2 THESSALONIANS 2:3 avnomi,aj {B} Did the apostle write “man of sin,” as most witnesses read, or “man of lawlessness,” as a B 81 88mg 1739 copsa, bo arm Marcion Tertullian and others attest? Despite...
Verse 2 Thessalonians 2:3. _EXCEPT THERE COME A FALLING AWAY FIRST_] We have the original word αποστασια in our word _apostasy_; and by this term we understand a _dereliction of the essential princip...
LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU BY ANY MEANS - That is, respecting the coming of the Lord Jesus. This implies that there were then attempts to deceive, and that it was of great importance for Christians to be...
II. WHAT PRECEDES THE MANIFESTATION OF THE LORD CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The gathering of the saints preceding that day (2 Thessalonians 2:1)_ 2. The apostasy and the man of sin (2 Thessalonians 2:3) 3. The...
THE MISCONCEPTION OF THE PAROUSIA. This section forms the heart of the epistle. The previous chapter is merely an introduction, and the following chapter merely a conclusion, to this paragraph. The Th...
Brothers, in regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and in regard to our being gathered to him, we ask you not to be readily shaken in your mind and not to get into a state of nervous excitemen...
THE LAWLESS ONE (2 Thessalonians 2:1-12)...
NO MAN. not (App-105) any one (App-123) DECEIVE. Greek. _exaptao_. See Romans 7:11. BY ANY MEANS. Literally according to (App-104) no (Greek. _medeis)_ way.. double negative for emphasis. FOR. beca...
_Let no_man _deceive you by any means_ BEGUILE YOU, as the Revisers commonly render this Greek verb, and the A. V. in 2 Corinthians 11:3; 1 Timothy 2:14, and Romans 7:11 (comp....
Section III. The Revelation of the Lawless One Ch. 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 In this Epistle, as in the former, the specfic object of the letter comes into view at the beginning of the second chapter, s...
ΤΗΣ ΑΝΟΜΙΑΣ, in אB with ten minn., cop sah arm, Tert Amb Ambrst: της αμαρτιας, ADGLP &c. latt vg syrr. The consistency of the former reading with της ανομιας and ο ανομος in 2 Thessalonians 2:7 f., wh...
§ 3. 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12. THE REVELATION OF THE LAWLESS ONE In this Epistle, as in the First, the principal aim of the Letter discloses itself in the second chapter, after the opening act of praise...
ΈΞΑΠΑΤΉΣΗ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΈΞΑΠΑΤΆΩ (G1818) обманывать, полностью сбивать с толку, успешно обманывать (МН, 311). _Conj._ с отр. ΜΉ (G3361) выражает запрет. _Conj._ запрета употребляется в форме 3...
FOR THAT DAY SHALL NOT COME, EXCEPT, &C.— "The day of Christ shall not come, except there come the apostacy first." The apostacy here described is plainly not of a civil, but of a religious nature; no...
TEXT (2 Thessalonians 2:3) 3 LET NO MAN BEGUILE YOU IN ANY WISE; FOR _IT WILL NOT_ BE, EXCEPT THE FALLING AWAY COME FIRST, AND THE MAN OF SIN BE REVEALED, THE SON OF PERDITION, Translation and Parap...
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; BY ANY MEANS - Greek, 'in any manner...
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...
THE GREAT APOSTASY 2. Spirit] i.e. a pretended revelation uttered by a false prophet. LETTER AS FROM US] perhaps a forged letter (the probable meaning), cp. 2 Thessalonians 3:17, or a misunderstandin...
FALLING AWAY] Gk. 'apostasy.'...
THE *LORD HAS NOT COME YET 2 THE THESSALONIANS _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 2 THE *LORD HAS NOT COME YET 2:1-2 V1 Now *brothers and *sisters, do not worry about the return of our *Lord Jesus Christ....
EXCURSUS ON THE INTERPRETATION OF THE PROPHECY, 2 Thessalonians 2:3 IN order to deal fairly with this difficult passage, it will be necessary sternly to exclude from our view all other passages of the...
LET NO MAN... BY ANY MEANS. — “Whatever device they may adopt — spirit, letter, or what not — they are deceivers or deceived; do not be duped by them.” The form of warning is a mark of St. Paul’s styl...
CHAPTER 19 THE MAN OF SIN 2 Thessalonians 2:1 (R.V.) IN the first chapter of this Epistle Paul depicted the righteous judgment of God which accompanies the advent of Christ. Its terrors and its glor...
καὶ ἀποκ., the apostasy and the appearance (so of Beliar, _Asc. Isa._, iv. 18) of the personal anti-Christ or pseudo-Christ form a single phenomenon. From the use of ἡ ἀποστασία as a Greek equivalent...
UNTROUBLED BY THREATENING RUMORS 2 Thessalonians 2:1 The Apostle sets himself to correct certain erroneous impressions which had unsettled the church in Thessalonica. Notice how reverently he speaks...
The apostle now stated clearly the order of events connected with the Second Advent of Jesus. He first announced the distinction between the two things that they were evidently confusing: ''the Coming...
Let no man deceive you by any means: (3) for [that day shall not come], except there come a falling away first, and (e) that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; (3) The apostle foretells th...
First, &c.[2] What is meant by this falling away, (in the Greek this apostacy) is uncertain, and differently expounded. St. Jerome and others understand it of a falling off of other kingdoms, which be...
(3) В¶ Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; (4) Who opposeth and exalteth hi...
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...
_THE SECOND COMING_ ‘Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto Him.’ 2 Thessalonians 2:1 When will this ‘gathering’ be? It will be at...
_THE SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST_ ‘That day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.’ 2 Thessalonians 2:3 The spirit of Antichrist is...
3_Let no man deceive you_. That they may not groundlessly promise themselves the arrival in so short a time of the joyful day of redemption, he presents to them a melancholy prediction as to the futur...
In answering this error, and in guarding them from the wily efforts of seducers, he puts everything in its place here by appealing to precious truths of which he had already spoken. Their gathering to...
LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU BY ANY MEANS,.... By any of the above means; by pretending to a revelation from the Spirit; or to have had it from the mouth of anyone of the apostles; or to have a letter as fr...
Let no man deceive you by any means: for _that day shall not come_, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Ver. 3. _Except there come a falling...
_Let no man deceive you by any means_ By any of these ways fore-mentioned, or any other; for _that day shall not come, unless a falling away_, η αποστασια, _the apostacy, come first_ The _article_ her...
A FALLING AWAY; a great apostasy from the faith and practice of the gospel. THAT MAN OF SIN; the words "man of sin" are to be understood not of any single person, but of a wicked system presided over...
LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU BY ANY MEANS; FOR THAT DAY SHALL NOT COME EXCEPT THERE COME A FALLING AWAY FIRST, AND THAT MAN OF SIN BE REVEALED, THE SON OF PERDITION;...
THE MAN OF SIN AND THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY. The coming of Anti-Christ before the end:...
In the first twelve verses of this chapter we are now presented with the striking, central message of the epistle. These things are not intended to satisfy indolent curiosity or to stir the excitement...
A strong warning is given to any who would "beguile" them wheter through wicked intent or mislead into wrong thinking. Church history shows how many are quickly lead away by every new fad that comes a...
“LET NO MAN BEGUILE YOU IN ANY WISE: FOR IT WILL NOT BE, EXCEPT THE FALLING AWAY COME FIRST, AND THE MAN OF SIN BE REVEALED, THE SON OF PERDITION” “Let no man beguile you”: To seduce wholly, to beguil...
1-4 If errors arise among Christians, we should set them right; and good men will be careful to suppress errors which rise from mistaking their words and actions. We have a cunning adversary, who wat...
