2 Corinthians 1:2
2 Corinthians 1:22Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Understood as the standard apostolic greeting. Its identical repetition across the letters is read as evidence of nothing more than a fixed epistolary form — Jesus named alongside the Father because he is the appointed mediator through whom Jehovah deals with the congregation.
Take this one as the second or third stop rather than the first, and let the sameness register. Paul is writing to a congregation he has had a painful history with, and the opening is word for word what he wrote in the first letter, and in Galatians, Ephesians and Philippians. Whatever else is variable in Paul, this is not. What makes the constancy significant is that Paul is a monotheistic Jew writing to churches full of former pagans — precisely the context in which he would be most careful about who gets named as the source of divine blessing. Anything careless here would invite the misunderstanding he spends whole chapters guarding against elsewhere. And still, in every letter, the Son stands with the Father under a single "from." The absence is as telling as the presence. Thirteen letters, and no angel, no patriarch, no apostle is ever named in that slot. Compare , , .