“ And now ye know what withholdethb that he might be revealed in his time. ”
And now ye know what withholdeth - Margin, “holdeth.” The reference is, to something that then operated to constrain or hold back the obvious tendency of things, so that the “man of sin” should n...
And now ye know (g) what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. (g) What hinders and stops.
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...
know . App-132. withholdeth . holds fast. Greek. katecho. See the other occurances of this word, 2 Thessalonians 2:7 ; Matthew 21:38 ; Luke 4:42 ; Luke 8:15 ; Luke 14:9 ; John 5:4 . Acts 2...
6 . And now what withholdeth Τὸ κατέχον means here properly an impediment or occasion of delay. Chrysostom, who thinks that this can only be understood as referring to the Spirit, or to the...
And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. And now ye know what withholdeth - I told you this among other things; I informed you what it was that prevented this man of si...
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...
And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. Now ye know - by my having told you. The power was one 'known' to the Thessalonians. What withholdeth - holds him b...
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 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...
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...
And now ye know what withholdeth ,.... Or hinders the revelation of the man of sin, or antichrist; by which is meant not the Apostle Paul, though he by his ministry was a very great hinderance of th...
And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. Ver. 6. What withholdeth, &c. ] viz. The Roman empire, which had its rise, reign, and ruin, whereupon the popedom was f...
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...
OLBGrk; And now ye know what withholdeth: the apostle it seems had told them, as of his coming, so of what at present withheld the revealing of him. And what this was is difficult to know now, tho...
‘And now you know that which restrains, to the end that he might be revealed in his own season. For the mystery of lawlessness already works, only there is one who restrains who will be taken out of...
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...
And now ye know what withholdeth The restraining power and its withdrawal I. What is this restraining power? 1. The explanation, now so difficult, was no difficulty to the Thessalonians. Th...
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...
The revelation of the mystery of iniquity:
2 Thessalonians 2:3 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:7 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:8
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...
And now ye know — By what I told you when I was with you. That which restraineth — The power of the Roman emperors. When this is taken away, the wicked one will be revealed. In his time — His appoi...