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2 Thessalonians 2:10
and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish, because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved.
and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish, because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved.
Verse 10. _AND WITH ALL DECEIVABLENESS OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS_] With every art that cunning can invent and unrighteousness suggest, in order to delude and deceive. _IN THEM THAT PERISH_] Εν τοις απολλυμ...
AND WITH ALL DECEIVABLENESS OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS - There are two ideas here. The first is, that there would be deceit; and the other is, that it would be for the purpose of promoting unrighteousness or...
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)...
ALL. every. DECEIVABLENESS. (form of) deceit. UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. App-128. IN. The texts omit. Dative case. THEM THAT PERISH. the perishing. See same phrase, 1 Corinthians 1:18; 2 Corinthians 2:15;...
_and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish_ Both reading and rendering need to be amended; it is rather, AND IN ALL DECEIT OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS FOR THE PERISHING the opposite of...
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...
10. To the Syrian editors appear to be due the article with ΑΔΙΚΙΑΣ, and εν before ΤΟΙΣ ΑΠΟΛΛΥΜΕΝΟΙΣ. D also reads της. Χριστου after ΑΛΗΘΕΙΑΣ, in D*, is an example of Western license....
§ 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...
ΆΠΆΤΗ (G539) _dat. sing._ обман, обольщение. ΑΔΙΚΊΑ (G93) неправедность, нечестивость. Сочетание обмана и неправедности здесь обозначает активную, агрессивную силу (Milligan). ΆΠΟΛΛΥΜΈΝΟΙΣ _praes. m...
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 2:10) 10 AND WITH ALL DECEIT OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS FOR THEM THAT PERISH; BECAUSE THEY RECEIVED NOT THE LOVE OF THE TRUTH, THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED. Translation and Paraphrase 10....
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. DECEIVABLENESS, [ apatee (G539) adikias (G93)] - 'dece...
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...
2:10 all (e-3) 'Every kind or form of.'...
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....
AND WITH ALL DECEIVABLENESS. — “Deceivableness” does not mean “readiness to _be deceived,”_ but, according to old English usage, has an active meaning; the words include and expand the list just given...
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...
ἀγάπη (_cf._ 2 Thessalonians 2:12) here, as Luke 11:42, with obj. gen. _Cf._ _Asc. Isa._, iv. 15, 16: “And He will give rest [above, ch. 2 Thessalonians 1:7] to the godly whom He shall find in the bod...
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...
God shall send them the operation of error. [9] That is, says St. John Chrysostom and St. Cyril, he will permit them to be led away with illusions, by signs, and lying prodigies, which the devil shall...
(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...
10_In those that perish_. He limits the power of Satan, as not being able to injure the elect of God, just as Christ, also, exempts them from this danger. (Matthew 24:24.) From this it appears, that A...
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...
AND WITH ALL DECEIVABLENESS OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS,.... Not that he deceives, or goes about to deceive, or thinks to deceive by open unrighteousness; but by unrighteousness, under a pretence of righteousn...
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Ver. 10. _And with all deceiveableness_] Popery is nothi...
_Him whose coming_ The apostle, in his eagerness to foretel the destruction of the man of sin, having broken in upon his subject, now returns to it again, and describes the other qualifications by whi...
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...
DECEIVABLENESS OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS; all deceitful arts and practices to promote their selfish and unrighteous schemes. IN THEM THAT PERISH; added to show over whom the wicked and lying arts of the man...
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...
All kinds of deception will take place. Like Satan, he will use all kinds of deception on them that perish (lit. "them that are perishing"). He wants to keep the lost, lost. Here the unbeliever is men...
“AND WITH ALL DECEIT OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS FOR THEM THAT PERISH; BECAUSE THEY RECEIVED NOT THE LOVE OF THE TRUTH, THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED” “And with”: In addition to the false miraculous claims. “ALL”:...
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...
AND WITH ALL DECEIVABLENESS OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS; or, deceit of unrighteousness, unrighteous deceit, or deceitful unrighteousness. And it is universal, ALL. It is unrighteousness managed with great subt...
and with all deceit of unrighteousness for them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. [Antichrist comes with lies, to those who love not the truth as...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V And for this reason the apostle says: "Because they received not the love of God, that they might be saved, therefore God shall also send them the operation of error,...
2 Thessalonians 2:10 and G2532 with G1722 all G3956 unrighteous G93 deception G539 among G1722 perish G622 ...
‘Even he whose coming is according to the work of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceit of unrighteousness for those who are perishing, because they received not the lo...
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...
2 Thessalonians 2:10. AND IN ALL DECEITFULNESS OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. This more comprehensive expression is added to complete the description of the deceitfulness of the Man of Sin; he will come and win...
WITH ALL DECEIT OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS (εν παση απατη αδικιας). This pastmaster of trickery will have at his command all the energy and skill of Satan to mislead and deceive. How many illustrations lie...
SAVED (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16). _...
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...
ON THOSE WHO WILL PERISH. Note that this is really not directed against _the faithful believer,_ but the _"nominal church member."_ These are not ignorant of Truth, but they do not love it and welcome...
2 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 2 THESSALONIANS 2:9 THOSE WHO ARE PERISHING. Those who have not believed the gospel. ⇐...
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 Corinthians 1:18; 1 Corinthians 16:22; 1 Thessalonians 2:16; 1 Timothy 2:4;...
Deceivableness of unrighteousness [α π α τ η α δ ι κ ι α ς]. Better deceit of unrighteousness; which is characteristic of unrighteousness and is employed by it....
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...
Because they received not the love of the truth — Therefore God suffered them to fall into that "strong delusion....
Here we have. threefold description given of the subjects of Antichrist's kingdom: they are described, 1. By the ways and means how they are drawn into this apostasy and defection, and that is, WITH A...