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Verse 11. _GOD SHALL SEND THEM STRONG DELUSION_] For this very cause,
that they _would not receive the love of the truth_, but _had_
_pleasure in unrighteousness_, therefore God permits _strong delus...
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AND FOR THIS CAUSE - Because they choose error, or their hearts love
that more than they do truth. The original reason then of their
embracing and adhering to the system was not an arbitrary decree on...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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THE LAWLESS ONE (2 Thessalonians 2:1-12)...
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FOR THIS CAUSE. because of (App-104. 2 Thessalonians 2:2) this.
SEND. App-174.
STRONG DELUSION. a working (2 Thessalonians 2:9) of error (Greek.
_plane,_ as Romans 1:27)....
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_And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion_ Rather SENTS
TO THEM, the present standing for the future by anticipation of the
predicted certainty; or better explained as the statement of _...
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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...
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11. πεμψει in אcDcEKLP, most minn., and the verss. (except am
fu of the Vulgate)—a tame correction of ΠΕΜΠΕΙ (א*ABDGR*GGR
17 67** cattxt, Or Bas Cyr Dam, &c.)—originating perhaps with the
versions.
11...
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§ 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...
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ΔΙΆ ΤΟΎΤΟ (G1223; G3778) по этой причине.
ΠΈΜΠΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΠΈΜΠΩ (G3992)
посылать. _Fut. praes._ подчеркивает
несомненность будущего события,
ΠΛΆΝΗ (G4106) разочарование, ошибка,
ΕΊΣ ис...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they
should believe a lie:
FOR THIS CAUSE - because "they received not the love of the truth;"
the only safeguard against error.
SHALL...
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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...
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2:11 working (d-10) _ Energeia_ . a working in the power of anything.
sends (f-6) The present tense is used here as stating the moral fact;
it is not present as to time. It refers to the time when the...
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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...
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STRONG DELUSION] better, 'inner working of error.' Those who
obstinately refuse the truth at last become incapable of receiving it....
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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....
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AND FOR THIS CAUSE — _i.e._, because they did not care whether
things were true or not. This verse is not a mere repetition of 2
Thessalonians 2:9. _There_ we were told of external dangers which
would...
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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...
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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...
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An echo of the primitive Semitic view (still extant, _cf._ Curtis's
_Prim. Sem. Religion To-Day_, pp. 69 f.), that God may deliberately
lead men astray, or permit them to be fatally infatuated, as a p...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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And for this cause God shall send them (n) strong delusion, that they
should believe a lie:
(n) A most mighty working to deceive them....
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(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...
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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...
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11_The working of delusion_. He means that errors will not merely have
a place, but the wicked will be blinded, so that they will rush
forward to ruin without consideration. For as God enlightens us
i...
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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...
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AND FOR THIS CAUSE GOD SHALL SEND THEM STRONG DELUSION,.... Or
"efficacy of error", which God may be said to send; and the
Alexandrian copy reads, "does send"; because it is not a bare
permission but...
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And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they
should believe a lie:
Ver. 11. _Strong delusion_] Gr. the efficacy of error. As in those at
Genoa, that show the ass's tail whereupon...
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_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...
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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...
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FOR THIS CAUSE; because they hate and reject the truth.
SHALL SEND THEM STRONG DELUSION; permit it in his providence to come
upon them as a righteous judgment for their hatred and rejection of
the tr...
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AND FOR THIS CAUSE GOD SHALL SEND THEM STRONG DELUSION THAT THEY
SHOULD BELIEVE A LIE,...
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The revelation of the mystery of iniquity:...
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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...
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Because they do not love the truth, God sends them a working of error.
(See Romans 1:18; 2 Corinthians 4:4) This is a "strong delusion" sent
from God. God always allows men to choose their own way. Th...
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“AND FOR THIS CAUSE GOD SENDETH THEM. WORKING OF ERROR, THAT THEY
SHOULD BELIEVE. LIE”
“And for this cause”: Because they reject the truth and do not
love what God represents. “GOD SENDETH THEM”: We...
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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...
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AND FOR THIS CAUSE GOD SHALL SEND THEM STRONG DELUSION: we had account
in the former verse of such as are deceived by the man of sin, of
their sin, and here of their punishment. They were first delude...
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And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error [the threefold
working of error mentioned in verse 9], _that they should believe a
lie_ :...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV
Speaking of antichrist, too, he says clearly in the Second to the
Thessalonians: "And for this cause God shall send them the working of
error, that they should belie...
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2 Thessalonians 2:11 And G2532 this G5124 reason G1223 God G2316 send
G3992 (G5692) them G846 strong G175
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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AND FOR THIS REASON GOD SENDETH THEM
(κα δια τουτο πεμπε αυτοις ο θεος).
Futuristic (prophetic) present of the time when the lawless one is
revealed. Here is the definite judicial act of God (Millig...
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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'...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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)....
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Kings 22:18; 1 Timothy 4:1; 2 Chronicles 18:18; Ezekiel 14:9;...
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Strong delusion [ε ν ε ρ γ ε ι α ν π λ α ν η ς]. Rev.,
literally and correctly, a working of error. See on working ver. 9.
The phrase is unique in N. T. It means an active power of misleading.
For pla...
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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...
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Therefore God shall send them — That is, judicially permit to come
upon them, strong delusion....
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How can God send a lie for people to believe and yet not allow liars
in heaven?
PROBLEM: Paul wrote, “And for this reason God will send them strong
delusion, that they should believe the lie” (2 Thess...
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The sin of those who are seduced by Antichrist was mentioned in the
foregoing verse, the judgment of such is here declared in these
verses, which is twofold, delusion in this world, and damnation in t...