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Verse 7. _FOR THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY DOTH ALREADY WORK_] There is a
system of corrupt doctrine, which will lead to the general apostasy,
already in existence, but it is a _mystery_; it is as yet _hi...
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FOR THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY - On the meaning of the word mystery, see
the notes on Romans 11:25; compare 1 Corinthians 2:7; Ephesians 1:9;...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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THE LAWLESS ONE (2 Thessalonians 2:1-12)...
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MYSTERY. App-193.
INIQUITY. lawlessness. App-128.
WORK. work actively, as 1 Thessalonians 2:13.
LETTETH. holds fast. Greek. _katecho,_ as 2 Thessalonians 2:6. Supply
the Ellipsis by " _there is_ one...
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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...
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_For the mystery of iniquity doth already work_ Better, OF LAWLESSNESS
(R. V.) same word as that we adopted from the marginal Revised reading
of 2 Thessalonians 2:3; comp. "the lawless one," 2 Thessal...
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ΤῸ ΓᾺΡ ΜΥΣΤΉΡΙΟΝ ἬΔΗ ἘΝΕΡΓΕΙ͂ΤΑΙ
ΤΗ͂Σ�. _For the mystery is already working_ (or _set in
operation_)—(_that_) _of lawlessness_. For ἐνεργεῖται,
see note on 1 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Thessalonians 2:7 ex...
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§ 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...
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TEXT (2 Thessalonians 2:6-7)
6 AND NOW YE KNOW THAT WHICH RESTRAINETH, TO THE END THAT HE MAY BE
REVEALED IN HIS OWN SEASON. 7 FOR THE MYSTERY OF LAWLESSNESS DOTH
ALREADY WORK: ONLY _THERE IS_ ONE TH...
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For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now
letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY - the counterwork to "the mystery of
godliness (1 Timothy...
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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...
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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...
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MYSTERY] This word in NT. always denotes something once hidden, but
now revealed, or soon to be revealed (1 Corinthians 4:1; Colossians
2:2; Colossians 4:3;...
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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....
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FOR. — Logically, the “for” belongs to the clause “he that
letteth;” thus:” For, although the mystery is already at work, the
wicked one will not be revealed until he that now withholds shall
disappea...
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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...
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CHAPTER 20
THE RESTRAINT AND ITS REMOVAL
2 Thessalonians 2:6 (R.V.)
CHRIST cannot come, the Apostle has told us, until the falling away
has first come, and the man of sin been revealed. In the verse...
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γὰρ, explaining οἴδατε. The κατέχων is a fact of
present experience and observation, which accounts for the
ἀνομία being as yet a μυστήριον, operating secretly,
and not an ἀποκάλυψις. Paul does not sa...
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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...
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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...
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THE COMING AND POWER OF THE LAWLESS ONE
The lawless spirit was probably called a mystery because it was not
practiced in the open in its early stages. The "he" who prevented
lawlessness from spreading...
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(6) For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: (7) only he who now
(h) letteth [will let], until he be taken out of the way.
(6) Even in the apostles time the first foundations of the apostolic
s...
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The mystery of iniquity already worketh, [8] or is now wrought, by the
precursors of antichrist; i.e. by infidels and heretics. For, as St.
John says, there are many antichrists, precursors to the gre...
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(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...
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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...
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7_. The mystery of iniquity_. This is opposed to _revelation; _for as
Satan had not yet gathered so much strength, as that Antichrist could
openly oppress the Church, he says that he is carrying on se...
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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...
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FOR THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY DOTH ALREADY WORK,.... Or "the mystery of
that wicked one", as the Syriac; meaning either antichrist himself,
and the spirit of antichrist, which were already in the world,...
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For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth
_will let_, until he be taken out of the way.
Ver. 7. _For the mystery of iniquity_] Policy palliated with the name
of piety; di...
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2 Thes. 2:7. "For the mystery of iniquity doth already work." As
_Christianity_, or the scheme for setting up the kingdom of God, and
advancing his glory and the salvation of men, by _Christ_, is call...
