Video Notes:

• I wanted to include this as its own reading because so often we treat these closing passages as throw away lines.
• Silvanus – A real person. This is actual history and an actual letter.
• This is true.
• This is grace. It is a gift.
• I exhort you to stand firm in your faith.
• She (church) in Babylon (Rome)
• My son Mark (likely the evangelist)
• Kiss of love (cultural tradition which isn’t typically practiced today)
• Peace which only comes from Christ