Scofield's Bible Commentary
2 Thessalonians 2:2
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Verse 2 Thessalonians 2:2. _BE NOT SOON SHAKEN IN MIND_] αποτουνοος. _From the_ _mind_; i.e. that they should retain the persuasion they had of the truths which he had before delivered to them; that t...
THAT YE BE NOT SOON SHAKEN IN MIND - The word here used signifies, properly, to be moved as a wave of the sea, or to be tossed upon the waves, as a vessel is. Then it means to be shaken in any way; se...
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)...
THAT. To the end that. App-104. SOON. quickly. IN. from. App-104. OR. nor. Greek. _mete._ Same as neither and nor, below. BE TROUBLED. Greek. _throeomai._ Elsewhere, Matthew 24:6; Mark 13:7. BY. A...
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...
_that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled_ Lit., TO THE END THAT YE BE NOT QUICKLY SHAKEN FROM YOUR MIND (R. V.): more freely rendered: WE BESEECH YOU … NOT TO LOSE YOUR BALANCE OF MIND UNDE...
§ 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...
2. For ΜΗΔΕ (ΘΡΟΕΙΣΘΑΙ) the T.R., after the Syrian uncials (KLP), has μητε by assimilation to the context. _Per contra_, some Western copies read μηδε for μητε in the sequel. B 37 present the itacisti...
ΕΙΣ (G1519) с артикулированным _inf._ используется для обозначения цели (RWP) или для введения дополнения гл. (Best; МТ, 143). ΤΑΧΈΩΣ (G5030) быстро, поспешно (Lightfoot, Notes), ΣΑΛΕΥΘΉΝΑΙ _aor. pa...
NOW WE BESEECH YOU, BRETHREN, BY THE COMING, &C.— Dr. Heylin has it, _Now, with respect to the coming,_ &c. _and our being assembled with him,—I desire, brethren,_ 2 Thessalonians 2:2 _that you would...
TEXT (2 Thessalonians 2:1-2) 1 NOW WE BESEECH YOU, BRETHREN, TOUCHING THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND OUR GATHERING TOGETHER UNTO HIM; 2 TO THE END THAT YE BE NOT QUICKLY SHAKEN FROM YOUR MI...
That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. SOON - on trifling grounds, readily (Galatians 1...
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...
2:2 mind, (c-8) Or 'shaken from a steady and soberly judging mind.'...
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....
NOT SOON SHAKEN. — The meaning would be clearer if we inserted “so” before “soon,” for it does not mean vaguely that they were for the future not to be lightly shaken, but (as in Galatians 1:6) that t...
CHAPTER 19 THE MAN OF SIN 2 Thessalonians 2:1 (R.V.) IN the first chapter of this Epistle Paul depicted the righteous judgment of God which accompanies the advent of Christ. Its terrors and its glor...
ὡς διʼ ἡμῶν, “purporting to come from us,” goes with ἐπιστολῆς alone, for, while λόγος (Lünemann) might be grouped under it, πνεῦμα cannot. A visionary would claim personal, not borrowed, authority fo...
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...
(2) That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by (b) spirit, nor by (c) word, nor by (d) letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. (2) We must take heed of false prop...
St. Augustine, writing to Hesychium, declareth that no one from the Scripture can be assured of the day, year, or age [century] when the second coming shall be. (ep. lxxx.) Let us attend to what St. A...
(1) В¶ Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, (2) That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by w...
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...
_MYSTERY MET BY FAITH_ ‘The coming of our Lord Jesus Christ … that ye be not soon shaken in mind.’ 2 Thessalonians 2:1 The Apostle is here evidently addressing men who had conceived a wrong opinion...
_THE SECOND COMING_ ‘Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto Him.’ 2 Thessalonians 2:1 When will this ‘gathering’ be? It will be at...
2_That ye be not soon shaken in judgment_. He employs the term _judgment _to denote that settled faith which rests on sound doctrine. Now, by means of that fancy which he rejects, they would have been...
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...
