the Lord--who ought to be "loved" above Paul, Apollos, and all other teachers. Love to one another is to be in connection with love to Him above all. Ignatius [Epistle to the Romans, 7] writes of Christ, "My love, has been crucified" (compare [So 2:7]).
Jesus Christ--omitted in the oldest manuscripts.
let him be Anathema--accursed with that curse which the Jews who call Jesus "accursed" ([1Co 12:3]) are bringing righteously on their own heads [Bengel]. So far from "saluting" him, I bid him be accursed.
Maranatha--Syriac for, "the Lord cometh." A motto or watchword to urge them to preparedness for the Lord's coming; as in [Php 4:5], "The Lord is at hand."
23. The grace, &c.--This is the salutation meant in [1Co 16:21]; and from which unbelievers ([1Co 16:22]; compare 2Jo 10:11) are excluded [Bengel].
24. My love, &c.--After having administered some severe rebukes, he closes with expressions of "love": his very rebukes were prompted by love, and therefore are altogether in harmony with the profession of love here made: it was love in Christ Jesus, and therefore embraced "all" who loved Him.
The subscription represents the Epistle as written from Philippi. [1Co 16:8] shows it was written at Ephesus. Bengel conjectures that perhaps, however, it was sent from Philippi ([1Co 16:5]), because the deputies of the Corinthians had accompanied Paul thither. From Ephesus there was a road to Corinth above Philippi.