{Grace to you and peace} (charis humin kai eir(886e)(885c)). As in I
Thess., II Thess., I Cor., II Cor. (already written) and in all
the later Epistles save that in I and II Timothy "mercy" is
added. But this customary salutation (see on 氣Th 1:1|) is not a
perfunctory thing with Paul. He uses it here even when he has so
much fault to find just as he did in I and II Corinthians.