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Now we beg you, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to him,
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Correcting an Alarming Rumor
Commentators agree that Paul's primary goal here is to calm the Thessalonian church. A false teaching had spread, possibly from a misinterpretation of his first letter or even a forged one, suggesting that the Day of the Lord was imminent or had already begun. This caused alarm and confusion, which Paul now seeks to correct by providing a clearer timeline of future events.
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2 Thessalonians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
2 Thessalonians Chapter 2
Analysis of the Chapter
The main object of this chapter is to correct an erroneous impression which had bee…
Touching the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (υπερ της παρουσιας του Κυριου (ημων) Ιησου Χριστου). For ερωτωμεν, to beseech, see o…
19th Century
Anglican
Brothers—The Apostles gained a hearing for the true doctrine of the Advent by their sympathetic treatment of it in the previous ch…
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Baptist
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in min…
The hortatory words “we ask you, brothers” (cf. 1 Thessalonians 5:12) provides a transition from what Paul has been saying about the da…
16th Century
Protestant
Now I beseech you, by the coming. It may indeed be read, as I have noted on the margin, concerning the coming, but it is more fit…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Now we beseech you, brethren The apostle having finished his first design in this epistle, which was to encourage th…
If errors arise among Christians, we should set them right; and good people will be careful to suppress errors that arise from mistaking their word…
13th Century
Catholic
1. Previously, the Apostle taught what will happen in the future regarding the punishments of the wicked and the rewards of the good. Here h…
