2 Thessalonians 2:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

2 Thessalonians 2:6 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Thessalonians 2:3
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
2 Thessalonians 2:8
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:

Topics

Antichrist Apostasy

Commentary

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. now ye know--by my having told you. The power must have been one “known” to the Thessalonians. what withholdeth--that which holds him back; “keeps him in check”: the power that has restrained the man of sin from his full and final development, is the moral and conservative influence of political states [Olshausen]: the fabric of human polity as a coercive power; as “he who now letteth” refers t…