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Thessalonians, 2nd","Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\nfrom etext #1581 prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia\nand Tad Book, student, Pontifical North American College, Rome.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY BIBLE\n\n\n\n\nTranslated from the Latin Vulgate\n\n\nDiligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,\nand Other Editions in Divers Languages\n\n\nTHE OLD TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Douay\nA.D. 1609 & 1610\n\nand\n\nTHE NEW TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Rheims\nA.D. 1582\n\n\nWith Annotations\n\n\nThe Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with\nthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner\nA.D. 1749-1752\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS\n\nIn this Epistle St. Paul admonishes the Thessalonians to be constant in\nthe faith of Christ and not to be terrified by the insinuations of false\nteachers telling them that the day of judgment was near at hand, as\nthere must come many signs and wonders before it. He bids them to hold\nfirm the traditions received from him, whether by word, or by epistle,\nand shews them how they may be certain of his letters by the manner he\nwrites.\n\n\n2 Thessalonians Chapter 1\n\nHe gives thanks to God for their faith and constancy and prays for their\nadvancement in all good.\n\n1:1. Paul and Sylvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians.\nIn God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,\n\n1:2. Grace unto you: and peace from God our Father and from the Lord\nJesus Christ.\n\n1:3. We are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, as it\nis fitting, because your faith groweth exceedingly and the charity of\nevery one of you towards each other aboundeth.\n\n1:4. So that we ourselves also glory in you in the churches of God, for\nyour patience and faith, and in all your persecutions and tribulations:\nwhich you endure\n\n1:5. For an example of the just judgment of God, that you may be counted\nworthy of the kingdom of God, for which also you suffer.\n\n1:6. Seeing it is a just thing with God to repay tribulation to them\nthat trouble you:\n\n1:7. And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus\nshall be revealed from heaven with the angels of his power:\n\n1:8. In a flame of fire, giving vengeance to them who know not God and\nwho obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n1:9. Who shall suffer eternal punishment in destruction, from the face\nof the Lord and from the glory of his power:\n\n1:10. When he shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be made\nwonderful in all them who have believed; because our testimony was\nbelieved upon you in that day.\n\n1:11. Wherefore also we pray always for you: That our God would make you\nworthy of his vocation and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness\nand the work of faith in power:\n\n1:12. That the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you\nin him, according to the grace of our God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n2 Thessalonians Chapter 2\n\nThe day of the Lord is not to come till the man of sin be revealed. The\napostle's traditions are to be observed.\n\n2:1. And we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus\nChrist and of our gathering together unto him:\n\n2:2. That you be not easily moved from your sense nor be terrified,\nneither by spirit nor by word nor by epistle as sent from us, as if the\nday of the Lord were at hand.\n\n2:3. Let no man deceive you by any means: for unless there come a revolt\nfirst, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition\n\nA revolt... This revolt, or falling off, is generally understood, by the\nancient fathers, of a revolt from the Roman empire, which was first to\nbe destroyed, before the coming of Antichrist. It may, perhaps, be\nunderstood also of a revolt of many nations from the Catholic Church;\nwhich has, in part, happened already, by means of Mahomet, Luther, &c.,\nand it may be supposed, will be more general in the days of the\nAntichrist. The man of sin...  Here must be meant some particular man,\nas is evident from the frequent repetition of the Greek article [ ], the\nman of sin, the son of perdition, the adversary or opposer. It agrees to\nthe wicked and great Antichrist, who will come before the end of the\nworld.\n\n2:4. Who opposeth and is lifted up above all that is called God or that\nis worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself\nas if he were God.\n\nIn the temple... Either that of Jerusalem which some think he will\nrebuild; or in some Christian church, which he will pervert to his own\nworship: as Mahomet has done by the churches of the east.\n\n2:5. Remember you not that, when I was yet with you, I told you these\nthings?\n\n2:6. And now you know what withholdeth, that he may be revealed in his\ntime.\n\n2:7. For the mystery of iniquity already worketh: only that he who now\nholdeth do hold, until he be taken out of the way.\n\n2:8. And then that wicked one shall be revealed: whom the Lord Jesus\nshall kill with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the\nbrightness of his coming: him\n\n2:9. Whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power and\nsigns and lying wonders:\n\n2:10. And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish: because they\nreceive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Therefore\nGod shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying:\n\nGod shall send...  That is God shall suffer them to be deceived by lying\nwonders, and false miracles, in punishment of their not entertaining the\nlove of truth.\n\n2:11. That all may be judged who have not believed the truth but have\nconsented to iniquity.\n\n2:12. But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren,\nbeloved of God, for that God hath chosen you firstfruits unto salvation,\nin sanctification of the spirit and faith of the truth:\n\n2:13. Whereunto also he hath called you by our gospel, unto the\npurchasing of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n2:14. Therefore, brethren, stand fast: and hold the traditions, which\nyou have learned, whether by word or by our epistle.\n\nTraditions... See here that the unwritten traditions are no less to be\nreceived than their epistles.\n\n2:15. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God and our Father, who\nhath loved us and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope in\ngrace,\n\n2:16. Exhort your hearts and confirm you in every good work and word.\n\n2 Thessalonians Chapter 3\n\nHe begs their prayers and warns them against idleness.\n\n3:1. For the rest, brethren, pray for us that the word of God may run\nand may be glorified, even as among you:\n\nMay run... That is, may spread itself, and have free course.\n\n3:2. And that we may be delivered from importunate and evil men: for all\nmen have not faith.\n\n3:3. But God is faithful, who will strengthen and keep you from evil.\n\n3:4. And we have confidence concerning you in the Lord that the things\nwhich we command, you both do and will do.\n\n3:5. And the Lord direct your hearts, in the charity of God and the\npatience of Christ.\n\n3:6. And we charge you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,\nthat you withdraw yourselves from every brother walking disorderly and\nnot according to the tradition which they have received of us.\n\n3:7. For yourselves know how you ought to imitate us. For we were not\ndisorderly among you.\n\n3:8. Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing: but in labour and\nin toil we worked night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of\nyou.\n\n3:9. Not as if we had not power: but that we might give ourselves a\npattern unto you, to imitate us.\n\n3:10. For also, when we were with you, this we declared to you: that, if\nany man will not work, neither let him eat.\n\n3:11. For we have heard there are some among you who walk disorderly:\nworking not at all, but curiously meddling.\n\n3:12. Now we charge them that are such and beseech them by the Lord\nJesus Christ that, working with silence, they would eat their own bread.\n\n3:13. But you, brethren, be not weary in well doing.\n\n3:14. And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man\nand do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed.\n\n3:15. Yet do not esteem him as an enemy but admonish him as a brother.\n\n3:16. Now the Lord of peace himself give you everlasting peace in every\nplace. The Lord be with you all.\n\n3:17. The salutation of Paul with my own hand: which is the sign in\nevery epistle. So I write.\n\n3:18. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 60: 2 Thessalonians: The Challoner Revision","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":1534}