5, 6. Now the God of patience and consolation--Such beautiful names of
God are taken from the graces which He inspires: as "the God of hope"
(Ro 15:13),
"the God of peace"
(Ro 15:33).
grant you to be likeminded--"of the same mind"
according to Christ Jesus--It is not mere unanimity which the apostle
seeks for them; for unanimity in evil is to be deprecated. But it is
"according to Christ Jesus"--after the sublimest model of Him whose
all-absorbing desire was to do, "not His own will, but the will of Him
that sent Him"
(Joh 6:38).
JFB.
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