And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
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Gill's Exposition
And now ye know what withholdeth,.... Or hinders the revelation of the man of sin, or antichrist; by which is meant not the Apostle Paul, though he by his ministry was a very great hinderance of the…
Barnes' Notes
And now ye know what withholdeth - Margin, “holdeth.” The reference is, to something that then operated to constrain or hold back the obvious tendency of things, so that the “man of sin” should not at…
Adam Clarke
And now ye know what withholdeth - I told you this among other things; I informed you what it was that prevented this man of sin, this son of perdition, from revealing himself fully.
In these words the apostle confutes the error against which he had cautioned them, and gives the reasons why they should not expect the coming of Christ as just at hand. There were several events…
Cambridge Bible
And now ye know After this allusion: "now that yon call to mind what I used to say about the final struggle with the powers of evil, that will precede Christ's coming."
(ye know) what withholdeth…