mystery
( See Scofield) - (Matthew 13:11).
For the mystery of iniquity - On the meaning of the word mystery, see the notes on Romans 11:25 ; compare 1 Corinthians 2:7 ; Ephesians 1:9 ;...
(6) For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: (7) only he who now (h) letteth [will let], until he be taken out of the way. (6) Even in the apo...
The Misconception of the Parousia. This section forms the heart of the epistle. The previous chapter is merely an introduction, and the following c...
mystery . App-193. iniquity . lawlessness. App-128. work . work actively, as 1 Thessalonians 2:13 . letteth . holds fast. Greek. katecho, a...
7 . The mystery of iniquity. This is opposed to revelation; for as Satan had not yet gathered so much strength, as that Antichrist could op...
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let , until he be taken out of the way. For the mystery of iniquity doth...
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 conver...
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. The mystery of iniquity -...
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 m...
Mystery ] This word in NT. always denotes something once hidden, but now revealed, or soon to be revealed ( 1 Corinthians 4:1 ; Colossians 2:2 ; C...
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...
For. — Logically, the “for” belongs to the clause “he that letteth;” thus:” For, although the mystery is already at work, the wicked one will not b...
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...
Untroubled by Threatening Rumors 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 The Apostle sets himself to correct certain erroneous impressions which had unsettled t...
The apostle now stated clearly the order of events connected with the Second Advent of Jesus. He first announced the distinction between the two thin...
(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...
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work ,.... Or "the mystery of that wicked one", as the Syriac; meaning either antichrist himself, and the s...
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let , until he be taken out of the way. Ver. 7. For the mystery of i...
For the mystery of iniquity There is a mystery of iniquity as well as of godliness, the one in direct opposition to the other. The expression, a m...
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 s...
Apostasy Foretold. A. D. 52. 3 --For that d...
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work; the way was prepared by degrees for the man of sin, before he came actually to be revealed, or const...
‘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 th...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES 2 Thessalonians 2:1 . Beseech … by the coming of our Lord. —The English reader who consults the similar phrase “t...
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, t...
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 no...
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...
And now ye know what withholdeth The restraining power and its withdrawal I. What is this restraining power? 1. The explanation, now so dif...
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work Lawlessness and the lawless one St. Paul has been telling the Thessalonians that there is much...
EXPOSITION CONTENTS .—The apostle now proceeds to the principal object which he had in view in writing this Epistle. The Thessalonians had adop...
The revelation of the mystery of iniquity:
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work; only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
1 John 2:18 ; 1 John 4:3 ; 1 Timothy 3:16 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:6 ; 2 Timothy 2:17 ; 2 Timothy 2:18 ; Acts 20:29 ; Colossians 2:18-23 ; Revela...
The Second Coming in Thessalonians 2 Thessalonians 2:1-17 INTRODUCTORY WORDS You are, perhaps, aware that the Second Coming of Christ holds a...
He will surely be revealed; for the mystery — The deep, secret power of iniquity, just opposite to the power of godliness, already worketh. It bega...
7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.