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CHAPTER II.
_He exhorts the Thessalonians to stand fast in the faith, and_
_not to be alarmed at the rumours they heard concerning the_
_sudden coming of Christ_, 1, 2.
_Because, previously to thi...
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NOW WE BESEECH YOU, BRETHREN, BY THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST -
The phrase “by the coming,” is not here, as our translators seem
to have supposed, a form of solemn adjuration. It is not common,...
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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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BESEECH. App-134.
BY. on behalf of. App-104.
COMING. See 1 Thessalonians 2:19.
LORD. App-98.
JESUS CHRIST. App-98.
GATHERING TOGETHER. Greek. _episunagoge._ Only here and Hebrews 10:25.
Compare th...
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_Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ_
Lit., BUT WE BESEECH YOU, BRETHREN, ON BEHALF OF THE COMING. The
prospect of this Coming has been held out in language of ardent...
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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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1. The first ημων (after ΚΥΡΙΟΥ) is wanting in B and syrhel.
It may have come in from 1 Thessalonians 3:13; 1 Thessalonians 5:23,
&c.: ημων appears slightly to weaken the collocation of
παρουσια του κ...
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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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ΈΡΩΤΏΜΕΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΈΡΩΤΆΩ (G2065)
спрашивать, просить (_см._ обсуждение в
1 Thessalonians 4:1).
ΠΑΡΟΥΣΊΑ (G3952) приход, прибытие (_см._ 1
Thessalonians 3:13).
έπισ
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NOW WE BESEECH YOU, BRETHREN, BY THE COMING, &C.— Dr. Heylin has it,
_Now, with respect to the coming,_ &c. _and our being assembled with
him,—I desire, brethren,_ 2 Thessalonians 2:2 _that you would...
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TEXT (2 Thessalonians 2:1-2)
1 NOW WE BESEECH YOU, BRETHREN, TOUCHING THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS
CHRIST, AND OUR GATHERING TOGETHER UNTO HIM; 2 TO THE END THAT YE BE
NOT QUICKLY SHAKEN FROM YOUR MI...
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Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
and by our gathering together unto him,
NOW - `But:' marking the transition from his prayers for them to
entreaties to them....
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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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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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BRETHREN. — The Apostles have won a hearing for the true Advent
doctrine by their sympathetic treatment of it in the former chapter;
now they soften their correction of the false doctrine by using ten...
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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...
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ἐπισυν., a term whose verb was already in use for the muster of
saints to the messianic reign. σαλ. “get unsettled”. Epictetus
uses ἀποσαλεύεσθαι for the unsettling of the mind by
sophistries (3:25),...
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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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Now (1) we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ, and [by] our (a) gathering together unto him,
(1) The second part of the epistle, containing an excellent prophecy
of the sta...
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And we, &c. Some impostors had taken occasion from St. Paul's first
epistle to the Thessalonians, to teach that the day of judgment was at
hand. The apostle here maintains that it certainly will come,...
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(1) В¶ Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, (2) That ye be not
soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by w...
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CONTENTS
The Apostle forewarns the Church in this Chapter, of a falling away of
Professors. He very awfully describes the coming of Antichrist, before
Christ's appearing. And takes occasion therefrom...
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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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_AROUND WHOM WE GATHER_
‘Our gathering together unto Him.’
2 Thessalonians 2:1
It is that conception, so full of both peace and power, of present
rest and of the energy of an immortal hope, so preg...
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_MYSTERY MET BY FAITH_
‘The coming of our Lord Jesus Christ … that ye be not soon shaken
in mind.’
2 Thessalonians 2:1
The Apostle is here evidently addressing men who had conceived a
wrong opinion...
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_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...
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1_Now I beseech you, by the coming_. It may indeed be read, as I have
noted on the margin, _concerning the coming_, but it suits better to
view it as an earnest entreaty, taken from the subject in han...
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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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NOW WE BESEECH YOU, BRETHREN,.... The apostle having finished his
first design in this epistle, which was to encourage the saints to
patience under sufferings, proceeds to another view he had in writi...
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Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
and _by_ our gathering together unto him,
Ver. 1. _Now we beseech you, brethren_] Christ's spokesmen must be
fair spoken, so wooi...
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_We beseech you, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ_ As you look
for Christ's second coming, and expect comfort from it; or rather
_concerning his coming, as_ the preposition υπερ is understood to...
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BY THE COMING OF OUR LORD; rather, in respect to the coming of our
Lord, of which he had just spoken....
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NOW WE BESEECH YOU, BRETHREN, BY THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST
AND BY OUR GATHERING TOGETHER UNTO HIM...
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THE MAN OF SIN AND THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY.
The coming of Anti-Christ before the end:...
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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 begins a new section. This is not related to chapter one. In ch.
1, the emphasis is on the judgment and the punishment of the wicked.
Ch. 2 is concerned with the coming of the "man of sin." The t...
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“NOW WE BESEECH YOU, BRETHREN, TOUCHING THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS
CHRIST, AND OUR GATHERING TOGETHER UNTO HIM”
“Touching”: “Concerning” (Con). “AND OUR GATHERING TOGETHER
UNTO HIM”: “Our being gat...
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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...
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OLBGrk; 2 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 2 2 THESSALONIANS 2:1 Paul warneth the
Thessalonians against the groundless surmise that the day of Christ
was near at hand, 2 THESSALONIANS 2:3 showing that it would b...
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The section before us expresses the principal object of this Epistle,
which was to correct the misapprehension that the Lord was about to
come at once. Without professing to set forth all the events w...
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Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work; only he who now hinders
must hinder, until he be taken out of the way."[170]
Origen Against Celsus Book VI...
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2 Thessalonians 2:1 Now G1161 brethren G80 concerning G5228 coming
G3952 our G2257 Lord G2962 Jesus G2424 Christ...
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‘Now we beg you, brothers and sister, touching the coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to him, to the end that
you be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor yet be troubled, ei...
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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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2 Thessalonians 2:1. CONCERNING THE COMING. The preposition used by
Paul means perhaps something more than ‘concerning,' and is
equivalent to ‘in explanation or defence of.' The coming of Christ
had b...
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2 Thessalonians 2:1
The Re-gathering of the Saints.
We have now before us the time and the season of which St. Paul speaks
in the text, and we have to observe that he uses it not as a terror
but as a...
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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...
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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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CONCERNING THE COMING. He had written about this in his first letter
to them. See the introduction to First Thessalonians....
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_Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ._
THE COMING OF CHRIST
I. The nature of it. Christ came. He comes. He is to come.
1. He came in the flesh. The long line of pre...
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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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_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 Thessalonians 3:13; 1 Thessalonians 4:14; 1 Thessalonians 4:17; 2
Timothy 4:1;...
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By the coming [υ π ε ρ]. More correctly touching. Comp. Romans
9:27; 2 Corinthians 1:8
. Uper never in N. T. in a formula of swearing.
Gathering together [ε π ι σ υ ν α γ ω γ η ς]. Only here
and Hebr...
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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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Our gathering together to him — In the clouds....
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As if the apostle had said, "Brethern, we beseech you, as you
assuredly expect the coming of Christ, and do love, look, and long
for, that day when it shall go well with you, and Christ will appear
to...