2 Thessalonians 2:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: ”

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 decr...
2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

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.
2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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 ). believe . Ap...
2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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 enlight...
2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 2213 PROGRESS OF UNBELIEF 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12 . For this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not...
2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: God shall send them strong delusion - For this very cause, that they would not receive the love of the truth, b...
2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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 describe...
2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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....
2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 misunder...
2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

EXCURSUS ON THE INTERPRETATION OF THE PROPHECY, 2 Thessalonians 2:3-12 IN order to deal fairly with this difficult passage, it will be necessary sternly to exclude from our view all other passag...
2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 20 THE RESTRAINT AND ITS REMOVAL 2 Thessalonians 2:6-12 (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...
2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Untroubled by Threatening Rumors 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 The Apostle sets himself to correct certain erroneous impressions which had unsettled the church in Thessalonica. Notice how reverently h...
2 Thessalonians 2:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 Comin...
2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(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 h...
2 Thessalonians 2:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 b...
2 Thessalonians 2:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 whereu...
2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 the...
2 Thessalonians 2:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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 excitemen...
2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Apostasy Foretold. A. D. 52. 3 --For that day shall not come, except there come a falling aw...
2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 del...
2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘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...
2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 astr...
2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Sermon Bible Commentary

2 Thessalonians 2:5-12 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 Ap...
2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

2 Thessalonians 2:1-2 . 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...
2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 t...
2 Thessalonians 2:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
2 Thessalonians 2:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The revelation of the mystery of iniquity:
2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 22:18-22 ; 1 Timothy 4:1 ; 2 Chronicles 18:18-22 ; Ezekiel 14:9 ; Ezekiel 21:29 ; Isaiah 29:9-14 ; Isaiah 44:20 ; Isaiah 6:10 ; Isaiah 6:9 ; Isaiah 66:4 ; Jeremiah 27:10 ; John 12...
2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Second Coming in Thessalonians 2 Thessalonians 2:1-17 INTRODUCTORY WORDS You are, perhaps, aware that the Second Coming of Christ holds a very important place in both of Paul's Epistles to...
2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Therefore God shall send them — That is, judicially permit to come upon them, strong delusion.

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Sermon Bible Commentary

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes