“ Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? ”
Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? - The whole subject of the second coming of the Saviour seems to have constituted an important part of the instructions of...
(5) Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? (5) This prophecy was continually declared to the ancient Church, but it was neglected by those that followed.
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...
5 Do ye not remember? This added no small weight to the doctrine, that they had previously heard it from the mouth of Paul, that they might not think that it had been contrived by him at the...
Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? I told you these things - In several parts of this description of the man of sin, the apostle alludes to a conversation which...
Remember ye not, &c.— The apostle thought it a part of his duty, as he made it a part of his preaching and doctrine, to forewarn his new converts of the grand apostacy that would infest the chu...
Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? Remember ... - confuting those who suppose Paul erred in his first letter as to Christ's immediate coming, and now cor...
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...
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...
Chapter 19 THE MAN OF SIN 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5 (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...
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...
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...
(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...
Remember ye not, that when I was yet with you ,.... At Thessalonica, for the apostle had been there in person, and had preached there with great boldness and success; he had declared the whole couns...
Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? Ver. 5. Remember ye not ] Satan usually hides from us that which should help us. But as the soul should be as it were a ho...
Remember ye not , &c. These things were not asserted now merely to serve the present occasion: the apostle had spoken, yea, and borne a faithful testimony concerning them while he was at Thessal...
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...
Apostasy Foretold. A. D. 52. 3 --For that day shall not come, except there come a falling aw...
The apostle tacitly upbraids them for their forgetfulness. To forget the things that have been taught us, is a great evil: Solomon often cautions against it, Proverbs 3:1 , Proverbs 4:5 ; and it...
‘Do you not remember that when I was with you I told you these things?' How we would love to hear what he had told them, but we do not know, nor do we know its extent. But it seemingly ties up with...
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 2:5-12 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 2:1-2 . 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 2:1 . 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...
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...
Remember ye not that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
1 Thessalonians 2:11 ; 2 Peter 1:15 ; 2 Thessalonians 3:10 ; Acts 20:31 ; Galatians 5:21 ; John 16:4 ; Luke 24:6 ; Luke 24:7 ; Mark 8:18 ; Matthew 16:9
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...