This information is not new. Paul preached about these things when he was there in person. The readers are now remined of that teaching. The word "told" means a repetition of the teaching (as a parent says, "I told you a 1,000 times to stop that.")
Verse 5. _I TOLD YOU THESE THINGS_] In several parts of this description of the _man of sin_, the apostle alludes to a conversation which had taken place between him and the members of this Church wh...
REMEMBER YE NOT, THAT, WHEN I WAS YET WITH YOU, I TOLD YOU THESE THINGS? - The whole subject of the second coming of the Saviour seems to have constituted an important part of the instructions of Paul...
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)...
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...
_Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these_things?] More precisely, I USED TO TELL YOU; comp. 1 Thessalonians 3:4, for the _tense_. This reminder serves two purposes: (1) It is...
D* Ambrst, ετι εμου οντος, for ΕΤΙ ΩΝ. 5. ΟΥ̓ ΜΝΗΜΟΝΕΎΕΤΕ ὍΤΙ ἜΤΙ ὬΝ ΠΡῸΣ ὙΜΑ͂Σ ΤΑΥ͂ΤΑ ἜΛΕΓΟΝ ὙΜΙ͂Ν; _Do you not remember that when I was still with you, I used to tell you these things?_ cf. 1 Corint...
§ 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...
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REMEMBER YE NOT, &C.— The apostle thought it a part of his duty, as he made it a part of his preaching and doctrine, to forewarn his new converts of the grand apostacy that would infest the church, ev...
TEXT (2 Thessalonians 2:5) 5 REMEMBER YE NOT, THAT, WHEN I WAS YET WITH YOU, I TOLD YOU THESE THINGS? Translation and Paraphrase 5. Don-'t you remember (how) that when I was still with you, I kept...
Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? REMEMBER ... - confuting those who suppose Paul erred in his first letter as to Christ's immediate coming, and now corrects...
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...
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....
REMEMBER YE NOT. — A rebuke of the same character as Romans 6:3; 1 Corinthians 6:19, and, like those, levelled at ignorance of what in apostolic days were thought the six fundamental points of Christi...
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...
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...
It was no after-thought, on Paul's part (the singular rules out Spitta's idea that Timothy wrote this apocalyptic piece). Nor was it an idiosyncrasy of his teaching. Especially since the days of Antio...
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...
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MAN OF SIN Paul said the man of sin is continually opposed to anyone other than himself being lifted up in man's eyes or worshipped. So jealous is he of anyone, or thing, being...
(5) Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? (5) This prophecy was continually declared to the ancient Church, but it was neglected by those that followed....
(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...
5_Do ye not remember? _This added no small weight to the doctrine, that they had previously heard it from the mouth of Paul, that they might not think that it had been contrived by him at the instant....
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...
REMEMBER YE NOT, THAT WHEN I WAS YET WITH YOU,.... At Thessalonica, for the apostle had been there in person, and had preached there with great boldness and success; he had declared the whole counsel...
Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? Ver. 5. _Remember ye not_] Satan usually hides from us that which should help us. But as the soul should be as it were a holy...
_Remember ye not_, &c. These things were not asserted now merely to serve the present occasion: the apostle had spoken, yea, and borne a faithful testimony concerning them while he was at Thessalonica...
THESE THINGS; that there would be a great apostasy before the coming of Christ to judgment. Of course that event was not near. Verse 2 Thessalonians 2:2. The rise and progress of the papacy and all it...
REMEMBER YE NOT THAT, WHEN I WAS YET WITH YOU, I TOLD YOU THESE THINGS?...
The revelation of the mystery of iniquity:...
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...
“REMEMBER YE NOT, THAT, WHEN. WAS YET WITH YOU,. TOLD YOU THESE THINGS?” “Remember ye not”: “This little verse has surely been included in the sacred Scriptures to blast forever out of existence any...
5-12 Something hindered or withheld the man of sin. It is supposed to be the power of the Roman empire, which the apostle did not mention more plainly at that time. Corruption of doctrine and worship...
The apostle tacitly upbraids them for their forgetfulness. To forget the things that have been taught us, is a great evil: Solomon often cautions against it, PROVERBS 3:1, PROVERBS 4:5; and it is ofte...
Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? [Literally, was telling. He had repeated the instruction often, and now reproves the Thessalonians for forgetting what he did s...
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‘Do you not remember that when I was with you I told you these things?' How we would love to hear what he had told them, but we do not know, nor do we know its extent. But it seemingly ties up with s...
2 Thessalonians 2:5. This verse is inserted with a slight accent of surprise not altogether unmingled with reproach that they should have made so little of the instruction he had orally given them....
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...
_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...
WHEN I WAS YET WITH YOU (ετ ων προς υμας). The present participle takes the time of the verb ελεγον (imperfect active),I USED TO TELL YOU THESE THINGS . So Paul recalls their memory of his words a...
2 Thessalonians 2:5 Can we fix down the description of the man of sin to any one system or person? or ought we simply to say, with Augustine, that we must remain in total ignorance as to the Apostle'...
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...
DON'T YOU REMEMBER? No one has any way of knowing just what Paul did tell them. But it is very unlikely that he gave them any secret information. The New Testament gives us Paul's _"understanding of t...
2 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 2 THESSALONIANS 2:5 The man of lawlessness cannot be unveiled while WHAT IS RESTRAINING HIM NOW is at work. Paul refers also to he who now restrains
2 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 2 THESSALONIANS 2:1 Disproving the False Claim about the Day of the Lord. Paul reassures the Thessalonians that the day of the Lord has not come. In...
_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 Thessalonians 2:11; 2 Peter 1:15; 2 Thessalonians 3:10; Acts 20:31;...
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...
Observe here, That the doctrine of the rise and ruin of Antichrist is necessary to be made known; for though these things were not to come to pass in their days, yet St. Paul taught them before when p...