2 Thessalonians 2:7
For the mystery of the evil One already beginneth to be operative: and only, if that which now hindereth shall be taken from the midst;
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
6And now, ye know what hindereth his being manifested in his time.
Cross References
Colossians 2:18And let no one wish, by abasing the mind, to bring you under bonds, that ye subject yourselves to the worship of angels; while he is prying into that which he hath not seen, and is vainly inflated in his fleshly mind,
2 Timothy 2:17And their discourse, like an eating cancer, will lay hold upon many. And one of these is Hymeneus, and another Philetus;
1 John 4:3And every spirit which confesseth not that Jesus the Messiah hath come in the flesh, is not of God; but he is of the false Messiah, of whom ye have heard that he cometh, and now is he already in the world.
Revelation 17:7And the Angel said to me, Why dost thou wonder? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast of prey that beareth her, which hath the seven heads and the ten horns.
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 →