even he, whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders [To give full force to the Greek we should here translate "all lying power, all lying signs, all lying wonders." Antichrist shall employ the methods of Satan, and shall prove his claims by false miracles, like those of Jannes and Jambres-- Exodus 7:10-13; 2 Timothy 3:1-8],
Verse 9. _WHOSE COMING IS AFTER THE WORKING OF SATAN_] The operation of God's Spirit sends his messengers; the operation of Satan's spirit sends his emissaries. The one comes κατ' ενεργειαν του Θεου,...
EVEN HIM, WHOSE COMING IS AFTER THE WORKING OF SATAN - Greek, κατ ̓ ἐνέργειαν τοὺ Σατανᾶ kat' energeian tou Satana. According to the energy of Satan; that is, the energetic or efficient operation...
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)...
AFTER. App-104. WORKING. Greek. _energeia._ See 2 Thessalonians 2:7. App-172. POWER... SIGNS... WONDERS. App-176. 2 Thessalonians 1:3; 2 Thessalonians 1:2....
even him, _whose coming is after the working of Satan_ Rather, EVEN HE, WHOSE COMING IS ACCORDING TO THE WORKING OF SATAN (R. V.); for this sentence does not qualify the last clause of 2 Thessalonians...
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...
ΟὙ ἘΣΤῚΝ Ἡ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΊΑ ΚΑΤʼ ἘΝΈΡΓΕΙΑΝ ΤΟΥ͂ ΣΑΤΑΝΑ͂, _whose coming is_ (or _who has his coming) according to Satan’s working_. The παρουσία of the Lord Jesus (2 Thessalonians 2:8 _b_) recalls the παρουσία...
ΚΑΤ' = ΚΑΤΆ (G2596) согласно. Предлог не только указывает на норму, но и обозначает источник или причину чуда (von Dobschiitz). ΕΝΈΡΓΕΙΑ (G1753) действие, эффективная работа. Это слово часто обознача...
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 2:9) 9 _EVEN HE,_ WHOSE COMING IS ACCORDING TO THE WORKING OF SATAN WITH ALL POWER AND SIGNS AND LYING WONDERS, Translation and Paraphrase 9. (This one whom the Lord Jesus sha...
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, WHOSE COMING, [ parousia (G3952), Antichrist's: marking the contrast to the parousia (G3952), 'pers...
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...
2:9 (c-1) i.e. the lawless one's. working (d-7) _ Energeia_ . a working in the power of anything. all (e-11) 'Every kind or form of.'...
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....
EVEN HIM, WHOSE COMING. — The “even him” does not stand in the Greek; and “whose” might, again, be rendered by _for his own,_ or perhaps “though his own.” The purpose of the verses following is not me...
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...
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 COMING AND POWER OF THE LAWLESS ONE The lawless spirit was probably called a mystery because it was not practiced in the open in its early stages. The "he" who prevented lawlessness from spreading...
(9) [Even him], whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and (m) lying wonders, (9) He foretells that Satan will bestow all his might and power, and use all false miracles...
(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...
9_Whose coming _He confirms what he has said by an argument from contraries. For as Antichrist cannot stand otherwise than through the impostures of Satan, he must necessarily vanish as soon as Christ...
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...
EVEN HIM WHOSE COMING IS AFTER THE WORKING OF SATAN,.... That is, as a deceiver, a liar, and a murderer; for such was the working of Satan with our first parents; he seduced Eve, not only by subtlety,...
_Even him_, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, Ver. 9. _After the working of Satan_] Who (as God's ape) works effectually in his and by his agents...
_Him whose coming_ The apostle, in his eagerness to foretel the destruction of the man of sin, having broken in upon his subject, now returns to it again, and describes the other qualifications by whi...
AFTER THE WORKING OF SATAN; by his aid, and like him deceitful, crafty, and wicked. LYING WONDERS; pretending to work miracles when they do not, and the pretence is a lie designed to delude the ignor...
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...
EVEN HIM WHOSE COMING IS AFTER THE WORKING OF SATAN WITH ALL POWER AND SIGNS AND LYING WONDERS,...
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...
This coming is in contrast to the coming of Christ. This coming is according to the working of Satan. He is not Satan. He is working in harmony with Satan and in agreement with Satan."Sings and lying...
“EVEN HE, WHOSE COMING IS ACCORDING TO THE WORKING OF SATAN WITH ALL POWER AND SIGNS AND LYING WONDERS” “Even he”: The man of lawlessness. “ACCORDING TO THE WORKING OF SATAN”: “Will all Satan's influ...
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...
OLBGrk; The apostle still continues his discourse about this man of sin. He had declared whence he arose, and to what height of power, and the manner and place of his exercising it, and what opened hi...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V But whichsoever of the two it is, I want to know why he comes "in all power, and with lying signs and wonders? "[742] Origen Against Celsus Book VI For, far surpas...
2 Thessalonians 2:9 G3739 coming G3952 is G2076 (G5748) according G2596 working G1753 Satan G4567 with G172
‘Even he whose coming is according to the work of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceit of unrighteousness for those who are perishing, because they received not the lo...
2 Thessalonians 2:9. WHOSE COMING. Having by anticipation described the destruction of Antichrist, Paul now gives the characteristics of his coming. ACCORDING TO THE WORKING OF SATAN. The coming of...
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...
WHOSE COMING IS (ου εστιν η παρουσια). Refers to ον in verse 2 Thessalonians 2:8. The Antichrist has his παρουσια also. Deissmann (_Light from the Ancient East_, pp. 374, 378) notes an inscription a...
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...
WITH THE POWER OF SATAN. Satan will work through this Wicked One to fool people. See notes on Revelation 13:11-14. MIRACLES AND FALSE SIGNS AND WONDERS. Things that seem to be from God. This will also...
2 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 2 THESSALONIANS 2:9 THOSE WHO ARE PERISHING. Those who have not believed the gospel. ⇐...
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...
_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...
2 Corinthians 11:14; 2 Corinthians 11:3; 2 Corinthians 4:4; 2 Timothy 3:8;...
After the working of Satan. The sense is that the coming of Antichrist proclaims itself to be according to the working of Satan by means of power, signs, etc. 'Energeia P o. power in exercise, used on...
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...
An account is here given how Antichrist doth acquire and keep up his power in the world: the first and great instrument is Satan; after the working of Satan, is as much as, by the working of Satan, de...