2 Thessalonians 2:11
Therefore God will send upon them the operation of deception, that they may believe a lie;
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
In Context
12and that they all may be condemned, who believe not the truth, but have pleasure in iniquity.
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 →