What is the context?
After warnings about deception and disorder, Paul asks the Lord of peace to give peace in every circumstance. The blessing includes all the believers, keeping the letter’s corrections within a concern for the whole assembly.
Paul draws attention to his own handwriting as the letter’s identifying mark. This matters after the earlier warning about a letter seeming to come from the apostles. The closing grace returns the readers to the Lord Jesus on whom their faithfulness depends.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley identifies the Lord of peace as Christ. The signature serves the letter’s concern with authentic instruction; it does not tell us who physically wrote every earlier line or establish that every letter Paul ever sent has survived. The final blessing gives grace to the same community asked to hear difficult correction.
What is our position?
We don't have a position on this passage yet. When our study reaches a conclusion the text supports, it will appear here.