OLBGrk; LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU: here the apostle urgeth again his charge against this error, though in other words, and begins his arguments to refute it. He had adjured them not to be shaken, and her...
let no man beguile you in any wise: for it will not be, except the falling away come first [Paul uses the article "the" because this apostasy was well known to the church, its coming having been annou...
Dialogue of Justin O unreasoning men! understanding not what has been proved by all these passages, that two advents of Christ have been announced: the one, in which He is set forth as suffering, ing...
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‘Let no man beguile you in any way, for it will not be except the rebellion come first, and the man of sin (or ‘lawlessness') be revealed, the son of perdition, he who opposes and exalts himself again...
EXCURSUS ON MAN OF SIN. 2 Thessalonians 2:3-12. The obscurity of this passage arises partly from its prophetic character, partly from the circumstance that Paul is merely referring to what he had alr...
2 Thessalonians 2:3. LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU BY ANY MEANS, either by professing superior enlightenment as if a spirit spoke through him, or by interpreting my words as if I had meant what he affirms....
_Instruction regarding the Coming of the Man of Sin, his Power, Falsneness, and Destruction._ In order to remove the misunderstanding and allay the anxieties regarding our Lord's coming which had aris...
LET NO MAN BEGUILE YOU IN ANY WISE (μη τις υμας εξαπατηση κατα μηδενα τροπον). First aorist active subjunctive of εξαπαταω (old verb to deceive, strengthened form of simple verb απαταω) with double...
FOR THAT DAY The order of events is: (1) The working of the mystery of lawlessness under divine restraint which had already begun in the apostle's time (2 Thessalonians 2:7). (2) the apostasy of th...
2 Thessalonians 2:1 I. The first part of this second Epistle aims at widening the view of the Thessalonian converts into the future the future bliss of believers, the future doom of the rebellious. Th...
2 Thessalonians 2:1. _Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spiri...
CONTENTS: Day of the Lord and the man of sin. Exhortation and instruction. CHARACTERS: Christ, Holy Spirit, anti-christ, Satan, Paul. CONCLUSION: The blessed hope of Christ's coming is a doctrine wit...
2 Thessalonians 2:1. _We beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord,_ the only hope of the saints, _and by our gathering together to him._ By the coming of our Lord reference must be had to the...
FOR THE DAY WILL NOT COME UNTIL. Paul had already told them about this (_see_ 2 Thessalonians 2:5). But no one has any way of knowing just what Paul said to them. THE FINAL REBELLION TAKES PLACE. Prot...
_Let no man deceive you by any means; for that day shall not come except there come a falling away first _ CHRIST AND ANTICHRIST The most marked Features in this passage are-- I. A caricature of Ch...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 2 Thessalonians 2:1. BESEECH … BY THE COMING OF OUR LORD.—The English reader who consults the similar phrase “to beseech by” in Romans 12:1 will be wholly astray. St P...
EXPOSITION CONTENTS.—The apostle now proceeds to the principal object which he had in view in writing this Epistle. The Thessalonians had adopted erroneous notions concerning the advent; they supposed...
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, [in virtue of this, because of this] and are gathering together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neit...
1 Corinthians 6:9; 1 John 2:18; 1 Timothy 4:1; 2 Thessalonians 2:8;...
Deceive [ε ξ α π α τ η σ η]. Better beguile; since the word means not only making a false impression, but actually leading astray. Except there come a falling away. Before except insert in translatio...
THE SECOND COMING IN THESSALONIANS 2 Thessalonians 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS You are, perhaps, aware that the Second Coming of Christ holds a very important place in both of Paul's Epistles to the chur...
Unless the falling away — From the pure faith of the gospel, come first. This began even in the apostolic age. But the man of sin, the son of perdition — Eminently so called, is not come yet. However,...
As if the apostle had said, "Let no man deceive you in this article of your faith, by any pretence whatsoever; for before Christ's coming there shall come. great falling away from the catholic faith,...