THAT YE BE NOT SOON SHAKEN IN MIND,.... Or "from your mind or sense", as the Vulgate Latin version; or "from the solidity of sense", as the Arabic version; that is, from what they had received in thei...
That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Ver. 2. _That ye be not soon shaken_] Σαλευθηναι (_...
_We beseech you, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ_ As you look for Christ's second coming, and expect comfort from it; or rather _concerning his coming, as_ the preposition υπερ is understood to...
BY SPIRIT; by any pretended revelation from the Spirit of God. AS FROM US; professing to come from us. The apostles did not teach that the day of judgment or the end of the world was near; but that th...
THE MAN OF SIN AND THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY. The coming of Anti-Christ before the end:...
THAT YE BE NOT SOON SHAKEN IN MIND, OR BE TROUBLED, NEITHER BY SPIRIT, NOR BY WORD, NOR BY LETTER AS FROM US, AS THAT THE DAY OF CHRIST IS AT HAND....
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...
There was some misunderstanding about the coming of Christ. NOTE: There is a difference in "misunderstanding" and "false doctrine." Most of the ISSUES that have divided the body of Christ have NOT bee...
“TO THE END THAT YE BE NOT QUICKLY SHAKEN FROM YOUR MIND, NOR YET BE TROUBLED, EITHER BY SPIRIT, OR BY WORD, OR BY EPISTLE AS FROM US, AS THAT THE DAY OF THE LORD IS JUST AT HAND” “To the end”: The p...
1-4 If errors arise among Christians, we should set them right; and good men will be careful to suppress errors which rise from mistaking their words and actions. We have a cunning adversary, who wat...
OLBGrk; THAT YE BE NOT SOON SHAKEN IN MIND; saleuyhnai it is an allusion to the waves of the sea that are tossed with the winds, as false doctrines tend to unsettle the mind, as EPHESIANS 4:14 HEBREWS...
to the end that ye be not quickly shaken from your mind [Shaken is a figurative expression taken from waves agitated by a storm. The minds of the Thessalonians having been instructed by Paul, and havi...
Origen Against Celsus Book III and whether it were already past, and the day of the Lord, whether it were nigh at hand[36]...
2 Thessalonians 2:2 G1519 G5209 not G3361 be G4531 soon G5030 shaken G4531 (G5683) in G575 mind...
‘Now we beg you, brothers and sister, touching the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to him, to the end that you be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor yet be troubled, ei...
2 Thessalonians 2:2. THAT YE BE NOT SOON SHAKEN OUT OF YOUR MIND. Evidently Paul had heard that they had been excited by false impressions about the nearness of the Lord's coming, and had acted as men...
_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...
TO THE END THAT (εις το). One of Paul's favourite idioms for purpose, εις το and the infinitive.YE BE NOT QUICKLY SHAKEN (μη ταχεως σαλευθηνα υμας). First aorist passive infinitive of σαλευω, old...
2 Thessalonians 2:1 I. The first part of this second Epistle aims at widening the view of the Thessalonian converts into the future the future bliss of believers, the future doom of the rebellious. Th...
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...
DO NOT BE SO EASILY CONFUSED. They were not thinking things through with care. OR UPSET BY THE CLAIM. Some had made the claim that the "countdown" for the end of the world had already begun. The Thess...
_That ye be not soon shaken in mind _ A FIRM ANCHORAGE There lies a maritime figure in the word “shaken. ” Wordsworth well paraphrases it. “In order that you may not soon be shaken off from the anch...
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 h...
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...
1 John 4:1; 1 John 4:2; 1 Thessalonians 3:3; 1 Thessalonians 4:15;...
Shaken [σ α λ ε υ θ η ν α ι]. From salov the tossing or swell of the sea. See Luke 21:25. Comp. Matthew 11:7; Matthew 24:29; Acts 4:31;...
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...
Be not shaken in mind — In judgment. Or terrified — As those easily are who are immoderately fond of knowing future things. Neither by any pretended revelation from the Spirit, nor by pretence of any...
Note here, 1. The error which the apostle disproves, namely that the day of Christ, that is, the day of judgment, was then at hand, to come in. few years; which was very true with respect to his comin...