{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/vws/th2002.htm","path":"bib/cmt/vws/th2002.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/vws/th2002.htm","text":"Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent, [1886]\nBy the coming (\u1f51\u03c0\u1f72\u03c1)\nMore correctly touching. Comp. Rom 9:27; Co2 1:8. \u1f59\u03c0\u1f72\u03c1 never in N.T. in a formula of swearing.\nGathering together (\u1f10\u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03c5\u03bd\u03b1\u03b3\u03c9\u03b3\u1fc6\u03c2)\nOnly here and Heb 10:25. The verb \u1f10\u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03c5\u03bd\u03ac\u03b3\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd is used, as the noun here, of the Lord's gathering together his elect at his coming. See Mat 24:31; Mar 13:27; comp. 2 Macc. 2:7.\nShaken (\u03c3\u03b1\u03bb\u03b5\u03c5\u03b8\u1fc6\u03bd\u03b1\u03b9)\nFrom \u03c3\u03ac\u03bb\u03bf\u03c2 the tossing or swell of the sea. See Luk 21:25. Comp. Mat 11:7; Mat 24:29; Act 4:31; Heb 12:26.\nIn mind (\u1f00\u03c0\u1f78 \u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u03bd\u03bf\u1f78\u03c2)\nMore correctly, from your mind. \u039d\u03bf\u1fe6\u03c2 signifies the judgment, sober sense. Comp. Co1 14:15, and see on Rom 7:23. They are to \"keep their heads\" under the temptation to fanatical extravagances concerning the Lord's appearing.\nBe troubled (\u03b8\u03c1\u03b5\u1fd6\u03c3\u03b8\u03b1\u03b9)\nFrom \u03b8\u03c1\u03bf\u03cc\u03c2 clamor, tumult. The meaning is be unsettled or thrown into confusion.\nBy spirit (\u03b4\u03b9\u1f70 \u03c0\u03bd\u03b5\u03cd\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2)\nBy prophetic utterances of individuals in Christian assemblies, claiming the authority of divine revelations.\nBy word (\u03b4\u03b9\u1f70 \u03bb\u03cc\u03b3\u03bf\u03c5)\nOral expressions falsely imputed to Paul.\nBy letter as from us (\u03b4\u1f30 \u1f10\u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03bb\u1fc6\u03c2 \u1f61\u03c2 \u03b4\u1f30 \u1f21\u03bc\u1ff6\u03bd)\nConst. as from us with word and letter. The reference is to a letter or letters forged in Paul's name; not to the first Thessalonian Epistle, as misunderstood by the readers.\nAs that (\u1f61\u03c2 \u1f45\u03c4\u03b9)\nIndicating the contents of such communications.\nIs at hand (\u1f10\u03bd\u03ad\u03c3\u03c4\u03b7\u03ba\u03b5\u03bd)\nBetter than Rev. is now present. Lightfoot, happily, is imminent.\nDeceive (\u1f10\u03be\u03b1\u03c0\u03b1\u03c4\u03ae\u03c3\u1fc3)\nBetter beguile; since the word means not only making a false impression, but actually leading astray. Except there come a falling away. Before except insert in translation the day shall not come. Such ellipses are common in Paul.\nFalling away (\u1f00\u03c0\u03bf\u03c3\u03c4\u03b1\u03c3\u03af\u03b1)\nOnly here and Act 21:21. Comp. lxx, Jos 22:22; Ch2 29:19.\nThe man of sin - the son of perdition (\u1f41 \u1f04\u03bd\u03b8\u03c1\u03c9\u03c0\u03bf\u03c2 \u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2 \u1f00\u03bd\u03bf\u03bc\u03af\u03b1\u03c2, \u1f41 \u03c5\u1f31\u1f78\u03c2 \u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2 \u1f00\u03c0\u03c9\u03bb\u03b5\u03af\u03b1\u03c2)\nSee on children of light, Th1 5:5. The phrase man of sin (lawlessness) does not occur elsewhere, either in N.T. or lxx. Son of perdition is found Joh 17:12, olxx: \u03c4\u03ad\u03ba\u03bd\u03b1 \u1f04\u03c0\u03c9\u03bb\u03b5\u03af\u03b1\u03c2 children of perdition (A.V. transgression), Isa 57:4. The man of sin has been thought to refer to Caligula, Titus, Simon Magus, Nero, the Pope of Rome, Luther, Mahomet, etc.\nThat is called God (\u03bb\u03b5\u03b3\u03cc\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03bd \u03b8\u03b5\u1f78\u03bd)\nAbove the true God and the false gods. The opposer claims divine honors for himself.\nThat is worshipped (\u03c3\u03ad\u03b2\u03b1\u03c3\u03bc\u03b1)\nAn object of adoration, including things as well as persons. Only here and Act 17:23 on which see note under devotions.\nTemple of God\nAccording to some, a figure of the Christian Church. Others, the temple of Jerusalem.