Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV
And the apostle in like manner says [of them], "Who shall be punished with everlasting death from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of His power, when He shall come to be glorified in His saints, and to be admired in those who believe in Him."[502]
Verse 9. _WHO SHALL BE PUNISHED_] What this _everlasting_ _destruction_ consists in we cannot tell. It is not _annihilation_, for their _being_ continues; and as the destruction is _everlasting_, it...
WHO SHALL BE PUNISHED WITH EVERLASTING DESTRUCTION; - see the notes on Matthew 25:41, Matthew 25:46. The word which is here rendered “destruction” (ὄλεθρον olethron), is different from that which oc...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE REVELATION OF THE LORD JESUS FROM HEAVEN CHAPTER 1 _ 1. Salutation and thanksgiving (2 Thessalonians 1:1)_ 2. The revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven (2 Thessa...
Introductory. Thanksgiving for the past and prayer for the future. Paul thanks God for the growing love of the Thessalonian Christians and their loyalty under persecution, and prays that they may be c...
Paul and Silas and Timothy send this letter to the Church of the Thessalonians which is in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Brothers, we ought always to thank God for you, as it is fitting, b...
LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS (2 Thessalonians 1:1-10)...
BE PUNISHED WITH. pay (Greek. _tino_. Only here) the penalty (App-177.), (_even_). EVERLASTING. App-151. DESTRUCTION. Greek. _olethros._ See 1 Corinthians 5:5. GLORY. See p. 1511. POWER. App-172....
Section II. The Approaching Retribution Ch. 2 Thessalonians 1:5-12 These _vv._contain further reasons for _thanksgiving_on the writer's part, concluding with a _prayer_that his readers may receive th...
_who shall be punished_with _everlasting destruction_ Rather, MEN WHO WILL PAY THE PENALTY OF ETERNAL DESTRUCTION. In these awful words the Apostle describes the retribution designed for godless men a...
§ 2. 2 Thessalonians 1:5-12. THE APPROACHING JUDGEMENT The thought of the recompense awaiting the persecuted Thessalonian Church and its persecutors, respectively, swells the opening thanksgiving of t...
ΟἽΤΙΝΕΣ ΔΊΚΗΝ ΤΊΣΟΥΣΙΝ ὌΛΕΘΡΟΝ ΑἸΏΝΙΟΝ, _who shall pay a just penalty, even eternal destruction_. Ὅστις, generic and qualitative, implying a reason in stating the fact—“qui (quum ita sint) poenam pend...
ΟΪΤΙΝΕΣ _пот. pl. от_ ΔΣΤΙΣ (G3748) кто. Rel. _pron._ является обобщающим и указывает на всех, принадлежащих к определенному классу: "подобные люди" (Best; МТ, 47f; IBG, 123f; MKG, 174f). ΔΊΚΗ (G1349...
DISCOURSE: 2211 CHRIST’S COMING TO JUDGE THE WORLD 2 Thessalonians 1:7. The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God,...
FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD,— This phrase expresses not only that they shall be expelled from that joy and glory which reigns in the presence of Christ, but that his presence shall appear active in...
TEXT (2 Thessalonians 1:9) 9 WHO SHALL SUFFER PUNISHMENT, _EVEN_ ETERNAL DESTRUCTION FROM THE FACE OF THE LORD AND FROM THE GLORY OF HIS MIGHT, Translation and Paraphrase 9. (These) who (are disob...
Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; WHO, [ hoitines (G3748)] - 'persons who,' etc. EVERLASTING, [ aioonion (G166)]....
While Silvanus and Timothy are associated with Paul in this salutation, the epistle is practically by Paul himself and its genuineness is attested at the close by Paul's own signature (2Th_3:17). THA...
SALUTATIONS. THE SECOND ADVENT 1-4. Greeting and thanksgiving for their constant faith and love and patience under persecution: cp. 1 Thessalonians 1:3. 5-C. 2 THESSALONIANS 2:17. The Coming of Chri...
THE EVERLASTING DESTRUCTION (only here) consists in exclusion from God's presence....
