George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
2 Thessalonians 2:12
That God hath chosen you first-fruits. Called you the first, or before many others, by his eternal decree, to the faith, whilst he hath left others in darkness and infidelity. (Witham)
That God hath chosen you first-fruits. Called you the first, or before many others, by his eternal decree, to the faith, whilst he hath left others in darkness and infidelity. (Witham)
Verse 12. _THAT THEY ALL MIGHT BE DAMNED_] Ἱνα κριθωσι· _So_ _that they may all be condemned who believed not the truth_ when it was proclaimed to them; _but took pleasure in unrighteousness_, prefe...
THAT THEY ALL MIGHT BE DAMNED - The word “damned” we commonly apply now exclusively to future punishment, and it has a harsher signification than the original word; compare the notes, 1 Corinthians 11...
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)...
THAT. In order that. Greek. _hina_. DAMNED. condemned, or judged. App-122. HAD PLEASURE. were well pleased. See Matthew 3:17....
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...
_that they all might be damned who believed not the truth_ THAT THEY MAY BE JUDGED is what the Apostle says. Here is the further, judicial purpose of the great imposture. God intends that men who are...
§ 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...
ΑΠΑΝΤΕΣ, אAG; ΠΑΝΤΕΣ, BDKLP &c. The peculiar force of ἁπαντες does not lie on the surface (see Expos. Note); there was no obvious temptation to copyists to insert the Α-, otherwise rare in N.T. εν is...
ΚΡΙΘΏΣΙΝ _aor. pass. conj. от_ ΚΡΊΝΩ (G2919) судить. Здесь·, "быть осужденным" "быть приговоренным" (Best). _Conj._ ΪΝ выражает цель или результат, ΠΙΣΤΕΎΣΑΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΠΙΣΤΕΎΩ (G4100) в...
DISCOURSE: 2213 PROGRESS OF UNBELIEF 2 Thessalonians 2:11. _For this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the trut...
WHOSE COMING IS AFTER, &C.— The apostle was eager to foretel the destruction of the man of sin; and for this purpose, having broken in upon his subject, he now returns to it again, and describes the o...
TEXT (2 Thessalonians 2:11-12) 11 AND FOR THIS CAUSE GOD SENDETH THEM A WORKING OF ERROR, THAT THEY SHOULD BELIEVE A LIE: 12 THAT THEY ALL MIGHT BE JUDGED WHO BELIEVED NOT THE TRUTH, BUT HAD PLEASURE...
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. THEY ALL MIGHT BE DAMNED - Greek, 'that all,' etc.: the general proposition which applies specially to...
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...
DAMNED] RV 'judged.'...
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....
THAT THEY ALL. — This is God’s purpose in making them believe the lie — “in order that, one and all, they might be judged.” He who desireth not the death of a sinner, now is said actually to lay plans...
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 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...
Like the prophet John half a century later (John 13:2 f.), Paul distinguishes his anti-Christ or antitheistic hero from the Satan whose campaign he executes; but, unlike John, the apostle has nothing...
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 POWER OF THE LAWLESS ONE OVER THE LOST Paul foresaw that the lawless one would especially deceive those who were already in a perishing condition because they did not love God's will enough to obe...
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but (o) had pleasure in unrighteousness. (o) They liked lies so much that they had pleasure in them, which is the greatest madness that may e...
(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...
12_That all may be condemned_. That is, that they may receive the punishment due to their impiety. Thus, those that perish have no just ground to expostulate with God, inasmuch as they have obtained w...
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...
THAT THEY ALL MIGHT BE DAMNED,.... Or judged, discerned and distinguished from true Christians and real believers, or rather that they might be condemned and punished with everlasting destruction from...
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. Ver. 12. _That they all might be damned_] Heresy is the leprosy in the head, Leviticus 13:29, which is u...
_For this cause God shall send them_ That is, shall judicially permit to come upon them; _strong delusion_ The strong working of error in their hearts. From this we learn that, as a punishment of thei...
Satan has had much to do in the rise and progress of popery, and now has much to do in sustaining it, by wars and bloodshed, persecution and cruelty, deceit and falsehood, and by those pretended mirac...
The revelation of the mystery of iniquity:...
THAT THEY ALL MIGHT BE DAMNED WHO BELIEVED NOT THE TRUTH, BUT HAD PLEASURE IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. This was not the first time that the apostle had given the Thessalonian Christians instruction concerning...
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...
They will be judged because the choose not to believe the truth. This shows that: [A] God is not "forcing" them to believe a lie; [B] Gos is just in his action. They had pleasure in rejecting the tr...
“THAT THEY ALL MIGHT BE JUDGED WHO BELIEVED NOT THE TRUTH, BUT HAD PLEASURE IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS” “That they all might be judged who believed not the truth”: The word “judged” here is being used in the...
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...
OLBGrk; THAT THEY ALL MIGHT BE DAMNED, or condemned. The Greek is, judged, but often translated as in the text; the simple verb being taken for the compound: so 1 Thessalonians 3:17 1 Corinthians 11:2...
that they all might be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. [God permits Satan to present lies to those who, because of their love for sin, desire to be deceived (De...
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI " Now, to this we will say, that as many as on account of their perverse interpretation of the things in the law were not a plant of His Father in heaven, were bli...
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‘And for this cause God sends them a working of error that they should believe the lie, that they all might be judged who believed not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.' When men spurn Go...
_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...
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...
2 Thessalonians 2:12. THAT THEY MAY ALL BE JUDGED. Ellicott says: ‘It need scarcely be said that κριθω ͂ σιν is not _per se “_ might be damned,” but simply “might be judged,” the further idea of an un...
THAT THEY ALL MIGHT BE JUDGED (ινα κριθωσιν παντες). First aorist passive subjunctive of κρινω, to sift, to judge, with ινα. Ultimate purpose, almost result, of the preceding obstinate resistance t...
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...
FOR THIS REASON. Those whom God cannot _convince,_ he _confuses!_ If you _know_ the truth and _will not obey it,_ you are in effect, calling God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit a liar! Compare Isaiah 66:...
2 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 2 THESSALONIANS 2:11 GOD SENDS THEM A STRONG DELUSION. As part of his righteous judgment, God lets unbelievers follow the Antichrist (BELIEVE WHAT IS FALSE)....
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 5:9; 2 Peter 2:13; 2 Peter 2:3; 3 John 1:11;...
Might be damned (kriqwsin). More correctly, judged. See on damnation, 1 Timothy 5:12; 1 Timothy 5:35...
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...
That they all may be condemned — That is, the consequence of which will be, that they all will be condemned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness — That is, who believed not...