What does 2 Thessalonians 2:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,a"
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...
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,...
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...
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 t...
_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...
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...
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). ΈΠΙΣΥΝΑΓΩΓΉ (G1909) встреч...
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...
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...
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....
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. W...
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...
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...
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),...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
BY THE COMING OF OUR LORD; rather, in respect to the coming of our Lord, of which he had just spoken....
NOW WE BESEECH YOU, BRETHREN, BY THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST AND BY OUR GATHERING TOGETHER UNTO HIM...
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 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...
“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...
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; 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...
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...
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...
2 Thessalonians 2:1 Now G1161 brethren G80 concerning G5228 coming G3952 our G2257 Lord G2962 Jesus G2424 Christ G5547 and G2532 our G2257 together G1997 to G1909 Him G846 ask G2065 (G5719) you G5209...
‘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...
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...
TOUCHING THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST (υπερ της παρουσιας του Κυριου (ημων) Ιησου Χριστου). For ερωτωμεν, to beseech, see on 1 Thessalonians 4:1; 1 Thessalonians 4:12. Hυπερ originally meant...
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...
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 wi...
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...
CONCERNING THE COMING. He had written about this in his first letter to them. See the introduction to First Thessalonians....
_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...
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 1 Thessalonians 5:1 he resp...
_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...
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 suppose...
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 3:13; 1 Thessalonians 4:14; 1 Thessalonians 4:17; 2 Timothy 4:1; Ephesians 1:10; Genesis 49:10; Mark 13:27; Matthew 24:31; Matthew 25:32;...
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 Heb...
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 chu...
Our gathering together to him — In the clouds....
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...