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and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn`t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
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The Root of Vulnerability
Commentators unanimously agree that people become vulnerable to deception because they first reject the truth. Their perishing is not due to a lack of opportunity, but a willful refusal to embrace the gospel. As the Expositor's Bible Commentary notes, their blindness is "self-imposed" because of a prior refusal to "love the truth and so be saved."
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2 Thessalonians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness. There are two ideas here. The first is that there would be deceit; and the other …
With all deceit of unrighteousness (εν παση απατη αδικιας). This pastmaster of trickery will have at his command all the energy an…
19th Century
Anglican
EXCURSUS ON THE INTERPRETATION OF THE PROPHECY, 2 Thessalonians 2:3–12
To deal fairly with this difficult passa…
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Baptist
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…
16th Century
Protestant
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…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
13th Century
Catholic
Above, the Apostle foretold the coming and the wrongdoing of the Antichrist; here he explains the reason for its delay.
