The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
      IV. His salutation: Greet all the brethren with a holy kiss,1 Thessalonians 5:26; 1 Thessalonians 5:26. Thus the apostle sends a friendly salutation from himself, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, and would have them salute each other in their names; and thus he would have them signify their mutual love and affection to one another by the kiss of charity (1 Peter 5:14), which is here called a holy kiss, to intimate how cautious they should be of all impurity in the use of this ceremony, then commonly practised; as it should not be a treacherous kiss like that of Judas, so not a lascivious kiss like that of the harlot, Proverbs 7:13.