5Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
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Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.
Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-12)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 previous to the second coming of Christ; in particular, he tells them there would be, I. A general apostasy, there would come a falling away first , 2 Thess. 2:3. By this apostasy we are not to understand…
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