2 Thessalonians 2:8 BSB

2 Thessalonians 2:8

And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth and annihilate by the majesty of His arrival.

BSB

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ASV

And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of his coming;

KJV

And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

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Commentary

3 voices

Ambrose of Milan

On the Holy Spirit 3.7.44 (397)

We have heard that the Lord Jesus not only judges but also punishes in the Spirit. For neither would he punish Antichrist, whom, as we read, "the Lord Jesus shall slay with the Spirit of his mouth," unless he had already judged him as fit for punishment … but the unity of the divine action remains undivided, since Christ cannot be separated from the Spirit, nor the Spirit act apart from Christ. For the unity of the divine nature cannot be divided.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Whom the Lord shall consume - He shall blast him so, that he shall wither and die away; and this shall be done by the spirit of his mouth - the words of eternal life, the true doctrine of the Gospel of Jesus; this shall be the instrument used to destroy this man of sin: therefore it is evident his death will not be a sudden but a gradual one; because it is by the preaching of the truth that he is to be exposed, overthrown, and finally destroyed.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

He is seized and "cast alive into the take of fire" (Re 19:20). So the world kingdoms, and the kingdom of the beast, give place to that of the Son of man and His saints. The Greek for "destroy" means "abolish" (the same Greek is so translated, 2Ti 1:10); that is, cause every vestige of him to disappear.

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Original language & word study

22 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
τότε	tote	then	G5119 →
ἀποκαλυφθήσεται	apokaluphthēsetai	will be revealed	G601 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
ἄνομος	anomos	lawless [one]	G459 →
ὃν	hon	whom	G3739 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
κύριος	kurios	Lord	G2962 →
Ἰησοῦς	Iēsous	Jesus	G2424 →
ἀνελεῖ	anelei	will execute	G337 →
τῷ	tō	with the	G3588 →
πνεύματι	pneumati	breath	G4151 →
τοῦ	tou	of the	G3588 →
στόματος	stomatos	mouth	G4750 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of Him	G846 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
καταργήσει	katargēsei	will annul	G2673 →
τῇ	tēa	by the	G3588 →
ἐπιφανείᾳ	epiphaneia	appearing	G2015 →
τῆς	tēs	of the	G3588 →
παρουσίας	parousias	coming	G3952 →
αὐτοῦ·	autou	of Him;	G846 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Thessalonians 2:3
Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness—the son of destruction—is revealed.
leads to
- Matthew 24:4–6
  Jesus answered, “See to it that no one deceives you.
- 1 John 2:18
  Children, it is the last hour; and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. This is how we know it is the last hour.
- Ephesians 5:6
  Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
- 1 Timothy 4:1–3
  Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,
- 2 Thessalonians 2:8–10
  And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth and annihilate by the majesty of His arrival.
Through
Revelation 19:15
And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath…
leads to
- Isaiah 63:2–6
  Why are Your clothes red, and Your garments like one who treads the winepress?
- Revelation 1:16
  He held in His right hand seven stars, and a sharp double-edged sword came from His mouth. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.
Through
Revelation 20:10
And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, into which the beast and the false prophet had already been thrown. There they will be tormented day…
leads to
- Matthew 25:41
  Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

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On 2 Thessalonians 2:8

2 Thessalonians: the Study Guide

The Lord Jesus slays him with the breath of His mouth and brings him to nought by the manifestation (epiphaneia) of His coming: Isaiah 11:4's Messianic oracle, fulfilled.

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