2 Thessalonians 2:6

And now you know what withholdeth, that he may be revealed in his time.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5Remember you not, that when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

7For the mystery of iniquity already worketh; only that he who now holdeth, do hold, until he be taken out of the way.

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Cross References

2 Thessalonians 2:8And then that wicked one shall be revealed whom the Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of his mouth; and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming, him,

Matthew Henry on 2 Thessalonians 2:2-13

Cautions against False Alarm. ( a. d. 52.) 1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3 Let no man deceive you by any means— From these words it appears that some among the Thessalonians had mistaken the apostle's meaning, in what he had written in his former epistle about the coming of Christ, by… Read the whole commentary →

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