2 Thessalonians 2:2-4
1599 Geneva Bible
2 [a]That ye be not suddenly moved from your mind, nor troubled neither by [b]spirit, nor by [c]word, nor by [d]letter, as it were from us, as though the day of Christ were at hand.
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: [e]for that day shall not come, except there come a departing first, and that [f]that man of sin be disclosed, even the son of perdition.
4 Which is an adversary, and [g]exalteth himself against all that is called God, or that is worshipped: [h]so that he doth sit as God in the Temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
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- 2 Thessalonians 2:2 We must take heed of false prophets, especially in this matter, which go about to deceive, and that for the most part, after three sorts: for either they brag of fained prophetical revelations, or they bring conjectures and reasons of their own, or use counterfeit writings.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:2 By dreams and fables, which men pretend to be spiritual revelations.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:2 Either by word of mouth, or by books written.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:2 Either by forged letters, or falsely glossed upon.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:3 The Apostle foretelleth that before the coming of the Lord, there shall be a throne set up clean contrary to Christ’s glory, wherein that wicked man shall sit, and transfer all things that appertain to God, to himself, and many shall fall away from God to him.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:3 By speaking of one, he pointed out the body of the tyrannous and persecuting Church.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:4 All men know who he is that saith he can shut up heaven and open it at his pleasure, and took upon him to be Lord and master above all Kings and Princes, before whom Kings and Princes fall down and worship, honoring that Antichrist as a god.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:4 He foretelleth that Antichrist, (that is, whosoever he be that shall occupy that seat that falleth away from God) shall not reign without the Church, but in the very bosom of the Church.
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