2 Thessalonians 2:5

Text (2 Thessalonians 2:5)

5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

Translation and Paraphrase

5.

Don-'t you remember (how) that when I was still with you, I kept telling you these (very) things?

Notes (2 Thessalonians 2:5)

1.

This little verse has surely been included in the sacred Scriptures to blast forever out of existence any idea that Paul at one time said that the Lord was going to come very quickly, and then that he later decided that the Lord was not going to come for a long time.

2.

It is a serious thing to charge that Paul changed his mind and wrote one teaching in one place in his letters and another teaching in another place. If Paul changed his mind, he could not have been writing a message that God revealed to him. For God does not change. Malachi 3:6. If Paul did not write the message that Christ revealed to him, then much of our Christian faith rests on nothing but the quicksand of human wisdom. For much of our Christian doctrine rests on the writings of Paul.

3.

While Paul had been with the Thessalonians, he kept telling them these very things about the coming of the man of sin and the falling away. (The imperfect tense here indicates repeated action in the past.)