McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries
2 Thessalonians 2:11
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 :
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 :
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...
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...
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)...
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)....
_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 _...
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...
§ 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...
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...
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...
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...
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 2:11-12) 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...
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...
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...
2:11 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...
STRONG DELUSION] better, 'inner working of error.' Those who obstinately refuse the truth at last become incapable of receiving it....
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
(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...
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...
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 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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
AND FOR THIS CAUSE GOD SHALL SEND THEM STRONG DELUSION THAT THEY SHOULD BELIEVE A LIE,...
The revelation of the mystery of iniquity:...
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...
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...
“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...
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 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...
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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‘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...
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...
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...
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...
FOR THIS REASON. Those whom God cannot _convince,_ he _confuses!_ If you _know_ the truth and _will not obey it,_ you are in effect, calling God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit a liar! Compare Isaiah 66:...
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...
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)....
_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 Kings 22:18; 1 Timothy 4:1; 2 Chronicles 18:18; Ezekiel 14:9;...
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...
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...
Therefore God shall send them — That is, judicially permit to come upon them, strong delusion....
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...
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...