\nShewing (\u1f00\u03c0\u03bf\u03b4\u03b5\u03b9\u03ba\u03bd\u03cd\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1)\nPublicly asserting divine dignity. Rev. setting himself forth as God.\nWhat withholdeth (\u03c4\u1f78 \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03ad\u03c7\u03bf\u03bd)\nBetter restraineth. The verb means to hold fast, as Luk 8:15 : to hold back, as Luk 4:42. See on Rom 1:18. He refers to some power which hinders the revelation of the man of sin or Antichrist.\nIn his time (\u1f10\u03bd \u03c4\u1ff7 \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9\u03c1\u1ff7)\nBetter, in his own season, Not before his appointed season.\nMystery of iniquity (\u03bc\u03c5\u03c3\u03c4\u03ae\u03c1\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd \u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2 \u1f00\u03bd\u03bf\u03bc\u03af\u03b1\u03c2)\nBetter, of lawlessness. The phrase is unique in N.T. and olxx. Mystery is found in various combinations, as mystery of the kingdom of heaven, Mat 13:11 : of God, Co1 2:1 : of his will, Eph 1:9 : of Christ, Eph 3:4 : of the gospel, Eph 6:19 : of faith, Ti1 3:9 : of godliness, Ti1 3:16 : of the seven stars Rev 1:20 : of the woman, Rev 17:7. A mystery does not lie in the obscurity of a thing, but in its secrecy. It is not in the thing, but envelops it. Applied to a truth, it signifies a truth once hidden but now revealed or to be revealed; a truth which without special revelation would be unknown. It is almost universally found in connection with words signifying publication or revelation. See on Mat 13:11. The mystery of lawlessness is the mass of lawlessness yet hidden, but which is to reveal itself in the person and power of Antichrist. The position of the word is emphatic, emphasizing the concealed character of the evil power.\nOnly (\u03bc\u03cc\u03bd\u03bf\u03bd)\nThe sentence is elliptical: \"only we must wait,\" or \"only it must work in secret, until he that letteth,\" etc. For a similar instance see Gal 2:10. The collocation of A.V. is wrong.\nLetteth (\u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03ad\u03c7\u03c9\u03bd)\nThe same word as restraineth, Th2 2:6. Let is old English for hinder, prevent. Often in Chaucer.\n\"May I him lette of that?\" (prevent him from it).\nTroil. and Cress. ii. 732.\n\"And bothe in love y-like sore they brente (burned)\nThat noon or alle hir (their) frendes might hit lette.\"\nLegend of Good Women, 731.\nSo Shakespeare:\n\"What lets but one may enter?\"\nTwo Gentlemen of Verona, iii. 1.\n\"I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.\"\nHamlet i. 4.\n\"The flesh resisteth the work of the Holy Ghost in our hearts, and lets it.\" - Latimer, Serm.\nConsume (\u1f00\u03bd\u03b5\u03bb\u03b5\u1fd6)\nBetter, slay, as Mat 2:16; Luk 22:2; Act 5:33.\nSpirit (\u03c0\u03bd\u03b5\u03cd\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b9)\nBetter, breath. \u03a0\u03bd\u03b5\u1fe6\u03bc\u03b1, almost always translated spirit, is from \u03c0\u03bd\u03b5\u1fd6\u03bd to breathe or blow. Frequent in class. in this sense. Comp. Joh 3:8; Heb 1:7. lxx, Psa 147:7; Ep. of Jer. 61. Philo says \"the spirit of God signifies, in one sense, the air, the third element; and it is used in this sense in the beginning of Genesis... for air, being light, is born up, and uses water as its basis. In the other sense it is the pure wisdom in which every wise man participates\" (De Gigantibus, 5). See on Rom 8:4.\nShall destroy (\u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1\u03c1\u03b3\u03ae\u03c3\u03b5\u03b9)\nSee on cumbereth, Luk 13:7 and see on make without effect, Rom 3:3.\nWith the brightness (\u03c4\u1fc7 \u1f10\u03c0\u03b9\u03c6\u03b1\u03bd\u03b5\u03af\u1fb3)\nSee on Ti1 6:14. Rev., correctly, manifestation. See lxx, Est 5:1; Amo 5:22; 2 Macc. 2:21; 3 Macc. 2:9. In class. (but late) of deities appearing to a worshipper (Plut. Themistocles, 30): of the sudden appearance of an enemy (Polyb. i. 54, 2): of a manifestation of Providence (Diod. Sic. i. 15): of the heathen gods assuming shape and appearing in order to work mischief (Just. Mart. Apol. i. 5). In N.T. of the parousia. See Ti1 6:14; Ti2 1:10; Ti2 4:1, Ti2 4:8; Tit 2:13. In Ti2 1:10, of Christ's historical manifestation. So \u1f10\u03c0\u03b9\u03c6\u03b1\u03af\u03bd\u03c9, Tit 2:11; Tit 3:4. Only here in Paul.