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 an attraction "we beseech you" as those that would not part with it for their lives. The advent, a re... [ Continue Reading ]
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. The second part, embraced in this chapter, seeks to guard them beforehand against delusion as to the n... [ Continue Reading ]
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's meaning? Between these two extremes we may occupy a middle position. I. The theory must be set as... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Thessalonians 2:13 ; 2 THESSALONIANS 3:5 I. The salvation to which the Thessalonians are described as chosen of God is regarded chiefly in the aspect of a present possession, and it is "in (not through) sanctification of the Spirit." The words surely mean spiritual sanctification; an inward proce... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Thessalonians 2:16 Life's Trouble and its True Remedy. I. By Divine will there is a trouble common to man a trouble of life in which all and each may expect some share, and which, at particular times of life, grows very intense. If any one seems to be excepted, such an one might almost fear Divi... [ Continue Reading ]