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2 Thessalonians 2:1
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we: Romans 12:1
by the: 1 Thessalonians 4:14-16
and by: Genesis 49:10, Matthew 24:31, Matthew 25:32, Mark 13:27, Ephesians 1:10, 1 Thessalonians 3:13, 1 Thessalonians 4:17, 2 Timothy 4:1
Reciprocal: Psalms 50:5 - Gather Luke 19:11 - they thought John 14:3 - I will 1 Corinthians 1:10 - by the 1 Thessalonians 2:19 - in 1 Timothy 6:14 - until Hebrews 9:28 - he appear
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In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
In the beginning God created the sky and the earth.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth.
In the bigynnyng God made of nouyt heuene and erthe.
In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth --
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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 writing it, and that is, to set the doctrine of Christ's coming, as to the time of it, in its proper light; and this is occasioned by what he had said concerning it in the former epistle, which was either misunderstood or misrepresented; and as he addresses the saints with a very affectionate appellation as his "brethren", so by way of entreaty "beseeching", and yet in a very solemn manner:
by the coming of our Lord Jesus: which is to be understood not of the coming of Christ in the flesh, to procure the salvation of his people; nor of his coming in his kingdom and power to take vengeance on the Jewish nation, for their rejection of him as the Messiah; but of his coming to judge the quick and dead, than which nothing is more sure and certain, being affirmed by angels and men, by prophets and apostles, and by Christ himself, or more desirable by the saints; wherefore the apostle entreats them by it, that whereas they believed it, expected it, and wished for it, they would regard what he was about to say: so that the words, though an entreaty, are in the form of an adjuration; unless they should be rendered as in the Ethiopic version, as they may, "concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ"; and so express subject matter of the discourse now entering upon, with what follows:
and by our gathering together unto him; which regards not the great gatherings of the people to Christ the true Shiloh upon his first coming, and the preaching of the Gospel to both Jews and Gentiles, when there were not only great flockings to hear it, but multitudes were converted by it; nor the greater gatherings there will be in the latter day, at the time of the conversion of the Jews, and when the fulness of the Gentiles shall be brought in; nor the conversion of particular persons, who are gathered in to Christ, and received by him one by one; nor the assembling of the saints together for public worship, in which sense the word is used in Hebrews 10:25 but the gathering together of all the saints at the last day, at the second coming of Christ; for he will come with ten thousand of his saints, yea, with all his saints, when their dead bodies shall be raised and reunited to their souls, and they with the living saints will be caught up into the air, to meet the Lord there and be ever with him; when they will make up, complete and perfect, the general assembly and church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven: this will be the gathering together of all the elect of God; and so the Arabic version reads, "the gathering of us all"; and which, as it is certain, is greatly to be desired; it will be a happy meeting and a glorious sight; by this the apostle entreats and adjures them to regard what follows.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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, if it ever occurs, in the Scriptures, to make a solemn adjuration in view of an event, and the connection here demands that we give to the phrase a different sense. It means, respecting his coming; and the idea of Paul is: “In regard to that great event of which I spoke to you in my former epistle - the coming of the Saviour - I beseech you not to be troubled, as if it were soon to happen. As his views had been misunderstood or misrepresented, he now proposes to show them that there was nothing in the true doctrine which should create alarm, as if he were about to appear.
And by our gathering together unto him - There is manifest allusion here to what is said in the First Epistle 1 Thessalonians 4:17, “then we shall be caught up together with them in the clouds;” and the meaning is: “in reference to our being gathered unto him, I beseech you not to be shaken in mind, as if that event were near.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER II.
He exhorts the Thessalonians to stand fast in the faith, and
not to be alarmed at the rumours they heard concerning the
sudden coming of Christ, 1, 2.
Because, previously to this coming, there would be a great
apostasy from the true faith, and a manifestation of a son of
perdition, of whose unparalleled presumption he gives an awful
description; as well as of his pernicious success among men,
and the means which he would use to deceive and pervert the
world; and particularly those who do not receive the love of
the truth, but have pleasure in unrighteousness, 3-12.
He thanks God for their steadfastness; shows the great
privileges to which they were called; and prays that they may
be comforted and established in every good word and work,
13-17.
NOTES ON CHAP. II.
Verse 2 Thessalonians 2:1. 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, 1 Thessalonians 4:15, c., concerning the day of judgment and were led then to conclude that that day was at hand; and this had produced great confusion in the Church: to correct this mistake, the apostle sent them this second letter, in which he shows that this day must be necessarily distant, because a great work is to be done previously to its appearing.
Of the day of general judgment he had spoken before, and said that it should come as a thief in the night, i.e. when not expected; but he did not attempt to fix the time, nor did he insinuate that it was either near at hand, or far off. Now, however, he shows that it must necessarily be far off, because of the great transactions which must take place before it can come.