THE *LORD HAS NOT COME YET 2 THE THESSALONIANS _IAN MACKERVOY_ ABOUT THE LETTER 1 THE WRITERS Like 1 Thessalonians, this letter is from Paul, Silas and Timothy. The writer of this letter used th...
PUNISHED WITH EVERLASTING DESTRUCTION specifies the “vengeance” to be taken. But the word “destruction” does not stand absolutely and alone as a synonym for “annihilation.” This passage, in itself, gi...
CHAPTER 18 SUFFERING AND GLORY 2 Thessalonians 1:5 (R.V.) IN the preceding verses of this chapter, as in the opening of the First Epistle, the Apostle has spoken of the afflictions of the Thessaloni...
The overwhelming manifestation of the divine glory sweeps from before it (pregnant ἀπὸ) into endless ruin the disobedient (Psalms 76:7) _men who_ (see Moulton, 91 f.) _shall pay the penalty of_ (see P...
FAITHFUL THROUGH FAITH IN A RIGHTEOUS GOD 2 Thessalonians 1:1 Notice the remarkable couplets of this chapter. Grace and peace, 2 Thessalonians 1:2; faith and love, 2 Thessalonians 1:3
Evidently, this letter was intended primarily to correct certain mistakes which the Thessalonians were making concerning the Second Advent. They were failing to distinguish between the two phases, the...
PUNISHMENT The apostle said Jesus would come in flaming fire and take "vengeance," which is from the same root as "righteous" in verses 5 and 6. The punishment for wrongs committed against God and man...
Being confounded with the face of the Lord, whom they have rejected, and with the glory of his power and greatness, which will appear in irresistible splendour and majesty....
(7) And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, (8) In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey no...
The second epistle takes up another difficulty. It was written in view of another abuse of the truth of the Lord's coming a danger that threatened the saints. As the first epistle was intended to guar...
9_. Everlasting destruction from the face_. He shews, by apposition, what is the nature of the punishment of which he had made mention — destruction without end, and an undying death. The perpetuity o...
In the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, the apostle corrects some errors into which these disciples had fallen with regard to the day of the Lord through certain false teachers; as in part of the...
WHO SHALL BE PUNISHED WITH EVERLASTING DESTRUCTION,.... With destruction both of soul and body, though not with the annihilation of either; their gnawing worm of conscience will never die, and the fir...
Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; Ver. 9. _Who shall be punished_] Here is the pain of sense, of eternity, of extremit...
_Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction_ Not the annihilation, but the perversion and utter ruin of all their powers of body and mind, so that those powers become instruments of torment an...
EVERLASTING DESTRUCTION FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD; their destruction consists in everlasting banishment from God's presence and the glory of his power, and the everlasting endurance of God's wrath...
PAUL'S PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING AND INTERCESSION. A prayer of thanksgiving for steadfastness in the midst of afflictions:...
WHO SHALL BE PUNISHED WITH EVERLASTING DESTRUCTION FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD, AND FROM THE GLORY OF HIS POWER,...
(V. 1) Again, the same brotherly character of address is used as in the first epistle. The threatened dangers to the Thessalonians did not change this, except in the use of the more gentle expression...
Vengeance belongs to God, not man. Daniel 7:13-14 teaches that Jesus will be given a kingdom, dominion and authority to execute judgment. "Vengenace" does not indicate a vindictive spirit of retaliati...
“WHO SHALL SUFFER PUNISHMENT, EVEN ETERNAL DESTRUCTION FROM THE FACE OF THE LORD AND FROM THE GLORY OF HIS MIGHT” “Who”: The groups just previously mentioned, this would include everyone outside of C...
5-10 Religion, if worth anything, is worth every thing; and those have no religion, or none worth having, or know not how to value it, cannot find their hearts to suffer for it. We cannot by all our...
OLBGrk; This is the vengeance before spoken of; it is here called DESTRUCTION, not an annihilation, and cessation of being, but of all well-being: and elsewhere called _death,_ ROMANS 6:23, and _the s...
who shall suffer punishment, even eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,...