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_For the mystery of iniquity_ There is a mystery of iniquity as well
as of godliness, the one in direct opposition to the other. The
expression, _a mystery_, in the Scripture sense of it, is something...
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THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY; that ambitious, proud, covetous, and
domineering spirit, which the popes afterwards exhibited in assuming
to be lords temporal and spiritual.
HE WHO NOW LETTETH; the Roman go...
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FOR THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY DOTH ALREADY WORK; ONLY HE WHO NOW LETTETH
WILL LET, UNTIL HE BE TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY....
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The revelation of the mystery of iniquity:...
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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...
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This "mystery" was already at work. Mystery refers to that which is
concealed, hidden. This hidden, under the surface work, was now
becomeing visible. Still mostly hidden, but enought was known about...
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“FOR THE MYSTERY OF LAWLESSNESS DOTH ALREADY WORK: ONLY THERE IS ONE
THAT RESTRAINETH NOW, UNTIL HE BE TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY”
“For the mystery of lawlessness doth already work”: “The hidden
activity o...
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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...
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FOR THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY DOTH ALREADY WORK; the way was prepared by
degrees for the man of sin, before he came actually to be revealed, or
constituted in his complete existence; and this was by the...
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For the mystery of lawlessness doth already work: only there is one
that restraineth now, until he be taken out of the way. [In verse 6 we
have a thing ("that which") restraining the person of antichr...
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Lactantius Divine Institutes Book VII
And-my mind dreads to relate it, but I will relate it, because it is
about to happen-the cause of this desolation and confusion will be
this; because the Roman n...
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2 Thessalonians 2:7 For G1063 mystery G3466 lawlessness G458 is G1754
already G2235 work G1754 (G5731) only...
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‘And now you know that which restrains, to the end that he might be
revealed in his own season. For the mystery of lawlessness already
works, only there is one who restrains who will be taken out of t...
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_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...
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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...
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2 Thessalonians 2:7. FOR THE MYSTERY OF LAWLESSNESS DOTH ALREADY WORK.
The wickedness which is finally to culminate in an individual, and in
an open undisguised manner, already works in a hidden, myst...
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FOR THE MYSTERY OF LAWLESSNESS DOTH ALREADY WORK
(το γαρ μυστηριον ηδη ενεργειτα της
ανομιας). See 1 Thessalonians 2:13 for ενεργειτα. The
genitive της ανομιας (lawlessness) describes το
μυστηριον ...
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MYSTERY
(_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 13:11). _...
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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'...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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YET THERE IS SOMETHING THAT KEEPS THIS FROM HAPPENING NOW. They knew
what it is [or was], because Paul had told them. _Johnson_ thinks
[along with many of the Christian fathers] that the _"something"_...
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_And now ye know what withholdeth _
THE RESTRAINING POWER AND ITS WITHDRAWAL
I. What is this restraining power?
1. The explanation, now so difficult, was no difficulty to the
Thessalonians. They kn...
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_For the mystery of iniquity doth already work _
LAWLESSNESS AND THE LAWLESS ONE
St.
Paul has been telling the Thessalonians that there is much to be done
in the world before things will be ripe for...
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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...
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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
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 John 2:18; 1 John 4:3; 1 Timothy 3:16; 2 Thessalonians 2:6;...
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Mystery of iniquity [μ υ σ τ η ρ ι ο ν τ η ς α ν ο μ
ι α ς]. Better, of lawlessness. The phrase is unique in N. T. and o
LXX Mystery is found in various combinations, as mystery of the
kingdom of heav...
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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...
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He will surely be revealed; for the mystery — The deep, secret power
of iniquity, just opposite to the power of godliness, already worketh.
It began with the love of honour, and the desire of power; a...
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That is, the beginnings of Antichristianity are secretly and
mysteriously already working, which will bring Antichrist himself
forth in time, even Antichristian doctrines, and the affecting of
Antichr...