With all deceit of unrighteousness (εν παση απατη αδικιας). This pastmaster of trickery will have at his command all the energy an…

And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness. There are two ideas here. The first is that there would be deceit; and the other …

EXCURSUS ON THE INTERPRETATION OF THE PROPHECY, 2 Thessalonians 2:3–12

To deal fairly with this difficult passa…

Only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with th…

(10a) That Satan is the root of the lawless one’s deception is explicit in a further elaboration. The word for “work” (GK 1918) is reserved for sup…

In those that perish. He limits the power of Satan, as unable to injure the elect of God, just as Christ also exempts them from this dange…

And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness
Not that he deceives, or goes about to deceive, or thinks to deceive by open un…

Something hindered or withheld the man of sin. It is supposed to be the power of the Roman Empire, which the apostle did not mention more plainly a…

1. Above, the Apostle foretold the coming and the wrongdoing of the Antichrist; here he explains the reason for its delay.

   1. He s…