Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
2 Thessalonians 2:7
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; Ephesians 6:19).
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; Ephesians 6:19).
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...
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;...
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)...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
§ 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...
ΜΥΣΤΉΡΙΟΝ (G3466) тайна, то, что человек может постичь только через божественное откровение (TDNT; ZPEB, 4:327-30; Best), ΕΝΕΡΓΕΊΤΑΙ _praes. ind. med. от_ ΈΝΕΡΓΈΩ (G1754) работать, работать эффективн...
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 2:6-7) 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...
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...
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 *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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
FOR THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY DOTH ALREADY WORK; ONLY HE WHO NOW LETTETH WILL LET, UNTIL HE BE TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY....
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
2 Thessalonians 2:7 For G1063 mystery G3466 lawlessness G458 is G1754 already G2235 work G1754 (G5731) only...
‘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...
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...
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...
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 ...
MYSTERY (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 13:11). _...
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...
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"_...
_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...
_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...
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 John 2:18; 1 John 4:3; 1 Timothy 3:16; 2 Thessalonians 2:6;...
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...
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...
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...
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...