2 Thessalonians 2:2

2 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 2 Thessalonians 2:2 The Thessalonians were shaken and alarmed by the false claim that the day of the Lord had already come. Paul did not know the source of the confusion, but he suggests a number of possibilities: a spirit. An alleged prophetic word. a spoken word. A teaching or a sermon. a letter seeming to be from us. Paul seems to have suspected that a letter forged in his name was circulating (see 2 Thessalonians 3:17). the day of the Lord. See notes on Amos 5:18–20; 1 Thessalonians 5:2. Paul seems to teach here, as elsewhere (1 Corinthians 1:8; Philippians 1:10; 1 Thessalonians 5:1; 2 Thessalonians 1:7), that the day of the Lord and Christ’s second coming occur at the same time. They are parts of one event.