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2 Thessalonians 2:1

2 Thessalonians 2:1
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Now we beseech you, brethren,.... The apostle having finished his first design in this epistle, which was to encourage the saints to patience under sufferings, proceeds to another view he had in…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ - The phrase “by the coming,” is not here, as our translators seem to have supposed, a form of solemn adjuration. It is not common,…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

We beseech you - by the coming of our Lord - It is evident that the Thessalonians, incited by deceived or false teachers, had taken a wrong meaning out of the words of the first epistle, Th1 4:15,…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

2 Thessalonians 2:1-2

From these words it appears that some among the Thessalonians had mistaken the apostle's meaning, in what he had written in his former epistle about the coming of Christ, by thinking that it was near…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

2 Thessalonians 2:1-12

Section III. The Revelation of the Lawless One Ch. 2Th 2:1-12

In this Epistle, as in the former, the specfic object of the letter comes into view at the beginning of the second chapter, so soon as…