2 Thessalonians 2:1 KJV — MannaFest

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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ASV

Now we beseech you, brethren, touching the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto him;

WEB

Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to Him, we ask you, brothers,

YLT

And we ask you, brethren, in regard to the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of our gathering together unto him,

DBT

Now we beg you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him,

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2 Thessalonians — A short follow-up clarifying eschatology. The day of the Lord has not come; the man of lawlessness must first be revealed.

Author: Paul, with Silvanus and Timothy (1:1)
Date: c. AD 51–52, from Corinth — months after 1 Thessalonians

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1 Thessalonians 4:16
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
1 Thessalonians 4:14–17
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
Matthew 24:31
And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Mark 13:27
And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
Hebrews 9:28
So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

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Whatever uncertainty we are at, or whatever mistakes may arise about the time of his coming, his coming itself is certain. This has been the faith and hope of all Christians in all ages of the church; nay, it was the faith and hope of the Old-Testament saints, ever since Enoch the seventh from Adam, who said, Behold, the Lord cometh, &c., Jude 14 .

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Then he proceeds to confute the error he cautioned them against, by telling them of two great events that were antecedent to the coming of Christ--a general apostasy, and the revelation of antichrist, concerning whom the apostle tells them many remarkable things, about his name, his character, his rise, his fall, his reign, and the sin and ruin of his subjects,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The Greek noun is nowhere else found except in Heb 10:25, said of the assembling together of believers for congregational worship. Our instinctive fears of the judgment are dispelled by the thought of being gathered together UNTO HIM ("even as the hen gathereth her chickens under her wings"), which ensures our safety.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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