\nComing (\u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03af\u03b1\u03c2)\nOr presence, which is the original meaning. In N.T. with a few exceptions, of the second coming of Christ. The combination manifestation of his presence (only here) appears to emphasize the resistless power of the Son of man, not (as Lightfoot) his splendor and glory. The mere appearing of his presence suffices to destroy his adversary.\nAfter the working of Satan\nThe sense is that the coming of Antichrist proclaims itself to be according to the working of Satan by means of power, signs, etc. \u0395\u03bd\u03ad\u03c1\u03b3\u03b5\u03b9\u03b1 Po. power in exercise, used only of superhuman power. See Col 1:29; Col 2:12.\nSigns and lying wonders (\u03c3\u03b7\u03bc\u03b5\u03af\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03c4\u03ad\u03c1\u03b1\u03c3\u03b9\u03bd \u03c8\u03b5\u03cd\u03b4\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2)\nLit. signs and wonders of a lie. Of a lie characterizes the three words, power, signs, wonders. All bear the stamp of fraud. For signs and wonders see on Mat 24:24, and see on mighty works, Mat 11:20.\nDeceivableness of unrighteousness (\u1f00\u03c0\u03ac\u03c4\u1fc3 \u1f00\u03b4\u03b9\u03ba\u03af\u03b1\u03c2)\nBetter deceit of unrighteousness; which is characteristic of unrighteousness and is employed by it.\nStrong delusion (\u1f10\u03bd\u03ad\u03c1\u03b3\u03b5\u03b9\u03b1\u03bd \u03c0\u03bb\u03ac\u03bd\u03b7\u03c2)\nRev., literally and correctly, a working of error. See on working Th2 2:9. The phrase is unique in N.T. It means an active power of misleading. For \u03c0\u03bb\u03ac\u03bd\u03b7 error which shows itself in action, see on Th1 2:3.\nA lie (\u03c4\u1ff7 \u03c8\u03b5\u03cd\u03b4\u03b5\u03b9)\nProperly, the lie. The article gives the generic sense, falsehood in all its forms. Comp. Joh 8:44; Rom 1:25; Eph 4:25. Comp. the contrast of truth and unrighteousness in Th2 2:12. All wrongdoing has an element of falsity.\nMight be damned (\u03ba\u03c1\u03b9\u03b8\u1ff6\u03c3\u03b9\u03bd)\nMore correctly, judged. See on damnation, Ti1 5:12.\nHath chosen (\u03b5\u1f35\u03bb\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf)\nThe only case in N.T. in which this word is used of God's election. lxx, Deu 26:18, of God's choosing Israel to be his peculiar people. Comp. Phi 1:22; Heb 11:25.\nFrom the beginning (\u1f00\u03c0' \u1f00\u03c1\u03c7\u1fc6\u03c2)\nNot elsewhere in Paul. His usual expressions are \u03c0\u03c1\u1f78 \u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd \u03b1\u1f30\u03ce\u03bd\u03c9\u03bd before the ages (Co1 2:7): \u03c0\u03c1\u1f78 \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1\u03b2\u03bf\u03bb\u1fc6\u03c2 \u03ba\u03cc\u03c3\u03bc\u03bf\u03c5 before the foundation of the world (Eph 1:4): \u1f00\u03c0\u1f78 \u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd \u03b1\u1f30\u03ce\u03bd\u03c9\u03bd from the ages (Eph 3:9). Before eternal times (\u03c0\u03c1\u1f78 \u03c7\u03c1\u03cc\u03bd\u03c9\u03bd \u03b1\u1f30\u03c9\u03bd\u03af\u03c9\u03bd) is found Ti2 1:9; Tit 1:2.\nOur gospel\nSee on Th1 1:5.\nTraditions (\u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1\u03b4\u03cc\u03c3\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2)\nSee on Co1 11:2. Not emphasizing a distinction between written and oral tradition. Tradition, in the scriptural sense, may be either written or oral. It implies on the part of a teacher that he is not expressing his own ideas, but is delivering or handing over (\u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1\u03b4\u03af\u03b4\u03c9\u03bc\u03b9) a message received from some one else. See Co1 11:23. The prominent idea of \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03ac\u03b4\u03bf\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2 is therefore that of an authority external to the teacher. Comp. by word nor by letter, Th2 2:2.\nThrough grace (\u1f10\u03bd \u03c7\u03ac\u03c1\u03b9\u03c4\u03b9)\nBetter, in grace, as the element of God's gift. Const. with hath given, not with hath loved and hath given.","title":"Vincent's Word Studies: 2 Thessalonians: 2 Thessalonians ...","type":"page"}