1 Thessalonians 1:1, and elsewhere, and the Silas of the Acts. He accompanied St. Paul (Acts 15:40) on his second missionary tour through Asia Minor, becoming personally known to many of the Churches.
As I suppose As I judge him to be. St. Peter’s want of personal knowledge of Silvanus’s relation to the Asiatic Churches, explains this modest yet full endorsement of him as unto you the faithful brother.
Written briefly St. Paul’s longer epistle to the Hebrews was “in few words.” Hebrews 13:22.
Exhorting In which the epistle largely abounds.
Testifying And he was competent to give the testimony, that this grace in which they had been instructed, and in which they were then standing, is the true grace of God.
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