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"Destruction" Is Not Annihilation
Commentators are clear that "eternal destruction" does not mean annihilation or ceasing to exist. Instead, it describes a state of everlasting ruin and separation from God. Just as believers receive eternal life, those who reject the gospel face an eternal state of punishment, banished from the source of all goodness and joy.
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2 Thessalonians
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Albert Barnes
On 2 Thessalonians 1:9
18th Century
Theologian
Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction. (See Barnes on Matthew 25:41, 46).
The word that is here rendered destructi…
AT Robertson
On 2 Thessalonians 1:9
Who (οιτινες). Qualitative use, such as. Vanishing in papyri though surviving in Paul (1 Corinthians 3:17; [Reference …
Charles Spurgeon
On 2 Thessalonians 1:7–11
19th Century
Preacher
When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that …
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 2 Thessalonians 1:9
The most sobering experience of all will culminate God’s righteous judgment against his enemies: “everlasting destruction [GK 3897],” the price pai…
John Calvin
On 2 Thessalonians 1:9
16th Century
Theologian
Everlasting destruction from the face. He shows, by apposition, the nature of the punishment he had mentioned—destruction without end, and…
John Gill
On 2 Thessalonians 1:9
17th Century
Pastor
Error: Completed but no modernized text found in DB
Matthew Henry
On 2 Thessalonians 1:5–10
17th Century
Minister
Religion, if worth anything, is worth everything; and those who have no religion, or none worth having, or do not know how to value it, cannot find…