2 Thessalonians 1:9 These G3748 punished G1349 G5099 (G5692) everlasting G166 destruction G3639 from G575 presence...
‘Who will suffer punishment, even eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of His might.' This is their greatest punishment, that they will not see His face or observe and expe...
2 Thessalonians 1:9. ETERNAL DESTRUCTION. This is the penalty to be paid by those who reject the Gospel and will not know God a destruction which is to be rendered permanent by the severance of those...
_Salutation Thanksgiving for the Faith of the Thessalonian Church under Persecution, Assurance of Compensation, and Prayer for the perfecting of their Faith._ Paul informs the Thessalonians of the emo...
WHO (οιτινες). Qualitative use, such as. Vanishing in papyri though surviving in Paul (1 Corinthians 3:17; Romans 1:25; Galatians 4:26;...
2 Thessalonians 1:7 The rest awaiting Christ's troubled saints is in the fullest sense to be their possession at the revelation of the Lord Jesus. He who is emphatically the coming One is to be revea...
2 Thessalonians 1:1. _Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians_ Paul loved to associate his fellow-workers with himself when writing to his brethren and sisters in Chri...
2 Thessalonians 1:1. _Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord J...
CONTENTS: Believer's comfort in persecution. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Silvanus, Timothy. CONCLUSION: The patient suffering of believers for Christ's sake, is a manifest token that they are wor...
2 Thessalonians 1:1. _Paul, and Silvanus,_ [the Roman name of Silas] _and Timotheus, to the church of the Thessalonians, in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ._ The inscription is the same as in...
THEY WILL SUFFER THE PUNISHMENT. The human family is already under the sentence of death. Jesus offers a way to escape God's wrath! Those who refuse to escape, bring on themselves the consequences. Se...
_Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord._ THE PUNISHMENT OF THE WICKED I. Generally. We have here-- 1. The estate “destruction” (1 Thessalonians 5:3; Matthe...
_When the Lord Jesus Christ shall be revealed from heaven--This passage both consolatory and doctrinal--consolation designed for a persecuted Church--instruction for the world._ Our subject: the gene...
2 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 2 THESSALONIANS 1:9 ETERNAL DESTRUCTION. Unbelievers will not simply cease to exist. See Matthew 25:46;...
2 THESSALONIANS 1:3 Thanksgiving and Comfort for the Persecuted Thessalonians. In Greek, vv. 2 Thessalonians 1:3 are one long sentence expressing Paul’s gratefulness and words of encouragement
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 2 Thessalonians 1:8. IN FLAMING FIRE.—Lit. “in a fire of flame.” “Fire is a symbol of divine anger and majesty in Scripture; and flame is fire in motion, leaping and b...
EXPOSITION CONTENTS.—Paul, after the address and salutation, commences this Epistle by rendering thanks to God for the welcome intelligence he had received of the increase of the faith and love of his...
Paul had come to Thessalonica with the gospel of Jesus Christ from Philippi where, as the result of his preaching, he had been imprisoned, beaten and really ordered out of the city. There in Thessalon...
2 Peter 2:17; 2 Peter 3:7; 2 Thessalonians 2:8; Daniel 12:2;...
Shall be punished [δ ι κ η ν τ ι σ ο υ σ ι ν]. The verb (N. T. o.) means to pay or render. Lit. shall pay penalty. Everlasting destruction [ο λ ε θ ρ ο ν α ι ω ν ι ο ν]. The phrase nowhere else in N....
From the glory of his power — Tremble, ye stout — hearted. Everlasting destruction — As there can be no end of their sins, (the same enmity against God continuing,) so neither of their punishment; sin...
Will the wicked be annihilated or suffer conscious punishment forever? PROBLEM: In some passages of Scripture, like this one, it speaks of the wicked being “destroyed” by God, suffering “the second de...
Observe here, The tremendous dreadfulness of that wrath and vengeance which at the great day will be inflicted on the ignorant and disobedient part of mankind; to denote the greatness of it, it is cal...